Andrew R Bilodeau Esq.

Andrew R. Bilodeau, Esq., MBA, is the managing partner and a founding partner of Bilodeau Capalbo, LLC in West Warwick, Rhode Island. His practice includes business and commercial litigation, real estate litigation and transactions, construction law, condominium disputes, insurance coverage disputes, creditor rights, and receiverships. He brings more than two decades of legal experience and more than 30 years of entrepreneurial and business experience to his representation of businesses, property owners, developers, contractors, financial institutions, and investors.

In business and commercial litigation, Mr. Bilodeau represents clients in matters involving breach of contract, fiduciary duties, shareholder and LLC member rights, partnership disputes, operating agreements, buyout provisions, business valuations, and corporate governance. His trial experience includes serving as lead counsel for VM Parkway, LLC and Karl Augenstein in litigation against Metacomet Investors, LLC concerning ownership interests and an LLC operating agreement. He also served as lead trial counsel for Joshua Karten in litigation involving Proclamation Ales, L.L.C., minority-owner oppression, fiduciary duties, dissociation, contractual redemption provisions, and business valuation.

Mr. Bilodeau advises business owners on formation, financing, acquisitions, sales, commercial contracts, and ownership arrangements. He has represented buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions valued from $2.4 million to $26 million, including asset and stock transactions involving restaurants, retailers, and manufacturers. His work includes letters of intent, purchase agreements, corporate reorganizations, employee stock and membership purchase plans, and outside general counsel services.

His corporate counsel experience includes representing small and medium-sized companies with annual revenues from $3 million to $32 million in construction, real estate, manufacturing, and hospitality. He has drafted and negotiated commercial leases, financing commitments, licensing and distribution agreements, software and technology agreements, service and consulting agreements, employment and severance agreements, supply-chain contracts, franchise agreements, and consignment arrangements. His work also includes private placement memoranda and subscription agreements for real estate investments, tenant-in-common ownership documents, employer policies, regulatory compliance, and legal review of marketing materials.

His real estate practice includes acquisitions, dispositions, commercial financing, leasing, development, and property disputes. His commercial real estate transactions typically involve approximately $2 million to $20.5 million. In 2023, he drafted and negotiated finance documents and coordinated due diligence for more than 68 commercial real estate mortgage loans totaling over $164 million in aggregate loans. That work included multistate and multisite portfolio financing involving hospitality, residential, multifamily, mixed-use, and retail properties. He has also overseen contaminated real estate owned by lenders through environmental cleanup, regulatory no-further-action determinations, and sale.

Mr. Bilodeau represents property owners and developers in matters involving real estate contracts, easements, adverse possession, boundary disputes, partition actions, seller fraud and nondisclosure, title issues, and competing claims to property. He also represents condominium associations and unit owners in disputes involving governance, assessments, maintenance obligations, common elements, construction defects, and governing documents. He served as trial counsel for the defendant and counterclaim plaintiff in Eger v. Weiss et al., KC08-0591, an action involving adverse possession, trespass and claims for injunctive relief. Judgment was entered in favor of the defendant following trial.

In The Union Cemetery Burial Society of North Smithfield v. John D. Foisy et al., No. 2020-182-Appeal (R.I. May 10, 2023), Mr. Bilodeau assisted in preparing the defendants' appellate brief, and partner Ryanna T. Capalbo presented oral argument. The firm handled only the appeal. The Rhode Island Supreme Court vacated the judgment and remanded for further proceedings concerning the hostile and exclusive elements of adverse possession as necessary.

In construction matters, Mr. Bilodeau represents property owners, contractors, and developers in disputes concerning contracts, defective workmanship, incomplete work, payment obligations, and mechanic's liens. His practice also includes insurance coverage disputes, denied or underpaid property-insurance claims, and claims involving home-inspector negligence. He represented the plaintiff in David Mielke v. South County Post & Beam, Inc., W.M. No. 2010-290 (R.I. Super. Ct. Oct. 29, 2010) (Lanphear, J.). The Court confirmed an arbitration award arising from a timber-frame construction dispute, finding assent to the written agreement through the contractor's conduct despite its missing signature and applying equitable estoppel.

His creditor rights practice includes commercial collections, enforcement of judgments, receiverships, and disputes involving business assets and financial obligations. He has served as a court-appointed receiver and land trustee, and as counsel to a receiver.

Before and alongside his legal career, Mr. Bilodeau owned and operated businesses in property management, real estate renovation, importing, and filtration-equipment manufacturing. He served as president of A.R. Bilodeau, Inc. from 1992 through 2017, purchasing, renovating, and managing more than 40 residential units and more than nine commercial rental properties. He served as president of Service Tech, Inc. from 1992 through 2004. That business employed more than 15 employees, and its annual sales grew from $600,000 in its first year to $7 million in 2004. His management experience has included an aggregate $1.9 million budget across businesses and management and mentoring of four staff attorneys and three support staff. His business background and graduate business education inform his analysis of clients' financial, operational, and contractual concerns.

Mr. Bilodeau earned his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Rhode Island in 2001, his Juris Doctor from Roger Williams University School of Law in 2004, and his Master of Business Administration from Northeastern University's D'Amore-McKim School of Business in 2021. He is admitted to practice in Rhode Island, Connecticut, and the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. District Courts for the District of Rhode Island and the District of Connecticut.