Adam W. Jacobs
About Adam
Adam has over 33 years’ experience providing general business and corporate counsel to a broad range of businesses, enterprises, executives, ventures, entrepreneurs, and institutions in all phases of development. Adam handles a wide range of agreements and matters covering buying and selling businesses, divestitures, limited liability companies/joint ventures, equity investments, business financing, corporate governance matters, business succession planning, entity selection and formation, dissolutions, shareholder agreements and operating agreements, corporate divorces, non-solicitation and non-competition agreements, consulting agreements, vendor and supplier agreements, distributor agreements, licensing agreements, leasing, technology agreements, employment matters, executive employment and severance agreements, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements, buy-sell and equity transfer restriction agreements, and various business transactions, contacts, agreements, and matters.
Adam has closed hundreds of business transactions, including numerous mergers and acquisitions and business successions transactions. In addition, Adam advises privately owned businesses, family-owned businesses and closely held businesses as they plan for growth and execute succession planning strategies. Adam also represents executives and management level employees in connection with employment agreements, executive compensation and severance matters.
Prior to re-joining Riemer & Braunstein, LLP, Adam was a Partner at Mirick O’Connell, and he previously served as General Counsel to United Site Services, a private equity portfolio company with operations in over 33 states with over 3,700 employees. Prior to serving as General Counsel at United Site Services, Adam was a senior partner with Riemer & Braunstein, LLP in Boston for many years.
Adam has skillfully developed his practice to provide decisive, practical, and reasonable legal solutions to the firm’s clients as they face demanding transaction deadlines, legal demands and challenges, and issues requiring firm legal guidance and strong business acumen. Adam has leveraged his legal experience and business acumen together with his reasonable, timely and practical approach to legal matters to help the firm provide its many clients with a full-service solution to their legal and business issues. Adam’s approach to client representation and their legal and business issues is focused on pragmatic problem solving and dispute avoidance through client focused realistic solutions built on his years of legal, transaction and negotiation experience along with careful issue spotting, planning and plan execution.
Representative Matters
MoreLess- Lead attorney for the acquisition of over 125 businesses in the portable sanitation, temporary fencing, and other construction, event, and emergency related services and rentals, serving the construction industry, government agencies, concerts, festivals, sporting events, agricultural industry, and energy industry as part of an overall buy and build strategy which led to the acquiring entity being sold several times to private equity buyers
- Represented the seller of a medical instrument distributor business based in New England in its securities sale to a strategic buyer based in France
- Represented a Massachusetts based specialty medical supplier in its acquisition of a complementary specialized medical supply manufacturer and seller based in New York
- Represented the seller of an HVAC business based in Illinois in its securities sale to a private equity buyer
- Representation of U.K. based buyer in the expansion of its U.S. footprint via the acquisition of various industry distributors in the stairlift industry throughout the United States
- Represented the seller of a specialized composting and loam business based in Massachusetts in the sale of its business and real estate to a strategic buyer
- Represented the purchaser of a Massachusetts based athletic sports and tennis club
- Represented the seller of various junior hockey clubs based in New England
- Represented the seller of a New England based insurance broker to a strategic buyer based in New England
- Representation of professor in his joint venture with entrepreneurs to commercialize inventions and related knowledge, leading to the formation of entity and successful commercialization and funding by venture funds and private investors and secondary sales
- Representation of various businesses and their principals in the redemption or purchase of equity held by investors, partners or other third parties
- Representation of the acquisition and sale of membership interests/joint venture interests between members
- Representation of entities in their formation and initial structuring, including entity selection, governance matters, shareholder agreements, operating agreements, and advisory board establishment
- Various entity dissolutions, liquidations, and wind-downs
- Representation of various shareholders and members of limited liability companies in connection with “corporate divorces”, split-ups, and division of business and assets among equity holders
- Representation of various entities with supplier agreements, vendor agreements, distributor agreements, stocking agreements, and general business contracts and agreements
- Representation of executives and management level employees with respect to employment agreements, severance agreements, and equity and phantom equity-based compensation
- Representation of physicians and other medical providers related to employment agreements, association with medical groups, sale of medical practices, break-up, dissolution and divesture of medical groups, operational matters, shareholder agreements and operating agreements, and general practice related matters
- Representation of accredited investors in connection with alternative investments and related issues
- Representation of business entities with respect to succession planning and pre-planning for implementation of exit strategies
- Representation of non-U.S. based businesses in their establishment of and growth of U.S. based and related operational and expansion matters