Jim Bowen focuses his practice on complex business and commercial litigation, including shareholder class action litigation and cases involving mergers and acquisitions, healthcare law, shareholder disputes, banking and commercial law, accounting fraud, business torts, breach of contract claims and trade secrets.  He represents a wide range of business and individual clients in state and federal court, in mediation and arbitration, as well as in connection with general corporate and business matters and pre-litigation dispute resolution.  Jim’s most recent experience has included defending public corporations, individual officers and directors and/or private equity firms in a variety of securities class action, derivative and ERISA lawsuits; representing public and private healthcare providers in various business and regulatory disputes; successfully obtaining summary judgment on behalf of a private computer manufacturer in defense of allegations of trade secret violations by a large, international conglomerate; and obtaining an over $2 million judgment on behalf of a former chief executive officer of a large, private corporation in a dispute involving a shareholder agreement with his former employer.

Mr. Bowen graduated from Columbia Law School in New York, where he was a James Kent and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar.  Prior to joining Riley, Warnock & Jacobson, PLC, Jim was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in New York, where he concentrated on corporate transactional work, including representing public and private corporations and investment banks in debt and equity securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions.