Jim is the National Head of Retail Investments and Retail Capital Markets for
Lincoln Property Company, and co-founder of the retail investment firm, Paragon
Commercial Group, Lincoln’s west coast retail investment partner.
Jim began his career as a real estate and finance attorney with Latham & Watkins
LLP where he represented developers, equity investors and lenders in capital
structuring, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and entitlements throughout the
United States.
Jim co-founded Paragon in 2009 to capitalize on retail real estate investment
opportunities resulting from the GFC market dislocation. Since that time, Jim has
been honored by the Urban Land Institute as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” land
use and real estate professionals in the United States, by the Los Angeles Business
Journal as one of the top 5 retail real estate professionals in Los Angeles, and
twice recognized by the Los Angeles Times as a Commercial Real Estate Visionary.
Jim currently serves in various industry leadership capacities including the
Executive Committee of the Southern Methodist University Folsom Institute for
Real Estate, Policy Advisory Board for the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban
Economics at UC Berkeley, Executive Committee Board of the USC Gould School
of Law Real Estate Law and Business Forum, immediate past Chairman of the
Urban Land Institute's Small Scale Development Council, and lecturer at the
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and the UC Berkeley
Masters of Real Estate programs.
Jim’s civic involvements include his current service as a Planning Commissioner
for the City of Manhattan Beach, California, as well as a founding donor and
advisor to the SMU Real Estate Impact Fund, a student-driven investment vehicle
focused on impact investing in underserved communities.