Jim D. Aycock

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Houston Trial Attorney, Business Litigation Lawyer - Jim D. Aycock

Jim Aycock is a trial attorney whose practice includes a wide variety of complex commercial litigation matters in state and federal courts, as well as domestic and international arbitrations, for both plaintiffs and defendants. Jim’s practice focuses primarily on financial litigation, energy matters, real estate disputes, and general business disputes. Jim commonly represents national and regional banks, private and publicly-held energy companies, as well as private corporations and partnerships.

Jim’s broad based litigation practice allows him to understand the client’s business and practices in a wide range of industries. In financial litigation, his experience includes intercreditor disputes, lien enforcement, complex collection matters, lender liability claims, and asset seizures for various financial institutions and mezzanine lenders. Jim’s financial legal acumen is complimented by his previous career as Vice President at Compass Bank and Wells Fargo Bank, where he provided lending, investment and trust services to commercial and private banking clients. Jim’s energy litigation experience includes upstream disputes such as surface owner claims, lease and gas purchase contract interpretation, AMI disputes, operator removal and royalty disputes. Other commercial litigation matters include complicated partnership disputes and business tort litigation as well as premises and product liability cases.

Additionally, Jim is a certified mediator, having completed his mediation training at the Blakely Advocacy Institute at the University of Houston Law Center.

Areas of Practice

Litigation
Commercial
Financial
Energy
Creditors’ Rights
Arbitration and Mediation

Bar and Court Admissions

Texas
U.S. District Court, Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas
U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

Representative Experience

FINANCIAL

Trial counsel for public regional bank and its lending officers against lender liability, fraud, and lien priority issues
Representation of numerous public and private banks in complex collection and lien enforcement matter
Trial counsel for public regional bank in fraud and other tort claims arising from foreclosure of condominium project, as well as construction defect claims brought against builder
Representation of farm credit lender in a variety of lien priority issues, intercreditor disputes, and collection actions
Representation of mezzanine lender against lender liability allegations
Representation of private investment manager and officers against securities fraud allegations

ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL

Representation of multiple independent production companies defending numerous surface damage and accommodation doctrine cases in South Texas
Representation of independent production company in nuisance claims brought by surrounding neighborhood
Representation of independent production company in takings claim against municipality over city drilling ordinance
Representation of publicly traded production company in dispute over validity of AMI agreement
Representation of independent operator defending against property damage claims arising from pipeline explosion
Representation of Canadian public energy company against tortious interference claims arising from acquisition of assets in Colombia
Trial counsel for global engineering and logistics company in defending against CERCLA, SWDA and fraud litigation over pipeline spill
Trial counsel defending former CEO of public energy company against contractual claims brought by successor company
Representation of public energy company in defending against challenges to Force Majeure assertion
Representation of fracturing fluid provider in claims against chemical supplier
Representation of manufacturing company in environmental claims associated with manufacturing facility

GENERAL COMMERCIAL

Arbitration counsel for valve manufacturer in defending against defective product claim involving refined products pipeline
Representation of multiple publicly traded, national manufacturing and chemical companies in products and premises cases
Representation of numerous individuals and entities in various partnership disputes involving breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and breach of contract claims

Education

University of Houston Law Center, Houston, Texas
- J.D. (Cum Laude) – 2001
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
- B.B.A., Finance – 1992

Professional Recognition

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation, 2025 Edition
Houston’s Top Lawyers – Commercial Litigation, Houstonia Magazine, since 2022
“Texas Rising Star,” as presented by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters Business, in Texas Monthly, 2006 – 2009, 2011-2012