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James M. Textor

Counsel
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Languages: French

Jim is a nationally-recognized admiralty and maritime litigator in state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels.

Jim has nearly 35 years of experience—both in private practice and as corporate counsel for a leading oil trader.

Jim represents maritime clients in shipping and chartering disputes, breach of liquid commodity sales contracts and related commercial arbitrations. He also advises multinational energy companies, financing banks and trading institutions on complex coverage disputes arising from alleged damage to energy-related assets.

His years as a maritime counsel provide him with extensive experience in the petroleum and chemical industry, including hedging business risks through derivatives.

Jim is the author of six law review articles on petroleum trading contracts, maritime arbitration, and vessel and barge charter party disputes. As issued by the U.S. Coast Guard, Jim holds an unlimited tonnage ocean Second Mate license.  

After graduating from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Jim sailed as deck officer for American Export Lines on dry cargo break-bulk vessels and for Point Shipping and Getty Fleet Corp on U.S. Flag coastwise tankers.

For charter party and sales contract disputes, Jim routinely participates as the Chair in tri-partite Society of Maritime Arbitration proceedings in New York City.

  • Represented an energy sector holding company in negotiations of a two-year terminal storage and handling agreement for an aggregate of more than 500,000 barrels of storage capacity for gasoline and butane.
  • Represented private equity fund as deal counsel in its successful bid and acquisition of four coal-fired power plants totaling 1200 MW of generation capacity in New Jersey, West Virginia and Arkansas including back leverage financing to support the acquisition.

Member, Maritime Law Association of the U.S., Committee for Alternative Dispute Resolution
Member, American Bar Association
Member, New York County Lawyers' Association

  • New York
  • Pennsylvania
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
  • U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York
  • J.D., Franklin Pierce Law Center,

    Staff Member, The Journal of New Hampshire Law

  • B.S., United States Merchant Marine Academy
James Textor

Counsel

Special Counsel

James Textor

Counsel

Special Counsel

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