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PHILADELPHIA, July 1, 2024 – Stevens & Lee announced today that Neal A. Jacobs has joined the firm’s Litigation Department in its Philadelphia office.
Mr. Jacobs is an experienced business lawyer and litigator who focuses on complex corporate and business matters. He has developed a reputation in the world of business divorce and ownership disputes within privately held companies, including breakups of those companies. He provides strategic, business-minded counsel to a range of privately held companies, private equity funds, investors, family-owned companies and company leadership, including founders, entrepreneurs and majority and minority shareholders. His representations span the manufacturing, technology, telecommunications, real estate, financial services, professional services and health care industries.
Mr. Jacobs has particular experience working with privately held companies and their shareholder and member relations. He has extensive knowledge of the interplay of rights and obligations of equity holders, management and lenders, which allows him to provide strategic insight to clients in business divorce matters. These matters include claims of shareholder oppression, squeeze-outs and freeze-outs of various types.
In the event of deadlocks between ownership groups, Mr. Jacobs has been sought out to craft business-oriented solutions to joint ownership matters. He assists with documenting these arrangements as well as negotiating, structuring and documenting mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures’ private equity and venture capital matters as well as general commercial contracts and creditor and debtor matters. In addition to litigation, Mr. Jacobs has significant experience in alternative dispute resolution of commercial disputes, including mediations and arbitrations.
Mr. Jacobs earned his J.D., with honors, from Rutgers University School of Law and his B.S. from Rutgers University.
