Professional Bio
Sean advises companies, business owners, boards of directors, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) trustees on transactional, corporate governance, and formation matters related to the design and implementation of ESOPs. Sean’s work includes drafting and negotiating agreements and other documents for stock purchases, leveraged buyouts, mergers, reorganizations, and corporate governance and formation matters.
Sean began his career as a corporate transactional lawyer, focusing on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, fund services, venture financing, and marketplace/P2P lending. His experience also includes advising nonprofit, charitable, and other tax-exempt organizations and social enterprises.
Sean is a member of Stevens & Lee’s ESOP Group and works with its affiliated business SES ESOP Strategies. He advises private funds, independent sponsors, companies, business owners, boards of directors, and employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) trustees on transactional, corporate governance and formation matters related to the design and implementation of ESOPs and advises clients on general corporate matters and mergers and acquisitions. Sean is a frequent guest speaker on a range of employee ownership topics.
Sean is a Kellogg Fellow at the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations. He coordinates the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing’s W.K. Kellogg Foundation program, which helps minority and female business owners and their advisors learn about employee ownership transitions.
He is a member of the board of directors of Empowered Ventures, an ESOP-owned holding company headquartered in Indiana, an advisory board member of Talley Management Group, an employee-owned company based in New Jersey, and he is the secretary of the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Business Law Section.
In addition to his professional work, Sean serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Independence Mission Schools, a network of 14 independent Catholic schools providing a transformative education to children of all faiths across Philadelphia, and Nutritional Development Services of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia, an organization dedicated to alleviating food insecurity in Southeastern Pennsylvania.
