James W Hovis

Practice Areas

Real Estate Finance

Syndicated Lending

Career

A member of the firm’s Financial Services group, Jim Hovis brings years of sophisticated, high-level experience to his finance and capital markets practice. For the majority of his career he managed the Financial Services group and served on the firm’s Management Committee from 1989 through 2015.

He regularly represents national and regional financial institutions in complex financing transactions, including:

Acquisition and leveraged buyout financing

Subordinated debt facilities

Syndicated finance facilities of all types

Lease financings, utilizing both tax and synthetic structures

Complex debt restructurings involving multiple classes of capital