James G. Dowling Jr.’s practice includes corporate, commercial and real estate transactions. He has developed particular experience in representing automobile dealers, as well as in yacht and aircraft transactions and like kind exchanges.

Jim chairs the firm's Automotive Dealership practice. He has extensive and varied automotive experience having been general counsel to one of the nation's largest dealers for more than 15 years. He also represents a number of local automobile dealers. He has written on the subject of establishing and protecting dealership identity.

Representative Experience

• Represented purchaser in $100,000,000 acquisition of company with multiple locations both owned and leased
• Representation of and general counsel to privately held company with more than $1 billion in annual sales
• Represented borrower in $25,000,000 construction loan for construction of a new facility
• Represented borrower in $125,000,000 loan facility providing for working capital, term loans, real estate financing and floor plan financing
• Represented purchasers and sellers of fixed wing aircraft including Gulfstream, Citation and Lear Jet as well as helicopters
• Represented purchasers in the structuring, construction, purchase and sales of mega yachts measuring between 150 and 260 feet
• Represented purchasers and sellers in the structuring and consummation of many Section 1031 exchange transactions
• Represented lender in $100,000,000 financing facility including working capital, term loan, floor plan financing and real estate financing

Professional Affiliations

• American Bar Association - Committee on Mortgages and Other Debt Financing; Committee on Foreclosures and Related Remedies; Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section; Corporation, Banking and Business Law Section and its Forum Committee on the Construction Industry
• Connecticut Bar Association - Real Estate Law Section
• Association of Commercial Finance Attorneys
• Connecticut Mortgage Bankers Association
• First American Title Insurance Corporation - Connecticut Advisory Board
• National Automobile Dealers Association
• National Association of Dealer Counsel
• Real Estate Finance Association
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