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13455 Noel Road, Suite 2200
Dallas, TX 75240
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Indiana University (BS)
Northwestern University
Kellogg School of Management (MBA)
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, Managing Director - Barrier Advisors
Jim has over 25 years in significant business leadership positions with some of the industry’s leading real estate financiers and financial service firms. Throughout his career, Jim has built multi-million dollar growth platforms, repositioned businesses and achieved significant cost savings at Fortune 500 industry leaders including GE Capital, Capital One Financial and Bank of New York. Significant positions include: SVP / Managing Director and founder of GE Capital Real Estate Capital Markets group, and President of BNY Asset Solutions. Jim’s core expertise includes: new business formation and launch, capital markets and structured finance, commercial real estate lending and investing, corporate development and merger integration, turnarounds, debt restructuring and workouts. Specific highlights include:
- Provided corporate restructuring services to a group of term loan lenders ($850+MM credit facility) of a $4B finance company
- Consulted on over $3B in debt workouts / restructurings for real estate developers, notably Lincoln Property Co.
- Firm expert for Kenneth Leventhal for troubled financial institutions and regulatory forbearance agreements and business plans; worked on MeraBank, San Jacinto Savings and several others. Assisted investors evaluate Southwest Plan acquisitions of troubled thrifts
- Ran and turned around BNY Asset Solutions (Bank of New York subsidiary), a $16B servicing platform, which also included oversight of the distressed asset investment and recovery business which delivered 25% IRR to investment banking partner on two distressed loan portfolios. Voting member on special servicing committee for troubled asset resolution for real estate, franchise and business loans.
- Acquisition due diligence on over 15 corporate acquisitions and over $17B in commercial real estate valuations and purchase due diligence.
- Bid on over $8B of distressed commercial real estate loans at GE, Nomura, Heller
- Led Capital One Contract Finance team, which delivered $206MM in annual savings (84% increase over prior year), through outsourcing and major contract with US Postal Service (profiled in CEO magazine).
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