Bio

James Kearney is a partner in the Corporate practice group and chairs the firm’s Public Companies subgroup. Jim represents and advises public and private company clients on mergers and acquisitions, public and private debt and equity financings, corporate governance, federal and state securities regulation, periodic reporting to the Securities and Exchange Commission, general business transactions and general corporate matters. Before joining Stoel Rives, Jim worked for a year as a consultant with the Treuhandanstalt Osteuropaberatungsgesellschaft, a private consulting group in Germany that advised on privatization efforts in transition economies. He also worked for two years as an analyst for the U.S. Senate Budget Committee in Washington, D.C.