Jim brings more than 25 years of legal and business experience to Outside GC. As a three-time general counsel, he has led legal functions and driven business development and new market entry for companies operating on five continents. This combination of experience leads Jim to take a practical, results-oriented approach for his clients so business needs are properly balanced with legal risk management.

Jim works with both large, established organizations and small, entrepreneurial companies and regularly handles a broad range of legal matters, including:

• Joint ventures and complex strategic partnerships involving foreign partners
• Commercial agreements
• Employment matters
• Operational and compliance issues
• Marketing and sales
• Intellectual property issues and licensing
• AI governance, including use charters, internal policies, and AI-related contract provisions
• Corporate governance

Jim currently serves as Acting General Counsel of ModusLink Corporation, a market-leading global supply chain management company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Steel Partners Holdings, L.P. He is responsible for all of ModusLink’s legal matters – a function previously staffed by four in-house attorneys. He first held the role from 2016 to 2021 and returned at the company’s request in 2024.

Jim has also worked with a number of the firm’s early-stage technology clients across industries, including cybersecurity and precision medicine.

Prior to joining Outside GC, Jim’s general counsel roles brought him around the world, handling deals in dozens of countries across Africa, Asia-Pacific, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. Jim served as General Counsel and Chief of Business Development and Strategy at Gamelearn, S.L., a Madrid, Spain-headquartered early-stage provider of leading-edge digital learning solutions; General Counsel and Head of International Development for Vistage International, Inc., a membership organization providing CEO and C-level executive development services in sixteen countries; General Counsel of Vsource, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed provider of business process outsourcing services operating throughout Asia-Pacific; and in-house at Teligent, Inc., a publicly traded telecommunications company, as its Director, International Group Business Affairs, as well as at AOL in an international business role.

Jim began his legal career as a corporate associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe (now Orrick) and later joined Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells), where his transactional experience included billions of dollars in equity offerings and mergers and acquisitions by internet, telecommunications, and satellite companies. Jim received his B.A. from Tufts University and his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Born in Hyderabad, India, and raised in Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Iran, Turkey, South Africa, and England, Jim is fascinated by all things international, including travel. Jim claims he has yet to meet an exotic local food that he will not eat, though he does admit that he did not go back for seconds on a few occasions. Jim’s other outside interests are somewhat less brave and include golfing, spending time with his family, and reading mysteries and thrillers, albeit preferably set overseas.