Jim Tynion is a partner with Foley & Lardner LLP, where he is co-chair of the Energy Industry Team. Mr. Tynion is also a member and former chair of the firm's Finance & Financial Institutions Practice, former chair of the Project and Infrastructure Finance Team, and a member of the Transactional & Securities Practice. He represents clients in all aspects of limited recourse project financings in the fields of energy, other infrastructure sectors, and in large-scale industrial financings. Mr. Tynion also has significant experience in equipment leasing and finance.
Mr. Tynion's practice has covered a broad array of financings in several areas. In the energy sector, he has represented lenders, developers, investors, equipment suppliers, contractors, electric utilities and other financial parties in various independent energy financings, involving co-generation facilities, wind-powered electric generating facilities, solar energy projects and other renewable and alternative energy facilities. Mr. Tynion has represented investor-owned utilities in several projects involving the utilities' non-regulated affiliates. He is active in several other infrastructure sectors and counsels clients in energy and infrastructure M & A, development and financing matters. Mr. Tynion is active in the American Wind Energy Association, the American Council on Renewable Energy and is a frequent speaker at energy finance industry conferences.
Mr. Tynion's practice also involves a wide scope of banking and other corporate finance transactions, many involving the representation of foreign banks in the United States. He has extensive experience with secured financing, such as equipment finance and leasing, especially involving aircraft, rolling stock, other transportation equipment and electric generation facilities. His leasing experience is broad and involves cross-border transactions. Mr. Tynion has represented lenders and other creditors in litigation, workouts, restructurings, bankruptcies and other disputes, including one of the more notorious leasing frauds of the 1980s.
He spent two years in a Tokyo law office as a young attorney, and much of his practice still involves international transactions, both representing foreign corporations doing business in the U.S. and non-U.S. companies in their businesses and financings worldwide.
Mr. Tynion was formerly a partner in the Leasing and Project Finance Group of a large New York-based law firm, where he practiced for 13 years before moving to Milwaukee in 1994. Mr. Tynion received his bachelor's degree in international economics from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 1978 and his law degree in 1981 from Fordham University School of Law, where he was editor-in-chief of the Fordham International Law Journal.
Mr. Tynion has been Peer Review Rated as AV® Preeminent™, the highest performance rating in Martindale-Hubbell's peer review rating system. In 2010 and 2011, the Legal 500 recognized Mr. Tynion in the area of project finance. He has also been selected by his peers for inclusion in the current edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of project finance law.