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Lesley P. Adamo

Partner
Vice Chair, Tax Group

New York
T: +1 646.414.6974 F: +1 973.422.6853 ladamo@lowenstein.com
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Lesley Adamo works closely with clients, as well as her corporate colleagues, to understand clients' business objectives and help ensure that transactions are structured tax-efficiently. She provides counsel on a variety of transactional tax matters, including corporate, partnership, and individual tax issues arising at the federal, state, and international levels, and she advises clients in connection with mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, fund formation, and the various tax issues specific to startup businesses and their founders. Lesley also has extensive experience in various other tax matters, such as cross-border transactions, blockchain transactions, qualified opportunity funds, bankruptcy-related issues, and derivative transactions.

Prior to joining the firm, Lesley was an associate at Winston & Strawn, where she focused on tax planning matters for high-net-worth individuals, multinational corporations, and investment funds. Lesley is also a Director and Vice President of the New York Women’s Bar Association Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) which supports and funds charitable and philanthropic programs to aid women and children throughout Manhattan and beyond.

  • Represented a cannabis dispensary in the structuring and formation of its New York City store, which included complex issues related to structuring for qualified small business stock (QSBS) benefits and addressing the concerns of a non-profit partner.
  • Represented FINTOP Capital, a venture capital firm focused on financial technology (fintech) companies, in leading a $10 million Series B funding round in Amaryllis Payment Solutions, a payment facilitation platform for financial institutions, software and SaaS companies.
  • Represented a boutique applied analytics and data science consultancy in its acquisition by a multinational professional services company.
  • Represented TRANZACT, and its executive management team, a provider of comprehensive, direct-to-consumer sales and marketing solutions for leading insurance carriers in the United States, in its $1.4 billion sale to Willis Towers Watson, a leading global advisory, brokering and solutions company.
  • Represented Ethoca, a global provider of technology solutions that help merchants and card issuers collaborate in real-time to quickly identify and resolve fraud in digital commerce, in its acquisition by Mastercard (NYSE: MA).
  • Represented Cambium Learning Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: ABCD), a leading SaaS educational technology solutions company, in its $900 million acquisition by Veritas Capital, a New York-based private-equity firm.
  • Represented Regulatory Professionals, Inc., a global integrated regulatory outsourcing providers to the pharmaceutical, biopharmaceutical, and medical device industries, in its acquisition by Premier Research, a global provider of clinical development services to biopharmaceutical product innovators.
  • Represented Aceto Corporation, an international company engaged in the development, marketing, sale and distribution of human health products, pharmaceutical ingredients and performance chemicals, in the $411 million sale of its chemical business assets, plus the payment of cure costs and the assumption of certain liabilities, to an affiliate of New Mountain Capital, LLC, through a Court-supervised process under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code.
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Education

  • New York University School of Law (LL.M. 2015), Taxation

    Fordham University School of Law (J.D. 2010); Ruth Whitehead Whaley Scholar; Fordham Urban Law Journal

    Amherst College (B.A. 2007), Economics and Psychology

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