Louis A. Russo

Lou Russo of Russo Law LLC is an accomplished business lawyer, arbitrator, professor and author with nearly 15 years of legal experience and training from the best and the brightest legal minds at the nation's preeminent AmLaw100 business law firms including Proskauer Rose, Winston & Strawn, and Alston & Bird.

Lou advises and works closely with clients on all legal issues serving as outside general counsel to many. He negotiates and drafts business contracts, helps business owners buy and sell businesses, as well as navigate pre-suit negotiations, mediation, arbitration of business disputes, and federal and state court litigation of which often include a breach of contract and related allegations of fraud and other tortious conduct. Lou works to resolve business disputes and partnership disagreements before litigation becomes necessary.

Lou helps business owners and investors buy and sell businesses of all sizes including small businesses and medium-sized businesses in New York and New Jersey.  He regularly drafts and negotiates asset sales, purchase agreements and the sale of interests in limited liability companies between owners. In that role he works with his clients' tax accountants, insurance brokers, and other professionals to get the deal closed.

Drawing upon his significant experience, Lou Russo also serves as arbitrator in FINRA and American Arbitration Association - Consumer matters and also teaches commercial arbitration as an adjunct law professor of law.

A magna cum laude graduate of Hofstra Law, Lou was the Associate Editor of the Hofstra Law Review and the Vice President of the Moot Court Association. He also participated in the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s trial techniques program. He received his B.A. in political science (with a minor in biology) from Villanova University.

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New York business lawyer, New Jersey business lawyer, business attorney, contracts, mergers and acquisitions, M&A, buing a business, selling a business, pre-suit negotiation, mediation, litigation in state and federal courts, and arbitration, partnership disputes, operating agreements, shareholder agreements, NDAs, purchase agreements (breach of contract, Commercial Litigation, Business Litigation)