Jim Seiffert is a Member of the firm based in its Louisville office, where he is a member of the Business & Corporate Services and Tax Service Groups. He has been with Stites & Harbison since 1986 and his practice focuses on venture capital financing, closely held business, taxation, mergers and acquisitions and general business law.

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Practice Areas

Business Services Community Development, Affordable Housing & Headquarters Relocation Corporate General Services Entrepreneurial Services Manufacturing Mergers & Acquisitions Opportunity Zones Taxation

Recent News, Articles & Speaking Engagements

Piercing the Business Entity Veil

speaker, 19th Biennial Business Associations Law Institute, Lexington, KY April 18-19, 2023

IFLR1000 Honors Stites & Harbison and James C. Seiffert in 2022

by staff writer, Attorney At Law Magazine, September 16, 2022

Tax Increment Financing – A Developer's Playbook

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, March 15, 2022

Updating Project Financing Options — Post-Pandemic

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, July 28, 2021

New Markets Tax Credits - How to Go About Getting Your Project "Shovel Ready”

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, April 15, 2021

C-PACE FINANCING: An Uncommon Solution to Project Financing

with James C. Seiffert , Jameson (Jack) M. Seiffert , and Nick Maglasang Vice President-Business Development , and Twain Financial Partners, Stites & Harbison White Paper, March 12, 2021

Real estate veterans partner on West End condo project

with Jameson M. Seiffert, By Marty Finley, Louisville Business First, January 19, 2021

$5 Billion of New Market Tax Credits in Search of High Impact Projects

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, July 2, 2020

SBA Issues Interim Final Rule for Paycheck Protection Program

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, April 7, 2020

Small Businesses Can Take Advantage of the SBA COVID-19 Economic Injury Disaster Loans

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, April 3, 2020

Congress Passes Extension for New Markets Tax Credits Program, Increases Allocation by $1.5 Billion

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, February 18, 2020

Information You Need on the COVID-19 Coronavirus

Stites & Harbison, PLLC, March 2020

IRS Finalizes Opportunity Zones Regulations

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, February 3, 2020

Time to Consider Investments in Operating Businesses in Opportunity Zones

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, November 25, 2019

Global Executive Forum: Foreign Trade Zones, Optimizing Savings and Operations

panelist, presented by World Trade Center Kentucky, April 18, 2019

Structuring a Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund—What You Need to Know

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, February 19, 2019

$3.5 Billion in 2018/2019 New Markets Tax Credits to be Awarded in March 2019

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, February 4, 2019

IRS Issues the Opportunity Zone Regulations; The Race Is On

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison, PLLC, November 14, 2018

Six ways Louisville could attract investors to its Opportunity Zones

Guest Comment, co-author with Gill Holland, Louisville Business First, October 25, 2018

The Opportunity Zone - Do the Math

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, October 23, 2018

A Primer on the Kentucky Opportunity Zones Initiative

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison, PLLC, July 26, 2018

Chapter: Subchapter S Corporations: A General Tax Overview

author, Kentucky Corporate Law, 3d ed. (2018)

New Markets Tax Credits Aid in the Financing of Charter Schools

with Jameson M. Seiffert, Stites & Harbison Client Alert, January 18, 2018

C.I. Agent Solutions owner talks about his decision to sell the business

by Steve Kaufman, Correspondent, Business First of Louisville, August 25, 2017

Learn How New Markets Tax Credits Stimulate Growth

Panel Member, Louisville, Ky., May 24, 2016

Drafting Considerations for Majority Owners of Limited Liability Companies

15th Biennial Business Associations Law Institute, Fiduciary Duties and Member Protections in Business Entity Law, University of Kentucky Continuing Legal Education, March 25, 2015

Risk vs. reward: Attorney says new immigrant investor program has sound footing

Louisville Business First, January 26, 2015

New Market Tax Credits can aid Georgia's Metro and Rural Areas

Daily Report, May 23, 2014

Filling the Gap with New Markets Tax Credit Financing

Stites & Harbison seminar event, December 5, 2013

SAVE THE DATE: The 2013 ACG Mid-South Capital Connection

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, April 17, 2013

Crowdfunding: The preferred financing tool of the internet era?

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, March 11, 2013

Historic Boardwalk Hall - An Attack on Tax Equity Financing

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, February 21, 2013

New Markets Tax Credits: An Innovative Approach to Public/Private Financing

Stites & Harbison Client Alert, February 19, 2013

The EB-5 VISA Program

co-presenter with Adel Elmankabady and Nirupama Kulkami, The HUB Atlanta, February 15, 2012

The EB-5 VISA Program: An Innovative Entrepreneurial Approach to Financing U.S. Economic Growth

EB-5 Visa Immigrant Investor Program, Stites & Harbison, PLLC, July 27, 2011

IC-DISC: Exporting Savings

with Kevin Heyde (Mountjoy Chilton Medley), Stites & Harbison, PLLC, January 19, 2011

Raising the bar on the community benefit standard for non-profit healthcare providers

Medical News, January 2011

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Bar Admissions

Iowa

Kentucky

Memberships

American Bar Association

Kentucky Bar Association

Louisville Bar Association

Community Involvement

University of Louisville Entrepreneurial Council, Member

Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation, Director and Executive Committee

Association of Capital Growth Kentucky, Director

Education

LL.M., Taxation, 1981

University of Miami School of Law

J.D. with high distinction, 1980

University of Louisville

B.A., American History, 1977

Minor in Education

University of Iowa

More Than Stites & Harbison

A widely respected authority on business entities, Mr. Seiffert was co-chair of the 1994, 1996, 1998 and 2000 Kentucky Limited Liability Company Act Committee, which drafted and amended KRS Chapter 275, the Kentucky Limited Liability Company Act. He was also the founding editor of the Innovation Newsletter for the firm. Jim was President of the Kentucky Bar Association Business Law Section in 2006, is a member of the University of Louisville Entrepreneurial Council (2003-present), a director of the Executive Committee for the Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation (2001-present), director of Association of Capital Growth Kentucky and a former member of the executive committee of the Kentucky World Trade Center (2008-20).

Accolades

Martindale-Hubbell^® AV-Preeminent^® Peer Review Rated

Best Lawyers in America^®, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law and Tax Law (2006-23)

Best Lawyers in America^®, Louisville Area Lawyer of the Year for Tax Law (2017, 2022)

Best Lawyers in America^®, Louisville Area Lawyer of the Year for Mergers & Acquisitions (2016)

Kentucky Super Lawyers^® (2008-19, 2023)

Chambers USA, "America's Leading Lawyers for Business," Corporate/M&A (2003-23)

IFLR1000 United States, Highly Regarded in Banking & Finance, Corporate and Mergers & Acquisitions (2020-23)

Louisville Magazine Top Lawyers (2016)

Testimonials

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James Seiffert is noted for the scope of his practice, advising on matters such as venture capital financing and M&A. He also assists with taxation issues.

- Chambers Commentary (USA), 2020

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. . . draws particular acclaim for his strengths in tax matters, with one impressed client saying: 'He is an expert on tax credit transactions. On such transactions with any complexity, James is a go-to!'

- Chambers Commentary (USA), 2016

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. . . excellent results . . .

- Chambers USA

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