James William Smith

Jim's practice experience is extensive and spans the full range of business advisory and transactional law. He regularly counsels companies across diverse industries in a myriad of business matters including company formative matters and capital raising, advising Boards of Directors, senior management, executives and controlling shareholders regarding governance and fiduciary duty matters, compliance with regulatory obligations, ordinary course of business contracts, executive compensation and compensatory plans, financial and lending matters (including private placement of securities), venture capital, private equity and commercial lending matters, taxation, mergers and acquisitions and real estate related matters. A meaningful part of his practice is also devoted to the representation of angel investors, private equity investors and venture capital firms in making investments in business enterprises.

Over his legal career, Jim has served as lead counsel on several significant and widely known business transactions and financings in Arkansas and the surrounding region, some of which were the first of their kind in Arkansas.