PURPOSE
The purpose of this site is to provide information on negotiating and structuring executive employment agreements to clients and friends of Borghese Law Firm, and students, faculty and alumni of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. The site includes a Powerpoint presentation on Negotiating and Structuring Executive Employment Agreements which has been delivered to alumni of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and the Harvard Business School. It also includes a Checklist for Drafting Employment Agreements, and Examples of Employment Agreements with executives of publicly-traded companies. The information contained on this website is provided for educational purposes only. No legal advice is being rendered, and neither the transmission nor receipt of information contained on this website, or any inquiry or response to a question in the Ask the Expert box is intended to create an attorney-client relationship.

BIOGRAPHY
Robert J. Borghese is a corporate attorney in private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and New York, New York. He specializes in providing legal and business advisory services to emerging growth companies in the technology, healthcare and financial services sectors.

Mr. Borghese regularly advises emerging growth companies on corporate strategic planning, debt and equity financings, and corporate legal and transactional issues including corporate mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, and executive employment agreements.

Mr. Borghese is a member of the faculty of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches courses on legal issues for growth companies in the Wharton M.B.A. and Executive M.B.A. programs. He is the author of M&A from Planning to Integration: Executing Acquisitions and Increasing Shareholder Value, published by McGraw-Hill in February, 2002 and forthcoming in a Chinese language version. He has appeared as a guest on CNBC's Power Lunch and CNNfn's Money Gang to discuss corporate mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he has lectured extensively on strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, executive employment agreements, and legal issues for emerging growth companies.

Mr. Borghese is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has an M.A. in financial economics from King's College, Cambridge University, England, and a B.S. in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.