Overview

As a Director, Jeffrey Wolfson represents clients with respect to a broad range of matters, including employee and stockholder relationships, acquisitions and mergers, financings, succession planning, trademark protection and general corporate representation. In addition, as a member of the firm’s Employment Law group, his work on behalf of both employers and employees includes the drafting and negotiation of employment and consulting agreements, non-compete and confidentiality agreements, severance packages, buy-sell agreements and various forms of employee compensation. Jeff is active in several local and national organizations devoted to the representation of family-owned businesses and is Chairman Emeritus of the Northeastern University Center for Family Business.

Representative Experience

• Negotiated a $350 Million loan to a borrower with U.S. and Canadian affiliates for an international syndicate of banks.
• Advised a family-owned plastics manufacturing company following the deaths of its sole stockholders/senior executives in a tragic plane crash, including dealing with anxious customers, lenders and employees; creating and participating on a Board of Advisors; and ultimately selling the company. 
• Secured a $50 Million revolving loan for the publicly-held parent company of a national electronics retailer. 
• Negotiated a LLC operating agreement for a major hotel chain to be built in the former Olympic Park in Atlanta. 
• Transferred ownership to the second generation of a family-owned business, including stockholder and buy-sell agreements among the new owners.