Solving Your Corporate Legal Needs Efficiently and Effectively.
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NDA Review Services
The experienced BusinessPoint Law team has a proven track record of providing sophisticated corporate clients with high-volume NDA processing services that are more efficient and cost-effective than its competitors, offering flexible billing arrangements designed to meet the client’s needs.
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Executive Compensation
BusinessPoint Law can draw on well over a decade of experience working with sophisticated financial institutions and their portfolio companies in a variety of industries to structure employment, severance, retention and compensation arrangements that meet the unique needs of each of its clients.
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Employment
BusinessPoint Law can advise boards of directors, C-suite executives and Human Resources professionals how to navigate the most difficult employment-related issues, including complicated wage and hour and discrimination issues and reductions in force (RIFs).
About Founder Joel Gulick
Joel Gulick has been practicing law in the Washington, DC area for more than 20 years. Before he founded BusinessPoint Law, Mr. Gulick spent more than 15 years as senior in-house counsel at large, publicly traded private equity and asset management firms. Mr. Gulick started his legal career by spending five years at Arnold & Porter LLP, an AmLaw Top 50 Law Firm. He has been a trusted advisor to Boards of Directors, C-suite executives and investment professionals at companies ranging from multibillion dollar alternative asset managers to small, founder-owned portfolio companies.
Some of his career highlights include:
Mergers & Acquisitions: Mr. Gulick was responsible for all employment law, employee benefits and executive compensation issues during the $5 billion acquisition of American Capital by Ares Capital. He has also executed on numerous aspects of dozens of portfolio company buyouts and exit transactions valued at over $3 billion.
Executive Compensation: Mr. Gulick led the employee benefits and executive compensation function at his previous employer, where he was responsible for structuring, analyzing and negotiating hundreds of employment, severance, retention and change-of-control agreements, equity compensation plan documents and agreements, sale bonus arrangements, qualified and non-qualified deferred compensation plans and consulting agreements both for his employer and its portfolio companies.
Employment and Labor Law: Mr. Gulick has counseled boards of directors, senior management, internal client groups and C-suite portfolio company executives on a full range of employment law matters, including issues relating to Title VII, the ADA, the ADEA, the FLSA and analogous state laws, service provider classification, the WARN Act and state mini-WARN Acts, the FMLA and state leave laws, immigration and workers’ compensation.
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Education
The George Washington University Law School (J.D. with High Honors)
Gettysburg College (B.A., Cum Laude)
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Bar Admissions
Washington, D.C.
Virginia
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Honors & Recognition
Twice Voted To DCA Live's List of Top Corporate Counsel
ACC-NCR Leadership Academy Fellow
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