Description Of Practice

Karen J. Orlin: Karen Orlin focuses on legal services to early-and mid-stage businesses, not-for-profit entities such as non-governmental organizations,  investors, banks and other financial institutions. These services include legal representation relating to transactions,corporate governance and reorganization, shareholder or member, owner, employee, contractor, vendor and customer agreements, personnel policy manuals, mergers and acquisitions, dissolution, commercial lending, and investment.

Primary Focus

Expertise:

• Mergers, acquisitions, reorganizations, equity restructurings and related business entity planning. Investment in early- and mid-stage businesses.
• Borrower and lender representation in commercial loan transactions.
• Business entity elements of estate planning, matrimonial and other litigation matters.
• Expert witness in governance of business and not-for-profit corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships. Published author and seminar speaker regarding mergers and acquisitions, securities law and opinion letter standards.
• Expert witness in corporate and securities legal malpractice.
• Regulations concerning financial institutions and auctioneering (Florida licensed auctioneer).
• Shareholder, operating and partnership agreements; employment, independent contractor and severance agreements; licensing, distribution, and agency agreements; confidentiality and non-competition agreements; vendor and other operational agreements.

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Achievements, Awards, Articles or other publications

The first nine years of Ms. Orlin's legal career were in private practice with Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman LLP (now Cooley Godward Kronish LLP) in New York City, where she handled a broad range of business and commercial matters. Since 1981, she has practiced in South Florida: 20 years in law firms including Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A., seven years as Senior Vice President and in house counsel for a regional, publicly owned financial institution acquired by Wachovia Bank, N.A. in 1995, and, during 2007, as General Counsel for a national bank.

Ms. Orlin is an expert witness in the area of corporate governance and corporate and securities legal malpractice. She is a published author and a seminar speaker regarding mergers and acquisitions, securities law and opinion letter standards.

Educational Background

Ms. Orlin holds a J.D. from the HarvardLawSchool and a Bachelor of Arts, Summa Cum Laude, in mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She is AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.

Admitted to practice law in New York and Florida. Available to represent clients throughout South Florida and in the New York City Greater Metroplitan area.

Personal Information

The first nine years of Ms. Orlin's legal career were in private practice with Kronish, Lieb, Weiner & Hellman LLP (now Cooley Godward Kronish LLP) in New York City, where she handled a broad range of business and commercial matters. Since 1981, she has practiced in South Florida: 20 years in law firms including Akerman, Senterfitt & Eidson, P.A., seven years as Senior Vice President and in house counsel for a regional, publicly owned financial institution acquired by Wachovia Bank, N.A. in 1995, and, during 2007, as General Counsel for a national bank.

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