James is a director in the Orange County office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. He joined JLL as part of the HFF acquisition and has more than seven years of experience in real estate. He focuses on debt and equity placement transactions nationwide, with a particular focus on multi-housing in the western United States. Throughout the course of his career, he has been involved in capitalizing retail, office, industrial, multi-housing and land transactions totaling more than $3.82 billion in debt and $216 million in equity placement across 146 transactions.

James started at HFF in 2013. Before that, he worked at The Bascom Group as a multifamily acquisitions' analyst. He has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from USC's Marshall School of Business.