ATTORNEY PROFILE

RICHARD B. PUMILIA - rpumilia@pumilia.com

Richard Pumilia is a partner of Pumilia Patel & Adamec LLP.  He is in charge of the firm’s corporate and business transactional practice.  He has practiced corporate and business law since graduating from law school in 1984, and has managed the firm’s business law practice since 1993.

Mr. Pumilia’s practice involves representing business clients in matters such as the purchase and sale of assets; mergers and other acquisitions; capital-raising transactions, such as private placements of securities and venture capital investment; the formation of business entities, including corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships; the preparation and review of business contracts, including distributorship agreements, employment agreements, license agreements, operating agreements and shareholders’ agreements; and day-to-day counseling on a variety of legal matters that affect businesses.

Mr. Pumilia’s practice philosophy is high-quality representation of business clients at a competitive price; taking a business-oriented approach to solving legal problems; and dealing with legal issues pro-actively so as to minimize the occurrences of disputes.

Mr. Pumilia’s clients are typically mid-sized businesses, with annual sales of between $2MM and $200MM, with operations in Southern California.  However, he does represent several “start-up” entities with revenues currently below this range.

Mr. Pumilia graduated magna cum laude from Washington and Jefferson College, and graduated with honors from Rutgers Law School, where he served as an editor of The Rutgers Computer and Technology Law Journal.  He is a member of the Business Law Section of the State Bar of California, and is the leader of the Pasadena group of ProVisors, an organization of senior-level professionals providing services to middle-market companies.  Mr. Pumilia is also a member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG),  a global organization for professional involved in corporate growth, corporate development and mergers and acquisitions.