Sam Albright Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, PA, US

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Philadelphia

• I provided counsel on legal issues affecting Abra’s business, including:
• Developing and implementing a reliable company-wide strategy to ensure that the properbusiness licenses and permits are maintained for each of Abra’s shops, including managingvendors and outside counsel providing.
• Providing legal support to Abra’s new developments and acquisition targets, with involvementfrom the earliest stages through full integration, adding an average of one new shop per week.
• Analyzing franchise arrangements for Abra’s 60 franchise locations, and advising business teamson strategy with respect to purchase options and competition restrictions. Revising franchiseagreement forms to comply with.
• Negotiating and drafting real estate agreements including leases, amendments and relateddocuments for Abra’s 400 leased locations.
• Reviewing existing contracts with dozens of insurance customers in order to advise leadershipteam on existing requirements and potential opportunities in contract renegotiations.

Greater Philadelphia Area

• Experience with nearly all aspects of vRide’s nationwide vanpooling business, including:
• Preparing the company for sale to strategic buyer, guiding transition post-acquisition (as of June 2016, vRide, Inc. is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Enterprise Holdings, Inc.)
• Analyzing RFPs issued by government agencies and large employers; working withvRide Sales, Ops, Risk and Fleet teams to provide accurate and competitive proposals;negotiating resulting contracts and handling amendments.
• Developing form customer agreements and working with local sales teams andindividual customers to customize forms to each unique vanpooling arrangement
• Handling day‐to‐day calls and issues from corporate and field personnel on various legalissues and one‐off situations
• Developing internal employee policies including a drug and alcohol testing and Title VIpolicies; drafting and updating customer‐facing terms of use and privacy policies

Specialize in corporate transactional work. Significant experience in mergers and acquisitions; intellectual property strategies, registration and litigation; institutional lending; private equity and securities. Clients range from a regional chocolate company with a significant intellectual property portfolio to a for-profit educational organization to.

Assist individuals and non-profit organizations in the arts-related fields. Notable cases have included: negotiating an author’s deal with her literary agent, negotiating a choreographer’s settlement with a performance space, drafting releases for films, and drafting an option agreement for a potential television program. Wrote articles for publication on.

Toured and/or recorded with:The Monkees, Hootie & The Blowfish, Cyndi Lauper, Isaac Hayes, Roger Daltrey, The Temptations, The Rock'n'Roll All-Star Camp (house horn section), Frankie Valli,Otis Day & The Knights, Ricky Fante, Brooke Valentine, ForceTheory.

Vandoren is a French company that makes high-quality reeds and mouthpieces for saxophone and clarinet. I have been a Vandoren artist since 2001. I have also served as an artistic advisor at the Manhattan studio, providing advice to other Vandoren artists and customers.

Juris Doctor

B.Music, Jazz Studies, Saxophone, Business