Robert A. Adelson

Robert A. Adelson has been a corporate, tax, and contracts attorney for more than 25 years and is the principal at Adelson & Associates, LLC in Boston, MA. He has an advanced LLM degree in tax law from NYU. He represents C-Suite and high-level executives and works to negotiate their non-compete and restrictive covenants, job offers, equity terms, employment contracts, retention agreements, and severance and separation agreements.

Robert A. Adelson is an Executive Council member at the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn.

CEO Insights

Negotiating Your Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Growth Officer or Chief Transformation Officer Contract

CEO InsightsRobert A. Adelson

As companies increasingly recognize the importance of setting a winning direction for expansion, change, and evolution, the demand for C-level executives to drive, manage and sustain organizational growth increases.  Roles such as Chief Strategy Officer (CSO), Chief Growth Officer (CGO) and Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) have been created to address the...

Special Reports

Keeping and Using Your Ace in the Hole in Negotiating Your C-level Executive Contract

Special ReportsRobert A. Adelson

When negotiating your next C-level executive contract, your instinct might be to lay all your cards on the table, impressing your potential employer with everything you can bring to the organization. However, I would advise, based on my experience representing C-suite executives, that by holding back a little - keeping...

CEO Briefing

Impact of Titles on Your Executive Career – Negotiating Job Titles and more!

CEO BriefingRobert A. Adelson

The saying goes “Don’t Judge a Book by the Cover” but the fact is we all do. Perhaps a more accurate saying is “You only get one chance to make a good first impression,” so you should make the most of it. That’s why, in your career as a C-level...

CEO Insider

Impact of Titles on Your Executive Career – Negotiating Job Titles and more!

CEO InsiderRobert A. Adelson

CEO Agenda

Fighting the Double Trigger as Free Labor vs Slavery II: Negotiating with a Public Company Change of Control Acceleration Terms

CEO AgendaRobert A. Adelson

A change of control, such as in a merger/acquisition, can have significant implications for the C-suite executive. You may face the risk of getting laid off, reduction in compensation and benefits, changes in reporting structure, restrictions in seeking new employment due to non-compete or non-disclosure agreements, and much more. Offsetting...

CEO Agenda

4 Reasons to Seek Executive Employment Advice Even Before You Receive a CEO Job Offer

CEO AgendaRobert A. Adelson

As a CEO or C-level executive, you may well be receiving calls or emails from recruiters with new positions for your consideration, or alternatively, it could be you that is initiating the process seeking out new opportunities due to dissatisfaction with your current position or employment termination that finds you...

CEO Agenda

Fighting the Double Trigger as free labor vs slavery: How to negotiate your own Change of Control acceleration terms

CEO AgendaRobert A. Adelson

CEO Advisory

IP Ownership as Leverage for Founder Equity Negotiations

CEO AdvisoryRobert A. Adelson

For startup founders, what can be more exciting and fulfilling than successfully growing your company and gaining new and more funding as investors’ confidence in your company’s prospects grow? But there is a flip side to this - equity dilution. Equity dilution occurs when new investors are brought in and...

Executive Insider

Navigating Past Clawbacks to take a Competitor’s C-level Job Offer

Executive InsiderRobert A. Adelson

For many C-level and senior executives, non-compete covenants are reinforced not only by injunction and “golden handcuffs” but by severe company clawback rights that can pose a significant and even crippling financial hazard to executives who want to leave or even test the waters with a competitor. If you are...

CEO Agenda

Forming a competing company to take 100% ownership of the business you built

CEO AgendaRobert A. Adelson

The bold response when your employer reneges on promise of shared ownership. There are times when the owner or owners of a company need specific knowledge or capabilities to retain or develop new business or exploit a perceived opportunity, and thus willingly offer equity and shared ownership in order to...

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Robert A. Adelson

Negotiating Your Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Growth Officer or Chief Transformation Officer Contract

Keeping and Using Your Ace in the Hole in Negotiating Your C-level Executive Contract

Impact of Titles on Your Executive Career – Negotiating Job Titles and more!

Impact of Titles on Your Executive Career – Negotiating Job Titles and more!

Fighting the Double Trigger as Free Labor vs Slavery II: Negotiating with a Public Company Change of Control Acceleration Terms

4 Reasons to Seek Executive Employment Advice Even Before You Receive a CEO Job Offer

Fighting the Double Trigger as free labor vs slavery: How to negotiate your own Change of Control acceleration terms

IP Ownership as Leverage for Founder Equity Negotiations

Navigating Past Clawbacks to take a Competitor’s C-level Job Offer

Forming a competing company to take 100% ownership of the business you built

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