MEMBERS
T.J. Herten
A. Burstein
P.F. Sheridan, Jr.
A.J. Cevasco
T.P. Bottinelli
A.D. Litt
S.B. Harz
P. Papalia
R.J. Contant
S.M. Marra
T.S. McGuire
A.T. Fede
G.A.Pietrafesa
S.D. Jacobson
M.I. Lubin
N.O. DeScherer
D.Y. Gielchinsky

ASSOCIATES
P. Ascolese
L.R. Bicocchi
C.P. Bossong
T.J. Fagan
C.B. Hand
L.J.C. Hardesty, Jr.
M.R. Olszak
D.C. Ritson
K.K. Ruggiero
E.S. Thompson

OF COUNSEL
J.T. Shafron
W.H. Schmidt, Jr.
D.S. Steinberg
L.C. Tomasella
C. Brooks
D.L. Mulligan

SPECIAL COUNSEL
G.C. Escala

DIRECTOR OF
OPERATIONS
D. Polizzotto

ATTORNEY MAIN PAGE

Leonard J. C. Hardesty, JR.

Leonard J.C. Hardesty, Jr. provides expertise to Herten Burstein in the areas of sophisticated corporate transactions and general corporate law. He has extensive experience representing both publicly and privately held companies in acquisitions, divestitures and mergers. In addition, Mr. Hardesty has represented public and private organizations with respect to start-up ventures; franchise and licensing agreements; joint ventures; employment, confidentiality, termination, and retention agreements; shareholder buy-sell agreements, operating agreements, and partnership agreements; and a broad range of other commercial agreements, including the preparation and negotiation of commercial leases. With a Master's Degree in Taxation, Mr. Hardesty brings particular expertise in corporate and partnership tax analysis. He has managed complex federal and state tax controversies, representing such matters before the United States Tax Court and the New Jersey State Tax Court.

Mr. Hardesty is a 1992 graduate of Purdue University, where he earned a B.S. degree in Economics. He was also graduated from the Stillman School of Business at Seton Hall University in 1995, with an M.B.A. in Accounting. He received his J.D. from Seton Hall University School of Law in 1998, and his LL.M. in Taxation from New York University School of Law in 2001. While attending law school, he served as clerk in the District Counsel's office of the Internal Revenue Service, and subsequently, as assistant to Corporation Counsel, International Tax Group, of a major corporation. His present professional affiliations include the New Jersey Bar Association (Taxation Section) and the Bergen County Bar Association.

Purdue University
(B.S. 1992)

Seton Hall University - Stillman School of Business
(M.B.A. 1995)

Seton Hall University School of Law
(J.D. 1998)

New York University School of Law
(LL.M. 2001)

New Jersey
New York