Welcome to Alexander Abramson

 

 

Ed Alexander

As the founder of Alexander Abramson PLLC (formerly Entrepreneurship Law Firm), in Orlando, Florida, Ed has represented closely held businesses and professionals in business law matters since becoming a lawyer in 1993. He is admitted to practice law in both Florida and New York.

Ed is the author of

The Guide to Selling Your Florida Law Practice, and

10 Common and Costly Business Killing Legal Mistakes and How to Avoid Them: A Business Law Bible for Entrepreneurs.

Ed is also a Florida licensed business broker and a shareholder of Fitzgibbon Alexander, Inc., a Central Florida consulting, business valuation, and business brokerage firm.
Prior to attending law school, Ed held technical and business positions with technology companies, including with a pacemaker manufacturer, custom integrated circuit manufacturer and laser bar code manufacturer. He has been part of teams that coded software and designed hardware for the first generation of defibrillator pacemakers, as well as custom analog and digital integrated circuits used in, among other applications, automobiles and hearing aids.
In 1995, Ed was awarded U.S. Patent, No. 5,468,952, for his 1992 invention of a combined miniature high-speed scanner and portable handheld computer.
Ed is the the 2018 Chair of the Small Business Resource Network of the University of Central Florida Small Business Development Center, has taught New Venture Finance as an Adjunct Professor for the University of Central Florida (School of Business), and was 2007 Chairman of the East Orlando Chamber of Commerce.
He volunteers with the Orange County Legal Aid Society as a guardian ad-litem for abused and neglected children. In 2014, Ed was awarded the Orange County Legal Aid Society Distinguished Service Award for his long term dedicated services to the Central Florida community and contribution of time and professional skills.
Ed’s passions include mountain and road biking, kayaking and backpacking.

 

 

Suzan A. Abramson

Suzan Abramson is a business attorney with more than thirty years of experience in commercial transactions, corporate finance, and securities law. Ms. Abramson focuses her practice on business contracts, securities offerings, venture capital and private equity transactions, mergers and acquisitions, business structuring, joint ventures and entity formation.

As part of the fabric of the entrepreneurial community for over three decades, Ms. Abramson serves as a strategic advisor and outside general counsel for businesses across a wide spectrum of industries. She has represented businesses from their inception through their initial public offering and beyond. Focusing her career on capital raising for growing businesses, Ms. Abramson’s practice includes structuring and negotiating financing transactions, preparing securities offering documents, compliance with federal and state securities laws and the drafting and negotiation of all manner of commercial contracts.

Ms. Abramson's transactional experience, combined with her skills as a problem-solver and legal counselor, makes her ideally suited to help growth-oriented businesses.

Representative Matters Include:

• Numerous start-up and emerging companies through formation, strategic development, angel and venture capital financings and sale transactions.
• Issuers in private securities offerings, including commercial real estate, medical devices, software, consumer products, wireless telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, gaming and food service.
• Publicly held defense electronics manufacturer through sale to public company, repurchase of significant division and subsequent sale to private equity fund.
• NASDAQ listed company in PIPE transactions, strategic acquisitions and follow-on public offering.
• Large public university in structuring equity portion of technology transfer program.
• Executives of public and private companies in sale transactions as well as negotiating employment agreements, equity compensation packages and severance and transition agreements.
• REITS and other real estate funds in formation and securities offerings.
• Regulation D securities offerings.

Professional Honors & Activities

• AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
• Best Lawyers' 2017 Orlando Securities/Capital Markets Law "Lawyer of the Year".
• Best Lawyers' 2011 Orlando Corporate Law "Lawyer of the Year".
• Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for Corporate Law and Securities/Capital Markets Law since 2010.
• Listed in Orlando Magazine, Orlando's Best Lawyers (2010 – 2016).
• Included in Florida Trend Magazine, Florida Legal Elite (2016).
• Member – The Florida Bar, Business Law Section.
• Member and Prior Section Chairman – Orange County Bar Association, Corporate and Business Law Section.
• Prior President and Member – Women's Business Educational Council, Inc. Board of Directors.
• Prior General Counsel – Florida Council for High Technology.
• Prior Treasurer – Central Florida Association for Women Lawyers.
• Prior Consultant – Junior Achievement's Project Business.
• Prior Chair – Professional Women's Exchange Committee.
• Frequent lecturer on capital raising and corporate and securities law.

Admissions

• Florida, 1984

Education

• University of North Carolina School of Law, J.D., 1984
• State University of New York at Buffalo, B.S., Accounting, 1981, cum laude