James R. Tanenbaum is a partner in Morrison & Foerster’s New York Office and serves as Chair of the firm’s Global Capital Markets practice. Mr. Tanenbaum has concentrated his practice on corporate finance and the structuring of complex domestic and international capital markets transactions. He represents issuers, including some of the nation’s largest financial institutions, underwriters, agents, and other financial intermediaries, in public and private offerings of securities as well as issuers, investment banks, and purchasers in hybrid, mortgage-related, and derivative securities transactions. He has developed some of the most widely used hybrid techniques for the placement and distribution of securities.

Mr. Tanenbaum works closely with leading investment banks to formulate new methodologies for securities offerings and to structure innovative financial products. He has also represented many technology-based companies, including biotech and medical device companies. He is a frequent lecturer on capital markets topics, and has lectured at the Securities and Exchange Commission, SIFMA and at a variety of securities industry groups. Mr. Tanenbaum has been cited as a recommended lawyer for capital markets in the IFLR 1000 Guide to Leading Lawyers, as one of America’s leading lawyers for capital markets – debt and equity by Chambers USA and as a recommended lawyer for capital markets and international securities transactions by The Legal 500 – United States. He lectures at law schools in the United States and abroad.

Born in New York, NY, Mr. Tanenbaum received his B.A. degree from Lehigh University in 1971, graduating summa cum laude. In 1972, he received his M.A. from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts and Harvard Universities and received his J.D. in 1975 from the University of Pennsylvania where he was an Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review. Mr. Tanenbaum is a member of the New York Bar.

Mr. Tanenbaum is a member of the Board of Trustees of Lehigh University and the National Chair of the Benjamin Franklin Society of the University of Pennsylvania.