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James Kellet Tam

James Kellet Tam,
Director

Phone: (808) 524-1800
Fax: (808) 524-5976
jktam@ahfi.com

Areas of Practice

  • Property and business transactions
    • Formation of for-profit and non-profit business entities
    • Negotiating and drafting agreements for operating, leasing, shareholder or partner relations, buying or selling assets or stock, borrowing or lending
    • Restructuring debt
    • Collecting accounts receivable
    • Mergers
    • Dissolutions
    • Real property transactions including structuring and preparing agreements for acquiring, financing, developing, operating, leasing, selling
  • Employee benefits
    • Forming and operating single and multi-employer fringe benefit plans
    • Obtaining and maintaining tax exempt status
    • Insuring compliance with ERISA, HIPAA, COBRA, and other applicable laws
    • Resolving benefit claim disputes
    • ERISA compliance emphasis for Taft-Hartley plans
  • Estate planning
    • Wills and trusts
    • Probate

Admitted to Practice

  • Hawai`i
  • U.S. District Court for the District of Hawai`i
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Affiliations

  • Hawai`i State Bar Association
    • Director (1985-1987)
  • International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
  • World Presidents Organization - Hawai`i Chapter
  • Young Presidents Organization
    • Past chairman

  • Oahu Country Club
    • President (2002-2003)

  • Friends of the Waikiki Aquarium
    • Director (1993-2005)

  • Hale Kipa, Inc. - Emergency Shelter for Youth
    • Director and past president (1983-1999)

  • Arcadia Retirement Residence
    • Director (1993-1998)

  • The Pacific Club
    • President (1997)

  • Central Union Church
    • Trustee and past president (1983-1991)

  • Samaritan Counseling Center of Hawai`i
    • Director and president-elect (2005)

Education

  • Georgetown University, Washington, DC (J.D.)
  • Williams College, Williamstown, MA (B.A.)

Past Positions

  • Tam, O'Connor & Henderson, a Law Corporation
    • President (1992-2000)
    • Director and shareholder (1983-2000)
  • Anthony, Hoddick, Reinwald & O'Connor
    • Partner (1980-1983)
    • Associate (1974-1980)

Born

  • Paia, Hawai`i
 
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