James Kearns
Law company Jones Walker LLP reports that James “Jim” Kearns has actually signed up with the company as unique advice in the Maritime Practice Group in the Washington, D.C., workplace.
Kearns is a skilled maritime lawyer with greater than thirty years of experience standing for a number of kinds of customers, consisting of proprietors, drivers, as well as banks in the acquisition, building and construction, as well as funding of vessels. Kearns consistently counsels customers on the conformity of vessels with Jones Act demands as well as takes care of a range of maritime issues, consisting of building and construction agreements, charters, leveraged lease fundings, acquisitions, as well as sales.
In his years exercising regulation, Kearns has actually stood for the building and construction as well as leveraged lease funding of nearly 1,500 receptacle barges for transferring completely dry mass as well as farming freight along with recommended the acquisition, sale, as well as lease funding of button watercrafts utilized in inland river barge fleets.
Kearns additionally has experience with fundings under the Title XI lending assurance program carried out by the united state Maritime Association
