Faculty Bios

Timothy C. Jochim
B.A., University of North Dakota, 1967;
M.A., University of North Dakota, 1970;
J.D., University of Akron, 1976.

Tim Jochim, the President and primary shareholder of Jochim Co., L.P.A., is a national authority on employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) and business succession. The firm also has expertise in corporate finance, merger/acquisition and employee benefits.

Mr. Jochim is also adjunct professor of corporate finance at the Capital University School of Law. He is former counsel to Walter & Haverfield, former Manager of Industrial Development for the Ohio Department of Development, former General Counsel of Ironton Iron, Inc., and former adjunct professor of business policy at the Ohio State University.

The nature of his practice has required Mr. Jochim to develop expertise in the negotiation and structuring of business transactions as well as in several substantive areas of law including corporate, employee benefits, securities and corporate tax. He has assisted clients in developing and implementing professional boards of directors and has lectured frequently to business and trade organizations on corporate governance.

Mr. Jochim is the author of Employee Stock Ownership and Related Plans, published by Greenwood Press in 1982. His articles on business transactions and corporate finance have been published in The Academy of Management Review (July, 1979); Personnel (November - December, 1978); Public Utilities Fortnightly (January 21, 1982), Ohio Business (October, 1988), The Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance (Fall, 1998), Taxation for Accountants (July, 1998) and Taxation for Lawyers (September-October, 1998).

Tim Jochim is co-founder of the Ohio Chapter of The ESOP Association and a member of the legislative committee of The ESOP Association. He has been active in the Columbus Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He has been a candidate for U.S. Congress from Ohio and has been recognized in Marquis Who’s Who in the Midwest and in Benton’s Who’s Who.

E-mail Professor Jochim at tjochim@jochim-law.com