Jim is a retired attorney having been a member of the Oregon and California State Bar organizations for 35 years. In the early portion of his career he was in private law practice, engaged primarily in commercial and business transactions. In 1982 he joined a software company as General Counsel. Several years later he relocated to San Francisco and began managing an affiliated company engaged in investing in early stage software and electronics companies.
In 1995 he moved to Southeast Asia where he joined another affiliated company and was General Counsel and a member of the Executive Board for one of the largest publicly traded companies in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Jim is interested in assisting individuals and companies who might be in the early stages of formation; in a merger/acquisition transaction; general business advising and any issues surrounding intellectual property matters.
Legal services, buying or selling a business, start-up, trademarks