Karen Abbott
Karen D. Abbott joined Company Counsel as Senior Counsel in 2021. Karen provides general counsel services to entrepreneurial individuals and companies, with a focus on drafting and negotiating critical third-party relationship agreements, such as licensing, distribution, consulting, strategic partnership and all manner of customer and service provider agreements. She also advises companies on equity and convertible financings, employment issues, corporate governance, general corporate and other transactional matters.
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Prior to joining Company Counsel, Karen worked in higher education for fifteen years serving as General Counsel at three different institutions of higher education. There she provided advice and counsel to senior team members in areas as diverse as employment, licensing, privacy, corporate and general contract law. Before going into higher education, Karen’s career included positions at major law firms in Boston and New York, as a law clerk to a United States District Court judge, and in house positions at a publicly traded software company and as general counsel to a venture backed startup technology company.
Karen received a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Syracuse University and a Bachelors of Arts, cum laude, from Hamilton College.
Karen is admitted to the bars of Massachusetts and New York.
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Karen may be reached at:
Karen D. Abbott, Esq.
Company Counsel, LLC
Phone: (617) 840-5031
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