James serves as Partner in Wiggin and Dana’s Stamford office where he represents corporate and individual clients in connection with mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, commercial agreements, and other complex corporate transactions and related corporate governance matters. James is also Co-Chair of the Cannabis Practice Group. He advises clients across multiple industries, including manufacturing, retail, pharmaceutical, biotech, cannabis, and several services sectors.
James has experience representing acquirers, issuers, and financial advisors in private and public offerings of equity securities in connection with merger and acquisition transactions. James frequently advises management teams and C-Suite executives in rollover equity, corporate governance and other matters in connection with M&A transactions.
Before joining the firm, James was an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP’s Financial Institutions Group in New York, where he counseled private equity groups, banks, specialty finance firms, insurance companies, and other private and publicly-held regulated financial institutions on mergers, acquisitions, recapitalizations, dispositions of assets and securities, and corporate governance.
James is a member of the oversight committee for the Wiggin Opportunity Initiative, through which the firm provides free legal services to businesses owned by women, minority individuals, and persons of other historically underrepresented groups, as well as a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee.
He received his J.D. cum laude from Temple University Beasley School of Law and his B.A. cum laude from Colgate University.
Education
- Temple University Beasley School of Law (J.D., 2008)
- cum laude
- Colgate University (B.A., 2004)
- cum laude
Bar Admissions
- Connecticut
- New York
