James S.H. Null

Examples of Jamie’s prior firm experience include:

• Represented a California-based lender in various transactions including a $50 million senior secured term loan to an independent cable network and a $61.5 million delayed draw term loan to a specialty trucking and logistics company.
• Advised U.S. real estate investors and developers on real estate-related financings.
• Advised a U.S. and international sports media company and channel on U.S. tax issues and cross-border issues. 
• Advised various family offices on acquisitions and U.S. tax issues.
• Advised and structured a foreign domiciled hospitality fund focused on U.S. and international real estate hospitality projects for non-U.S. investors.
• Advised and structured a foreign domiciled fund focused on U.S. and international real estate projects for non-U.S. investors.
• Advised on the structuring and formation of a U.S. real estate fund for U.S. and non-U.S. investors and subsequent fund acquisitions.
• Advised on the tax and corporate restructuring of $1.5 billion of securitized mortgages for a retail banking company.
• Provided tax advice on the formation of a joint venture between a fine wine merchant and Japanese investors, the subsequent acquisition by the JV of a Swiss company, and the succeeding sale of interests in the JV to unrelated foreign investors.
• Advised on and structured inbound investments for foreign companies with principal places of business and individual residents of India, the United Arab Emirates and Hong Kong.
• Advised on and structured the expansion of U.S. companies’ operations into Russia and India through joint ventures with strategic local partners.
• Advised and structured a pre-packaged bankruptcy for a major real estate developer in New Jersey bankruptcy court.
• Provides ongoing tax structuring and other advice to a major Tri-State Area real estate developer holding approximately $1 billion of real estate assets including in acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures.
• Structured and advised on Dubai investors’ proposed purchase, for resale, of all the units of a branded luxury condominium building for approximately $200 million.
• Created a structure for a private equity-affiliated fund for the acquisition of patents with a view to the exploitation of such patents with minimal taxes in the U.S. and throughout the world.
• Advised on, structured and oversaw more than 13 transactions involving the disposition of real property, collectively valued at more than $550 million, by foreign owners with minimal U.S. income tax effect.
• Counseled on debt and equity restructuring for distressed real estate properties.
• Advised on and structured the acquisition of a student loan consolidation company that has syndicated billions of dollars of loans.
• Structured, negotiated and advised on the operations of a $50 million joint venture entered into with a well-known Hong Kong-based biotechnology company to develop and ultimately exploit a melanoma vaccine.
• Advised Hong Kong and Chinese nationals on inbound U.S. investments and U.S. tax residency issues.
• Restructured a public company with significant operations in China, Hong Kong, Europe and the U.S.
• Structured a U.S. outbound coal investment in China and the Netherlands.