Adrienne concentrates her practice in corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity financing, fund formation, corporate governance issues, and other contractual and transactional matters. She represents venture capital firms and startup companies in connection with formation and organizational issues, negotiation of shareholder agreements, limited liability company and partnership agreements, and private equity offerings.
Adrienne has also counseled banks and non-bank financial service companies on a range of consumer financial service matters such as fair lending, Electronic Fund Transfer Act (Regulation E), Truth in Lending Act (Regulation Z), Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), state retail installment sale laws and debt collection.
Before joining the firm, Adrienne was an associate at a nationally recognized, AmLaw 200 firm. In law school, Adrienne interned for the Honorable Judge Juan Sánchez in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and for the Honorable Judge Thomas Branca in the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas.
Villanova University School of Law, J.D.
– Articles Editor, Villanova Law Review
Colgate University, B.A., cum laude
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Named a Pennsylvania Rising Star by Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters for Business and Corporate Law (2018, 2022)*
Author, “Pennsylvania Creates COVID-19 Hospitality Industry Recovery Grant Program,” March 10, 2021
Author, “The SBA has Updated the Paycheck Protection Program to Encourage More Aid to the Smallest Businesses,” March 5, 2021
Presenter, “Understanding the Second Draw Paycheck Protection Program (PPP),” Accredited CLE Program, February 10, 2021
Author, “Philadelphia’s COVID-19 Restaurant and Gym Relief Program is Accepting Applications,” February 9, 2021
Author, “Philadelphia Ordinance Provides Restaurants with a Six-Month Eviction Moratorium and Rental Relief,” December 11, 2020
Author, “Remote Online Notarization in Pennsylvania is Here to Stay,” December 3, 2020
Author, “IRS Expands List of Forms that can be Signed Digitally,” October 6, 2020
Author, “Philadelphia Expands Emergency Paid Sick Leave Benefits,” October 5, 2020
Author, “COVID-19 Restrictions Loosened to Allow Limited Indoor Dining in Philadelphia“, August 21, 2020
Author, “COVID-19 Testing Strategies for the Workplace,” July 28, 2020
Author, “Restaurants and Bars in Pennsylvania Imposed with New Restrictions,” July 17, 2020
Author, “What To Do When Essential Workers Are Exposed To COVID-19,” July 10, 2020
Author, “What to do when an employee tests positive for COVID-19,” June 19, 2020
Author, “Calif. Commercial Lease Hardship Bill May Be Unconstitutional,” Law360, June 12, 2020
Author, “Closing Deals During COVID-19,” May 18, 2020
Author, “SBA Extends Deadline for Returning PPP Loan Funds,” May 15, 2020
Author, “SBA Imposes Loan Limit and Audit Requirement for Certain PPP Borrowers,” May 1, 2020
Author, “New Remote Online Notarization Requirements in Response to COVID-19,” April 22, 2020
Author, “Clarification on Loan Eligibility Requirements for Construction and Other Small Businesses,” April 9, 2020
Author, “New Jersey Bans Cashless Stores and Restaurants,” Corporate Alert, March 21, 2019
Author, “Philadelphia to Ban Cashless Stores,” Corporate Alert, March 11, 2019
Author, “Newly Adopted OCC Raise Institutional and Personal Exposure for Banks and Bankers,” co-author, Journal of Taxation and Regulation of Financial Institutions, Vol. 90, No. 2, Winter 2017
Author, “Window Shopping on Healthcare.gov and the State-Based Marketplaces: More Consumer Support is Needed,” co-author, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Data Brief, December 17, 2014