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James E. Carroll
General Corporate and International Practice
Finance and Healthcare Practice
 

 

A partner with O’ Keefe Lyons & Hynes, LLC since 1997, James E. Carroll serves clients in domestic and international corporate financial and securities transactions, including corporate acquisitions, bond transactions, finance, privatization, real estate development and general corporate matters.

Mr. Carroll has been a member of the firm's Executive Committee since 2000. Mr. Carroll was a partner with Altheimer & Gray in Chicago from 1988 to 1997.

In 1991, he was lead counsel during the first privatization in Poland. He was co-chairman from 1989 to 1997 of the International Practice of the Altheimer & Gray law firm, where he supervised opening law offices in Warsaw, Prague, Kiev, Bratislava and Istanbul. He has counseled clients on investments in more than 20 countries.

Mr. Carroll practiced at Antonow & Fink from 1982 to 1988. He became a partner of that firm in 1988.


Publications and Presentations

Tax-Exempt Project Financing: United States; (with Daniel Coyne) January 2001, Center for International Legal Studies, Austria.
Attorneys Practice Guide to Negotiations, 2d Ed., Chapter 44 (with others) Clark Boardman Callaghan, 1995.
International Bank Secrecy, Chapter 36, United States, Sweet and Maxwell, 1993.
Recent Developments in Polish Insurance Law, DePaul Business Law Journal, Spring/Summer 1991.
Various articles published by Stanford, Vanderbilt and DePaul law schools.


Education and Bar Admissions


Mr. Carroll received an LL.M in International Law from Cambridge University in England in 1980 and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in 1982. He received his undergraduate degree (B.A. maxima cum laude) from Loras College, Dubuque, Iowa in 1978. Mr. Carroll has been admitted to the bar of the Supreme Court of the State of Illinois, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court.


Other Professional Activities

Northwestern Journal of International Law and Business, 1981-1982 Adjunct, Northwestern University School of Law, 1995. Board Member of nine different client companies (1995 to present).