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Jim Escovitz is a shareholder in the Business Services Group of Babst Calland. He has been with the firm since June 1986, shortly after it was founded.
Mr. Escovitz has been providing a broad range of legal services and business advice to clients for more than thirty years. His overall experience gives him perspective with respect to how business transactions tie into other practice groups in the firm so that clients can receive comprehensive and synergistic legal services and practical advice and workable solutions.
His experience includes mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions (including real estate transactions involving environmentally-impaired properties and wetlands mitigation in connection with Marcellus Shale projects) and equity, debt and other financial transactions. He assists clients with the structuring and creation of business entities, including corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, joint ventures and other imaginatively-structured strategic alliances. He handles all aspects of business succession plans, including buy-sell agreements, as well as the resolution of disputes among owners of businesses.
Background
Mr. Escovitz earned his B.S. degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1971 and his J.D. degree, cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1981. He was a member of the editorial staff of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. As a lawyer, he is rated “AV Preeminent” (scoring 5.0 out of 5- the highest rating for legal ability and ethical standards) by the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating System.
Memberships and Affiliations
Mr. Escovitz’s professional memberships and affiliations include the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations, The Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals, The National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, and The Associated General Contractors of America.
Community Involvement
Mr. Escovitz is a member of the Board of Directors of Dollar Energy Fund. In addition, he is involved in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.
Publications/Presentations
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Presenter, “The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and its Impact on Environmental Liabilities.”
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Co-Presenter, “The Establishment of Reserves for Environmental Liabilities post-Sarbanes-Oxley,” to the Society of Women Environmental Professionals in New Jersey.
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Escovitz, James A. “Liability under the Federal Superfund Law of a Parent Corporation for the Hazardous Substance Handling Practices of its Subsidiary,” published in the Corporation, Commercial and Banking Law Section newsletter of the Allegheny County Bar Association.
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Presenter, “Environmental Issues in Acquisition Transactions,” presentations to various County Bar Associations.
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Co-Presenter, “Civil Liability of Corporate Principals and Managers under the Environmental Law,” at Babst Calland’s Environmental Forum.
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Escovitz, James A. “Protection of Confidential Business Information,” published in Business Watch.
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