Bio

Norman Kallen dedicates his practice to advising clients in diverse business and transactional matters. A substantial portion of his practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions for middle and lower middle market companies in an array of industries. Norman completes numerous M & A transactions annually, valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. In addition, he is a sought-after speaker on M & A thought leadership, appearing at numerous forums and CLE presentations throughout the year. In addition to his robust M & A practice, Norman provides pivotal legal frameworks around divestitures, financings, corporate restructurings and capitalization; joint ventures, shareholder/member agreements and disputes; marketing, distributorship and licensing agreements; and other commercial contracts. He also counsels start-up and mature closely-held and family-owned businesses in all facets of the business life cycle, including capital raising (private equity, angel funding, and debt financing), growth strategy, shareholder/owner issues, business succession planning, turnaround and restructuring, and employee/employer issues including executive level employment and equity compensation issues. With a background as corporate counsel to a start-up software technology company, Norman has first-hand experience in advisory regarding software and technology development and licensing, including joint development agreements, protection against exploitation of intellectual property, strategic alliances and related venture capital and early-stage funding. As a result of this in-house experience, Norman brings legal acumen and business insight to his clients to help them effectively and efficiently achieve their immediate and strategic goals. Prior to BMK, Norman served as General Counsel for a New Jersey-based software technology company. Before moving in-house in 2000, he was a partner in the law firm of Ravin, Sarasohn, Cook, Baumgarten, Fisch and Rosen, P.C. Previously, he practiced in the corporate department at Sills Cummis. Norman is admitted to practice in New Jersey and the United States Tax Court. He earned a J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law, an LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law, an M.B.A. from Rutgers University Graduate School of Management and a B.A. from Rutgers University.