Bio

James H. Hancock is a partner in Seward & Kissel’s Corporate Finance Group. Jim has practiced at the Firm since 1966, and has been a partner since 1974 and a member of the Firm’s three-person Policy Committee, the principal management committee, since 1998. During his years at the Firm as an associate and his first several years as a partner, Jim was a full time member of the Firm’s Tax Group, focusing on real estate and investment partnerships, project financing, leveraged leasing of aircraft and other equipment and the tax issues of several of the Firm’s global corporate clients. However, during the past twenty years he has spent a greater portion of this time doing transactional work in asset based lending and structured finance and has participated in the development of a wide range of financial products, including rated notes backed by mutual fund distribution fees, aircraft lease based enhanced equipment trust certificates, and the use of revenue share interests to finance closely held businesses, and in the negotiation and documentation of associated transactions. In the course of this practice he has been involved in the organization, capitalization and financing of several businesses formed to provide financial products to the financial community and continues to provide legal services to those businesses in connection with their capital raising, financing and transactional needs. In addition, he continues to represent one of the Firm’s largest institutional clients with its securitization programs.