SCHNADER - Key Persons
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- Co - Authors Cover Story in the Philadelphia Lawyer
- III Profiled in "New Head of the Philly Bar Focused on Diversity
- Installed As the 88th Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association
Albert Dandridge Installed as the 88th Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association
Al Dandridge Named as Philadelphia Business Journal 2013 Minority Business Leader Award Winner
Al Dandridge Named as One of The Legal Intelligencer's Diverse Attorneys of the Year
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- Chairman
- Partner
- Chief Diversity Officer
- Securities
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- Associate / Philadelphia, PA
- Featured Attorney
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- Honored As a 50 - Year Member of the Bar
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- Associate / Philadelphia, PA
- Featured Attorney
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- Appointed Co - Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association 's Fee Disputes Committee
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- Co - Chair
- Business Governance Litigation and Shareholder Disputes
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- Featured Attorney
- Partner / Philadelphia, PA
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- Chairman
- Counsel
- Adjunct Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
- Counsel / Pittsburgh, PA
Elliot Dater is counsel in the Business Services Department, chair of the Firm's Emerging Companies Practice and a member of the Firm's Corporate and International Practice Groups. He concentrates his practice in business counseling, transactions, mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, commercial contracts, including licensing and distribution transactions and the representation of Israeli clients in the United States.
Mr. Dater's corporate and transactional practice includes representation of issuers and investors in the technology, life sciences and angel investing industries in a variety of exempt offering transactions, from friends and family, through seed and angel investments to venture capital transactions. His work involves business planning for entrepreneurs, corporate structuring, due diligence and investment review and the drafting and negotiation of transaction documents for clients. Mr. Dater has also been involved in cross border merger in acquisition transactions in the technology, life science, food and insurance industries. Mr. Dater has also represented cross border venture capital funds in their formation work as well as private equity companies in cross border and domestic acquisitions.
Mr. Dater also has experience in representing technology and life sciences companies in negotiating production and licensing agreements as well as in distribution and sales agent agreements. He has also advised clients in the disposition of closely held family businesses as well as landlord and tenant side commercial leasing. Mr. Dater also advises defense and homeland security industry clients in compliance with export regulations, as well as contract negotiation and regulatory compliance for defense companies in certain highly regulated defense foreign assistance programs. Mr. Dater has also represented an applicant for a Pennsylvania medical marijuana dispensary permit in the corporate structuring and financing of its business.
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- Featured Attorney
- Partner / New York, NY
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- Vice President of Board, Executive Committee Member, Investment and Finance Committees, Chair of New Building Taskforce
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- California Super Lawyer, Jennifer Thai a Rising Star
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- Chairman
- Co - Chair Schnader 's Business Services Department
- Partner / Philadelphia, PA
Mr. Schwartzberg is a partner in the Business Services Department. He counsels businesses and their owners, representing clients in purchase and sale, finance and real estate transactions, and in contract and corporate matters. He has served as vice-chair and co-chair of the firm's Business Services Department.
Mr. Schwartzberg has represented buyers and sellers of technology, manufacturing, distribution, professional service, retail, and other closely held businesses. He also represents companies buying and leasing new facilities as well as selling real estate. His finance practice includes representation both of borrowers and lenders, as well as clients involved in workouts.
In his corporate practice, Mr. Schwartzberg advises foreign and domestic clients on the formation of corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and joint ventures, and works with the owners of family and other closely-held businesses on operating and stockholder agreements, succession planning, buy-ins and buy-outs and dispute resolution. He has extensive experience negotiating agreements with vendors and customers in the automotive aftermarket and pharmaceutical industries.
Prior to entering legal practice, Mr. Schwartzberg had substantial contract administration, program management and accounting experience in the satellite business.
Mr. Schwartzberg serves as a volunteer child advocate helping abused and neglected children in Philadelphia to obtain services and housing. He was honored as a Distinguished Advocate by the Support Center for Child Advocates. He is a recipient of the firm's Earl G. Harrison Pro Bono Award and is a member of the firm's Pro Bono Committee.
Education
Temple University Beasley School of Law, J.D., 1985
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School, B.S., 1979
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- Corporate Board Member Magazine
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- Chairman
- Communications and Media
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- Chairman
- Counsel / Philadelphia, PA
- Featured Attorney
- Named Nonprofit Group Co - Chair
Joseph E. Lundy has developed a stellar national reputation in matters involving exempt organizations. To this practice, he brings over 40 years of experience as a tax attorney and business advisor, focusing on exempt organizations. Mr. Lundy has hands-on experience in advising healthcare systems, universities, colleges, foundations and other nationally prominent charities throughout the country regarding IRS audits, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, tax-exempt financing, unrelated business income, and physician practice arrangements as well as fundraising and general compliance matters.
Prior to joining Schnader, Mr. Lundy was a founding partner of Lundy Fleming LLP, a partnership devoted to the legal representation of nonprofit organizations, closely-held businesses and individuals. He was also a principal in the Washington, D.C., New York, and Philadelphia offices of the international accounting and consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Serving as a leader in the firm's Washington National Tax Services healthcare, higher education, private foundation and other exempt organization tax practice, he was responsible for providing innovative and proactive solutions regarding tax laws and other regulatory matters applicable to exempt organizations. Mr. Lundy was also a partner of the Philadelphia-based law firm Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP.
Lundy Quoted in "Visit Philadelphia could have recovered embezzled funds with insurance"
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- Co - Chair
- Higher Education
- Practice Chair
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- Chairman
- Professional Liability and Ethics
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- Professional Staff Member
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- Featured Attorney
- Partner / Philadelphia, PA
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- Professional Staff Member
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- Chairman
- Finance
- Partner
- Financial Services
Ms. Blanton is a member of the firm's Executive Committee, chair of the firm's Finance Practice Group and a member of the Real Estate Practice Group and represents financial institutions in various types of residential, retail, and office development projects, in syndicated secured real estate credit facilities, and in the structuring, drafting, and negotiation of workout and forbearance agreements. She also represents investors and institutional clients in complex real estate sales and acquisitions. In addition, Ms. Blanton has significant experience representing landlords and tenants in commercial leasing transactions.
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- Chairman
- Partner
- Presented on Government Law
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- Chairman
- Trust and Estate
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- Chairman
- Co - Chair
- Partner
- Co - Chair of the Firm 's Business Services Department
- Member of the Women Presidents' Organization
- Nonprofit Finance at the New York Junior League's Nonprofit Boards Clearinghouse 's Spring 2014 Course
- Nonprofit Finance at the New York Junior League's Nonprofit Boards Clearinghouse 's Spring 2015 Course
Sarah Hewitt is co-chair of the Firm's Business Services Department. She also leads the Corporate Practice Group, co-chairs the Mergers and Acquisitions and Art Law Practice Groups, and is a member of the Associates Professional Development Committee. As a corporate partner, she represents public and private companies, both U.S. and international, including emerging companies, family businesses, women and minority-owned businesses and nonprofit corporations, in the areas of corporate and securities law, private equity and venture capital financing, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and general corporate counseling. She has also represented borrowers and lenders in secured and unsecured financing transactions, including asset-based loan transactions, most recently focusing on loans secured by fine art. She advises clients in a wide range of industries, including art, energy, financial services, gaming, mining, services, software, technology, and telecommunications.
Ms. Hewitt served as a member of the Board of Governors and the Corporate Secretary of The Cosmopolitan Club.
Ms. Hewitt served as a member of the Board of Directors of The Junior League of the City of New York. She previously served on the Board of Managers and the Management Council, as Treasurer, Finance Manager, Sustainer Nominating Chair, Nominating Chair, Nominating Vice-Chair, Chair of the Audit Committee and as a member of the Executive, Ethics, and Governance Committees.
Ms. Hewitt is a member of the Women Presidents' Organization and a supporter of women in business.
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- Chairman
- Co - Chair
- Co - Chair CIPP / US