Jeanette Kernizan Adelson
Jeanette Kernizan Adelson advises clients on a range of corporate and transactional matters, including complex US and cross-border asset purchases divestitures and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) involving public and private companies. Her experience encompasses a variety of corporate matters, including strategic investments, carve-outs, joint ventures, restructurings and other strategic business transactions. Jeanette combines legal and business perspectives with her diverse background in M&A transactions in the technology, financial services, life sciences, and insurance industries. A member of the firm’s emerging companies and venture capital practice, Jeanette represents established and emerging growth companies and the investors that finance them on a wide range of matters, including capital raises and commercial transactions.
Jeanette also maintains an active pro bono practice involving many areas of public interest law, including asylum, citizenship, and not-for-profit organizations. Jeanette is fluent in Haitian Creole.
While in law school, Jeanette interned at that National Center for Law and Economic Justice and a social impact-focused law firm. Jeanette was the co-chair of the Black Law Students Association, a lawyering fellow for Northeastern University’s School of Law Legal Skills and Social Justice Partnerships program, and a student advocate for the law school’s Community Business Clinic, and she was awarded the prestigious Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy Scholar Award. Additionally, while in law school, Jeanette co-founded Foundation of Freedom, a nonprofit focused on economic empowerment throughout the African diaspora.
