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Robert A. Adelson
· Boston Univ.
· Northwestern Univ.
· New York Univ.
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· Corporate Law
· Taxation
· Contracts
· Business Law Matters
· Executive Stock
· Compensation
· Employment Law
· Severance Matters
· Trademarks
· Intellectual Property
Partners
Mark D. Engel
Stephen Schultz
Robert A. Adelson
Of Counsel
Peter L. Koff
Stephen M. Politi
Michael Roitman
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Robert Adelson has been a corporate and tax attorney since 1977. He began as an associate at nationally prominent New York City "mega" law firms, first at the Wall Street firm Dewey Ballantine Bushby Palmer & Wood and later at the Park Avenue firm Weil Gotshal & Manges. In 1985, Adelson returned home, where he has since established himself as a respected Boston business attorney. He has attained partner at several small and midsize Boston law firms, most recently at Lawson & Weitzen LLP and then Zimble Brettler LLP, where he was a partner from 1994 to 2004 before becoming a partner at Engel & Schultz LLP.
Educational Background
Mr. Adelson degrees from Boston University, B.A. 1974, summa cum laude and
Phi Beta Kappa, Northwestern University (Chicago), J.D. 1977 and Law Review
member, and New York University, LL.M. in Taxation. 1985. While at Boston
University, Adelson was an associate editor of the Daily Free Press,
President of the CLA Forum, Editor-in-chief of Course and Teacher Evalution
and received the university's Case Scholarship Award for his achievements.
Description of Clientele
Mr. Adelson has over the years represented and continues to represent a
growing group of individual and business clients that fit into these four
groups:
- Smaller and Early
Stage companies
- Consultants and
service providers
- Executives and key
employees
- Family businesses in
transition
Law
work for Businesses
Mr. Adelson's main work areas for startup / early stage businesses are in the
areas of:
- Business formation,
entity choice and business organization
- Capitalization, and
seed, angel and venture capital finance;
- Development of employee stock options and company benefit plans;
- Shareholder agreements
and cross sale arrangements;
- Software and product development, software agreements, contract production and outsourcing;
- Marketing and
distribution contracts;
- Trademarks,
copyrights, trade secrets and intellectual property protection
- Patent, trademark and
product licensing and sponsored research arrangements;
- Partnerships, Joint
Ventures, and strategic alliances
- Mergers and
Acquisitions, spinoffs and divestitures;
- Estate and business succession planning and phantom stock arrangements for family businesses.
Law
work for Service Providers
His main work areas for executives, employees and consultants are in the
areas of:
- Offer letters, term
sheets and employment agreements,
- Noncompete,
confidentiality, restrictive covenants;
- Restricted stock,
stock, options, SARs, phantom stock;
- Relocation, tax
gross-ups, recruitment issues;
- Severance, retention,
termination agreements;
- Consultant, director,
service agreements;
- Subcontractor terms;
- Entity choice,
liability protection;
- Trade identification,
trademark, and intellectual property protection.
For more on Attorney Adelson, see
Publications and Presentations (next page)
Recognition and Leadership (next page)
Personal Background (next page)
Mr. Adelson may be contacted directly via email: radelson@engelschultz.com.
Engel & Schultz, LLP
265 Franklin Street, Suite 1801 Boston, Massachusetts 02110
Telephone: (617) 951-9980 Fax: (617) 951-0048
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2006 Engel & Schultz, LLP
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