INTRODUCTION
JENNIFER COLLESANO brings a wealth of experience working with families and individuals in need of legal representation, business advice, and assistance finding solutions to difficult challenges. Her most rewarding successes involve working with family businesses as they navigate growth, downturns, and intergenerational change. She has a knack for finding creative solutions to sticky situations, and a manner of dealing with clients that is practical and
considerate. You will find her to be a dedicated and enthusiastic advocate to help you prosper through good and bad times.
FOCUSED EXPERTISE
JENNIFER COLLESANO has spent over twenty years in her private law and consulting practice. Her predominant areas of experience are in federal and state litigation and business law, advising clients on business structure, financing, corporate governance, and contracting. She has represented a variety of commercial entities doing business with federal agencies and state governments. Her practice includes representing technology and Internet businesses, helping to protect intellectual property and key employees; craft licenses and agreements; and navigate disputes successfully and cost-effectively. She also advises start-up and growing firms in a variety of industries, through mergers and acquisitions, securing private and institutional financing, crafting partnerships and joint venture relationships, developing internal operating plans, employment strategies, and corporate governance. She works with owners on estate planning and succession planning for their businesses. Her practice areas include company transactions, succession planning and estate planning, real estate litigation, and will contests.
RECENT UNDERTAKINGS
Jennifer has had the privilege to work on numerous challenging and rewarding recent projects and cases. She helps clients define paths toward success, and executes with meaningful and vigorous effort, always prioritizing the clients’ objectives and needs.
STRUCTURING AND PLANNING
Structuring and litigating the take-over of a privately-owned company through a proxy solicitation campaign and successfully implementing a follow-on litigation strategy to secure removal of the ousted board.
DEFENSE AND PROTECTION
Directing the defense of a lawsuit involving over 700 individual defendants accused of malpractice and fraud in the solicitation of investments in the viatical industry, and successfully securing a summary judgment of the case on behalf of her clients.
STRATEGY AND OPERATION
Designing the acquisition of a closely-held cybersecurity company and providing advice and contracting expertise in the development of internal company structure, protection of intellectual property, operations, and domestic and international business development.