Business & Tax
 
  Securities
 
Ken Abel handles business and securities matters at Ober|Kaler.  

    

Kenneth B. Abel
Principal
  kbabel@ober.com
410-347-7394
443-263-7594 fax
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  Experience  

Ken is co-chair of the firm's Business & Tax Group. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions, security matters and general business representation. Ken has extensive experience in preparing public and private offering documents and drafting and negotiating asset and stock purchase agreements, merger agreements, employment agreements, non-competition agreements, stockholders' agreements, business contracts and business organizational documents, including corporate, limited liability and limited partnership documents. Ken has particular experience in Maryland corporate law.

 
 
    Admitted

Court of Appeals of Maryland

 
 
  Education

University of Maryland School of Law, J.D., with honors, 1992

Order of the Coif (4th of 206)
The Business Lawyer, Student Editor, 1991-1992

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, B.S., magna cum laude, 1988

 
 
   Professional & Community

American Bar Association

Section on Business Law

Maryland State Bar Association

Section of Business Law, Section Council Member
Committee on Securities Law, Chair
Committee on Corporation Law
Committee on Unincorporated Business Associations

 
 
   Honoraries

Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law Category (Woodward/White, Inc.), 2008

Listed in Chambers USA, America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2005, 2006, 2007

 
 
   Publications & Presentations

Author, Doing Business in States Other Than the State of Incorporation, Maryland Chapter, Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.

Author, The Maryland Corporation: Legal Aspects of Organization and Operation, Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.

 
 
   Professional Background

Clerk to the Honorable Lawrence F. Rodowsky, Court of Appeals of Maryland, 1992-1993