Jorge Salva has served as outside general counsel entrepreneurs, family businesses, early-stage and mature closely held companies across numerous industries, including IT consulting, pharmacies, chiropractic, urgent-care centers, manufacturing, retail, wholesale distribution, franchising, as well as licensed professionals including architects, accountants, and independent financial advisors.  Mr. Salva has advised and negotiated a wide variety of transactions from entity formation, corporate finance, asset-based lending, and mergers & acquisitions.  Mr. Salva is dedicated and experienced in negotiation and structuring his clients’ transactions in a manner that achieves their business goals while minimizing legal risks of post-closing disputes and litigation. Jorge is admitted before the Bars for the State and Federal Bars for New York and New Jersey.

Jorge Salva has nearly 20 years of legal experience beginning as a corporate associate at Paul Hastings LLP.  Prior to forming his own practice, Mr. Salva has also practiced as a litigator with prominent New York-area mid-size law firms representing middle-market firms, fortune 500 companies, and global insurers on complex commercial disputes involving breach of contract, civil fraud, tortious interference, corporate governance, shareholder-derivative suits, debtor-creditor-law restrictive covenants and non-competes, unfair competition and trade secret misappropriation, employer-side FLSA wage and hour claims, litigation arising from the liquidation of Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC and the Chapter 7 Trustee of Bernard L. Madoff in connection with the recovery of assets for creditors of Madoff’s Ponzi scheme, and first-party commercial insurance coverage claims arising out of Hurricane Katrina.

Jorge received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Salva graduated from Columbia University, obtaining his B.A. in Economics. Prior to law school, he was also employed for several years as an analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he gained substantial experience in financial analysis and accounting.