James P. Oliver

James P. Oliver focuses his legal practice on corporate law matters. As an attorney in Hahn Loeser’s Business Practice Area, James provides strategic advice to middle market, closely held and family held clients on a wide variety of matters, including corporate transactions, corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, commercial contracts, financings and more. He has been involved in transactions in the health care, food, landfill gas and environmental services, investment advisory, manufacturing, and sports apparel industries. James strives to understand the business goals and objectives of each client and approaches legal issues with these goals and objectives in mind. Clients have described James as having “incredibly shrewd legal judgement while also understanding the commercial impacts of a given point.”

James received his juris doctor from Case Western Reserve School of Law where he was Publisher for the Case Western Reserve Law Review and a member of the Corporate Finance Law Alliance. He also served as an extern to the Honorable Donald C. Nugent of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. While attending Hamilton College, James spent one semester in Washington, D.C. interning at the Public Integrity Section of the United States Department of Justice, which oversees the prosecution of elected and appointed public officials at all levels of government.

A native of Cleveland, Ohio, James attended St. Ignatius High School and continues to be an active alumnus.

Accolades

Representative Experience:

• Represented landfill gas and environmental services consulting business in its sale to a private equity firm.
• Represented independent registered investment advisors in sale of RIA firm to private equity-backed RIA firm
• Represented a manufacturer of high-value industrial equipment and conveyor systems in its sale to a private equity firm.
• Represented company in the healthcare industry in its sale to a private equity firm.
• Represented the purchaser of multiple HVAC companies.
• Represented consultant in the negotiation of a profits interest award arrangement with a national telehealth company.
• Represented a portfolio company of a private equity firm in the sale of assets to a global sports apparel company.
• Represented the purchaser of a prosthetics and orthotics practice.
• Represented a shareholder group in the buyout of a family owned business in the waterworks and valve manufacturing industry.
• Represented a manufacturer and distributor of rigid packing in several acquisitions.
• Represented the purchaser of a dry-cleaning business.
• Represented the seller of a security and logistics business in its sale to a private equity firm.
• Represented large privately held company in multiple refinancings.

• HLP Represents Linden Polyurethane in Sale to Italian Company
  November 27, 2024
• Hahn Loeser Team Completes $170M+ Transaction
  November 04, 2024
• Hahn Loeser Team Assists Institutional Lender with ESOP Financing Transaction
  October 09, 2024
• James Oliver Selected as Smart Business Dealmaker Rising Star
  October 02, 2024
• Hahn Loeser M&A Team Represents Webster Industries, Inc. in Sale of ESOP-Owned Company
  April 22, 2024
• Ohio Super Lawyers® 2024 Honors 28 Hahn Loeser Attorneys, including Two on “Top Lists”
  December 29, 2023
• Hahn Loeser Facilitates The Chas. E. Phipps Company’s Acquisition of Machinery & Tool Rentals
  November 07, 2023
• Hahn Loeser Plays Key Role in Sequoia Financial Group’s Acquisition of Cirrus Wealth Management
  August 18, 2023
• Best Lawyers Recognizes 87 Hahn Loeser Attorneys Across 53 Specialties
  August 17, 2023
• Hahn Loeser Expands Cleveland Office with James P. Oliver
  November 14, 2018

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  Business Owners to Face New Federal Reporting Obligations Under the Corporate Transparency Act in 2024

  November 07, 2023
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  The Corporate Transparency Act to Take Effect: What Business Owners Need to Know

  October 20, 2023