Jim Hill

Executive Chairman of Benesch et al which is a 150 lawyer plus firm servicing the middle market.  www.bfca.com.  Has offices in Wilmington, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Columbus and Shanghai.  Has a large, 40 lawyer plus, group of attorneys servicing the transactional arena through representation of strategic and financial buyers and sellers including having a very strong private equity practice that historically has closed more middle market private equity transactions than any other law firm between Chicago and New York City.  Jim Hill is the Chairman of the Private Equity Group and has been involved in working with private equity principals, having started practicing in Chicago in 1978, for 30 years.  Still a very active practitioner who also sees a number of transactions and successful CEOs which are useful to private equity and strategic buyers.