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Jim Lanshe has been actively involved in law and investment management for over twenty-five years, most recently as president and general counsel of a venture between a multi-line domestic insurance holding company and a major, international reinsurer. He had previously served as the chief executive of a fund services company administering over six billion dollars in fund assets. Currently, he also serves as the non-executive Chairman of Oppenheimer Resources SA, a Luxembourg based SICAV-SIF. He has been a partner at O'Connor, Cavanagh, Anderson, Westover, Killingworth & Beshears (now Greenberg Traurig) in Phoenix, Arizona, and served as the chief executive of Norex Corporation, a diversified financial services company including the Biltmore Trust Company. Mr. Lanshe has also been an assistant dean and faculty member at Seton Hall University School of Law where he taught domestic and international securities regulation and corporate finance. He was also on the faculty at the University of Louisville's Brandeis School of Law where he taught mergers and acquisitions, as well as an adjunct at University’s School of Business. While at Seton Hall he also acted as a consultant to the United Nations Development Program for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (UNDP CIS Program), where he advised on legislative reform within the CIS to facilitate the flow of private capital into that region. Currently, he holds an honorary research associateship at Oxford Brookes University School of Social Sciences and Law, Oxford, England, where he has lectured on transnational business issues.
Mr. Lanshe has served on numerous civic and charitable boards, including the Arizona Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, Sacred Heart Healthcare System, Saint Thomas University School of Law, Muhlenberg College Board of Associates, the Jesse Owens Memorial Health Center, and the Leadership Foundation for American Values. He has also served as an administrative aide to the former United States Senate Minority Leader, Hugh Scott.
Mr. Lanshe is a graduate of Georgetown University (B.A), Cornell University School of Law (JD), Harvard University (MPA), University of Hawaii (MBA), and Cardiff University (MPhil). He is admitted to practice law in the states of Arizona, New York, Pennsylvania, Texas and the District of Columbia, as well as various federal courts including the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Lanshe previously served as a captain in the United States Marine Corps Office of the Staff Judge Advocate during which time he held a State Department appointment as a United States representative to the courts of Japan.