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James Stanley Matthews

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Matthews, James Stanley

Biography
Jim’s practice focuses primarily on commercial lending and financial transactions, including energy loans, asset-based loans, and acquisition loans. Jim has experience in the structuring, financing and acquisition of asset-backed portfolios, and regularly represents private equity funds, commercial banks, commercial finance companies, mezzanine funds, borrowers and issuers in connection with a wide variety of commercial lending transactions in the U.S. and Japan, including senior secured and unsecured bank lending, syndicated credit facilities, subordinate lending and asset-backed lending.

Jim currently serves as the Managing Partner of the Tokyo office.


Representative Experience
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  • Representation of administrative agent in connection with $1.1 billion syndicated secured revolving credit facility to a publicly held oil and gas developer
  • Representation of administrative agent in connection with $850 million senior secured credit facility to publicly held oil and gas exploration and production company
  • Representation of an international private equity fund in connection with ¥23.2 billion financing of hotel properties
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Education and Professional Background
  • Emory University School of Law, J.D., 1990
  • Ohio University, M.S.A., 1986
  • Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1983
  • Admitted to practice: Texas, 1990; Japan, 2009 (as a foreign law specialist, gaikokuho jimu bengoshi)
Professional Recognition
  • Recognized in bank lending - South, Legal 500 U.S., 2008
  • The Best Lawyers in America  in financial institutions and transactions law, 2005; in banking law, 2006 - 2009
Activities and Affiliations
  • Member: American Bar Association; Dallas Bar Association; Dallas Association of Young Lawyers; American Chamber of Commerce in Japan


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Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-6241 Japan

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