James Lang

Practice Areas

Tax

Energy & Natural Resources

Opportunity Zone Funds

Carbon Capture & Sequestration

Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG)

Career

James O. Lang focuses his tax and corporate project finance practice on tax incentive programs, Qualified Opportunity Zone and Qualified Opportunity Fund financing, tax credits, and related state and federal incentive programs. Jim is closing over $24 billion of Qualified Opportunity Funds and ancillary Qualified Opportunity Zone deployment of funds and has closed or is structuring several billion dollars in tax credit incentivized transactions. Jim and his team have accomplished more than 850 QOZ deployments and more than 400 captive QOF formations for high-net-worth individuals and family offices.

Jim represents funds, investors, lenders, community development entities, and for-profit and not-for-profit project sponsors in complex transactions where capital stacks require enhancement through incentive financing, including Qualified Opportunity Zone incentives, state and federal new markets tax credits, affordable housing and low-income housing tax credits, historic rehabilitation tax credits, and renewable energy tax credits. He works with funds, investors, lenders, project sponsors, and qualifying businesses to structure these tax incentive programs along with ancillary governmental and non-governmental financing programs, including inbound immigration and Visa investment programs, grants, and taxable and tax-exempt bonds. Jim works with clients on developing creative structures designed to increase benefits and ameliorate risks.

Concentrations:

Qualified Opportunity Zones

Qualified Opportunity Funds

Tax credit incentive programs

New Markets Tax Credit Program

Tax exempt organization finance

Real estate development

Operating business expansion

Affordable housing

Project finance

Professional Memberships

Chair, Tampa Bay Economic Development Council, International Committee, 2017-2018

Member, Board of Directors, Junior Achievement of Tampa Bay

Member, American Bar Association

Lead Advisor, Florida New Markets Tax Credits Alliance Legislative Action Committee

Chairman, Legislative Drafting Committee for a Revised Florida New Markets Development Program Act, Florida New Markets Tax Credits Alliance

Member, Hillsborough County Bar Association

Advisor, Sunshine State Low-Income Community Advocacy Coalition, Inc.

Advisor, The Black Farmers Rural Funding Initiative, Inc.

Advisor, The Young Men’s Christian Association of Greater St. Petersburg, Florida

Member, University Club of Tampa

Member, Florida Blue Key

Member, Kiwanis Club, Tampa

Alumnus, Florida Alpha Omega Chapter of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, University of Florida

Personal

Education:

J.D., Florida State University College of Law

B.A., University of Florida

LL.M., University of Florida