Kenneth R. Charette - Allentown, PA

Overview

Awards and Honors

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Education

• Legal Education

  • Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University, Carlisle, Pennsylvania
    J.D.
    Honors: summa cum laude
    Honors: Woolsack Honor Society
    Law Review: The Penn State Law Review, Comments Editor
  • Cambridge University Faculty Board of Law The Old Schools, Cambridge, England
    LL.M.

• Non Legal Education

  • Michigan State University
    B.A.

Current Employment Position(s)

• Shareholder

Past Positions

• Chief Justice Robert P. Young, Jr., The Michigan Supreme Court, Detroit, Michigan, Law Clerk
• The United Nations’ International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, The Hague, Netherlands, Legal Intern
• PA Office of the Attorney General, Bureau of Consumer Protection, State College, Pennsylvania , Legal Intern

Pro Bono Activities

• Phoebe Ministries, Audit, Finance and Investment Committee, Member, 2019 – Present
• Center for Humanistic Change – Vice President of the Board of Directors
• United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley Emerging Leader

Representative Clients

• Represented a cryogenic instrument, vessel, and piping company in connection with the sale of its business to an internationally recognized strategic buyer

• Represents Factory LLC, an innovative venture capital firm, with a one-of-its-kind “scale-up” facility that was purposefully built for food, beverage, and pet companies in connection with numerous acquisitions, investments, and other transactions

• Represented Hidden Meadows on the Ridge Senior Living Community in connection with the sale of its personal care and memory care facilities

• Represented shareholders of an online retailer of private-label and third-party home improvement products in connection with the sale of the Company to a private-equity backed strategic buyer for $35,000,000

• Represented numerous “angel” investors in connection with Series Seed, Series A, and other financing investments in both domestic and international companies

• Represents many food and beverage companies in connection with acquisitions, sales, investments, co-manufacturer agreements, supply/vendor agreements, endorsement agreements and other transactional matters

• Represented Computer Designs, Inc. (and various affiliated entities) in the sale of its thermoforming business to Nelipack Corporation, which involved facilities in three states and Puerto Rico

• Represented Signallamp Health Inc., a pioneer in providing remotely embedded nurse care managers to physicians, in connection with the structuring, negotiation, and completion of its Series A financing with Sopris Capital, a venture capital firm, and its Series B financing with a prominent regional health care network

• Represented physician-group in the acquisition of a multi-specialty pain management practice and related real estate

• Represented the buyer in connection with the acquisition of two FCC licensed A.M. radio stations

• Represented publicly traded communications company in connection with various internal corporate governance matters and other transactions

• Represented a regional early learning company in the sale of its multi-location business to an international, private equity-backed, strategic buyer

• Represented a regional food production company in connection with the sale of its business, and related real estate, to a private equity-backed strategic buyer

• Represented an internationally recognized camera and medical device company with multiple tax-free internal reorganizations and other transactions

• Represented a regional health network in connection with the formation of a hospital-physician joint-venture ambulatory surgery center (“ASC”) project. The ASC project involved, among other items, providing advice with transaction structure, helping the client navigate a complex regulatory framework, and conducting a private equity raise pursuant to Regulation D, Rule 506

• Represented a strategic investment firm in connection with a Seed-Preferred Investment in a Canadian corporation

• Represented numerous clients in connection with the sale or acquisition of various franchised businesses (e.g., automotive vehicle dealerships, restaurants, etc.)

Bar Admissions

• Pennsylvania
• New Jersey