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Anthony Wilkinson is a New Jersey and New York business lawyer at Wilkinson Law LLC who helps business owners make legal decisions as they fund, grow, protect, and sell their businesses.
Drawing on his experience as both an attorney and entrepreneur, Anthony helps clients evaluate risk, protect their position, and make decisions that support the business outcome they are trying to achieve.
I became a business attorney to help business owners like you. I attended Yale Law School, and during my studies, my focus was always corporate and commercial law. I even took a couple of financial management courses while I was at Yale. But why business law instead of family law, immigration law, real estate law, or some other area of practice?
Well, it’s because I have been an entrepreneur since I was about seven years old, when I made snowflakes out of paper and sold them door-to-door in my neighborhood. Not long after that, I ran the quintessential lemonade stand. Then there were the mail-order greeting cards that I also sold door-to-door. And all of that was just in elementary school! In middle school, I was making potholders to sell to friends and family, and learning how to invest in stocks.
After graduating from college, I started small businesses in a number of areas, but none have been as successful or as fulfilling as running my own law firm. Since I have always had an entrepreneurial mindset, I chose an area of law where I could help fellow entrepreneurs in achieving their dreams!
I am a teacher – albeit only occasionally as an adjunct professor at a local college and as a volunteer at my church. But nevertheless, I am a teacher at heart. I teach entrepreneurs, founders, and executives how to get their businesses from point A to point B.
I want my clients to understand why they are in their current situation, why the destination is better than their current position, and the path to get to the destination. Most importantly, I want them to know how to keep the situation from ever happening to them again.
I am also a tenacious problem solver. That comes from my training as an electrical and computer engineer at the University of Michigan. I graduated summa cum laude at the top of my class and then worked as a software engineer for a short stint before going to law school. I truly enjoy untangling the complex business issues my clients present, and giving them clarity about the path to a better situation.
But that’s all about me on the outside. What about me on the inside? Focusing on the inside is one of the elements that set me apart from other attorneys. I spend time considering how my clients (and their counterparties) think and feel. This significantly improves the rate of successful outcomes for deals and agreements.
The key here is to understand expectations and to craft an agreement that satisfies said expectations. I love to read books, watch videos, and attend events centered around personal development, how people make decisions, and how people change. I’ve been studying these areas for decades, and this has made me a much better business attorney.
I am a man of deep spiritual faith. I have adopted a firm motto that describes the core values that I uphold not only personally with my friends and family, but also professionally with my clients: Trustworthy business advisors keeping your business on TRACK! Trustworthy. Reliable. Available. Caring. Knowledgeable. I exhibit these traits to please my God, and the inevitable result is that they also please my clients.
Trustworthy. Reliable. Available. Caring. Knowledgeable. These are the five core precepts instilled in every team member at our firm. These are the important values we demonstrate to our clients. These are the key principles that make us who we are at Wilkinson Law.
Raising money can give you the capital to move your business forward, but the terms you accept can also affect ownership, control, repayment obligations, and future financing decisions.
Anthony helps you evaluate those terms before you commit. Whether you are funding a startup or an established company, that may include equity financing, convertible notes, Simple Agreements for Future Equity (SAFEs), investor agreements, and other issues that arise when you are funding your business.
Growth brings new relationships and bigger commitments. The agreement you make with a customer, business partner, licensor, or other company can shape what you can do, what you are responsible for, and how easily you can change course later.
Anthony helps you put those relationships on clear legal terms through commercial contracts, shareholder and other ownership agreements, and intellectual property licensing arrangements that support growing your business while keeping your larger business objectives in view.
Protecting your business often starts before there is a dispute. Anthony helps you put agreements and ownership arrangements in place that reflect what you intend, reduce avoidable uncertainty, and give you a stronger position if a business relationship later goes wrong.
When a contract dispute or another business dispute develops, Anthony helps you determine what the contract and the facts actually support before deciding how to respond. That may mean working toward a commercial resolution or, when the circumstances require it, using business litigation to protect your business.
Selling your business means turning years of work into a transaction that has to work for you after ownership changes hands. Before you agree to a deal, you need to understand what you are selling, what you will receive, and what obligations may continue after closing.
Anthony helps you prepare for that transition and work through the legal terms that shape the deal. As you move from an initial understanding with a buyer toward a final agreement, he helps keep the transaction aligned with what you want to accomplish by selling your business.
Anthony began his legal career as a judicial law clerk for Chief Justice Robert N. Wilentz of the New Jersey Supreme Court. Following his clerkship, he joined the Project Finance Group at Dewey Ballantine in Manhattan, where his work placed him in a sophisticated financial and transactional environment.
He has also served as president of an organization that managed the investment activities and tax reporting of the corporate general partner for a five-member investment partnership. His experience extends into technology as well, including researching and writing his own patent.
Together, those experiences exposed Anthony to legal problems from several perspectives: the courts, complex financing, investment activity, and technology. They form part of the background he now brings to helping clients evaluate business decisions.
Anthony Wilkinson demonstrates his knowledge, experience, skills, and competency by regularly sharing what he has learned with others.
Anthony Wilkinson ensures that he is well-prepared for any legal task needed to serve his clients by regularly participating in continuing legal education programs such as the following:
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