Paul A. Share is a partner in Barton’s corporate group.
Paul represents clients at every stage of a business’s life cycle including mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, financings and sale transactions. Together with his colleagues at Barton, Paul counsels clients on intellectual property matters, litigation, licensing, and labor & employment issues. Drawing upon his decades of experience, Paul acts as general counsel to founders, owners and managers of various sized businesses from start-ups to much larger businesses.
Paul has an active practice representing borrowers in commercial lending transactions. He is often relied upon by other law firms from around the U.S. to issue enforceability opinions and provide New York law guidance on those transactions.
Paul’s expansive industry experience ranges from the traditional to the innovative including real estate, travel, software developers, intellectual property, art, entertainment, marketing, and technology.
Education
Wayne State University – J.D.
University of Michigan – B.A.
Admissions
State of New York
United States Supreme Court
Eastern District of New York
Southern District of New York
Practices
Business Transactions
Labor & Employment
Intellectual Property
Industry Experience
Advertising, Marketing, and Public Relations
Art, Fashion, Beauty, and Design
Entertainment
Finance
Real Estate
Technology
Representative Matters
Acted as general counsel for a corporate travel agency and its subsequent sale. In that capacity, represented the owners in numerous agreements with their corporate clients, as well as several joint venture agreements and litigations.
Acted as general counsel and advised the founders of a website development company in leaving their former employer without violating non-disclosure or non-compete obligations, helped them form the company, negotiated, and drafted the shareholders agreement, and represented the client concerning its engagement agreements with its various clients, many of whom were Fortune 1000 Companies.
Represented a worldwide supplier of military batteries, in a wide range of matters including the acquisition and the sale of various subsidiaries and affiliated entities, drafting various benefit plans for key and other employees.
Represented the owners of the intellectual property relating to “Conan the Barbarian” in the sale of this intellectual property first to a public company for stock, and then when the public company went bankrupt, in recovering the intellectual property from the bankruptcy estate and reselling it for cash to a European buyer.
Acted as general counsel of a market research company, for over 15 years, representing them with various contracts, shareholder and employee matters, and real estate transactions and financings.
Acted as general counsel for the developer of software to catalog and manage artworks at major museums throughout the world. Helped negotiate software licenses with dozens of major museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The MOMA, the Getty Museum, the Guggenheim Museum, the Tate Museum, and the Smithsonian, and represented the company when it was sold to the owner of several software companies.