Jeff Resnick

Partner

ORANGE COUNTY
5 Park Plaza
Suite 1400
Irvine, CA 92614

949.468.3200

Jeff Resnick is an experienced business and corporate transactional attorney with a practice focused on representing closely held businesses, mergers and acquisitions, succession planning, corporate governance, and trusts and estates matters. With more than 20 years of experience advising clients across a broad range of industries, Jeff brings strategic insight and practical execution to a wide variety of business and corporate legal issues confronting today’s closely held businesses and their owners.

Jeff is a trusted advisor to buyers and sellers through all phases of the deal process in mergers and acquisitions and succession planning matters across a variety of industries.

In addition, Jeff has significant experience representing closely held businesses and their owners on general business and corporate matters, including corporate compliance.

Jeff also has experience advising closely held business owners on trusts and estates matters.

Jeff has a thoughtful, client-centric, and business-oriented approach, and that, combined with his legal knowledge, allows him to provide practical and effective legal representation in today’s rapidly changing environment and to communicate complex legal concepts in an easily understood manner.

Representative Matters

  • Represented the seller of an aerospace engineering firm in a $25 million stock sale transaction that included the sale of an affiliate company located in the United Kingdom.
  • Represented a paving company in a $10 million succession plan transaction between the selling shareholders and two key employees that included new real property leases, consulting agreements and employment agreements.
  • Represented a shareholder in a $5M stock purchase transaction for the purchase of the majority shareholders interest in a general contracting company that included a new real property lease, employment agreements and licensing issues.
  • Represented the buyer in a $4 million stock purchase transaction for a company that provides specialized metal coatings.
  • Represented the seller in a stock purchase transaction for a sale of the majority of shares in a fulfillment company.
  • Represented the seller in a $25 million stock sale transaction for a technology company.
  • Represented buyers in a $5 million succession planning transaction for a broker-dealer.
  • Represented the selling shareholders in a $20 million stock sale transaction for a specialty coatings and adhesive company in the aerospace industry.

Admitted to Practice

States

  • State Bar of California

Education

  • Whittier College of Law, J.D., cum laude
  • Articles Editor and Solicitations Editor, The Whittier Law Review
  • Member, Moot Court Honors Board
  • California Polytechnic State University, B.S.

Professional Associations & Memberships

  • Orange County Bar Association, Past chair of the Business and Corporate Law Section
  • LEInternational, Past chair of the Commercial Dispute Practice Group
  • John Wayne Airport Group (Provisors), Executive Committee member
  • Provisors, Member
  • Vistage, Member
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