Rachel Lilienthal Stark is a Shareholder and Chair of the Business & Corporate Group, as well as a member of the Banking & Financial Services, Business & Corporate, Intellectual Property, and Non-Profit Organization Groups. Ms. Stark concentrates her practice in the representation of start-up and emerging companies and non-profit organizations on a variety of issues including corporate formation, financing, franchising, licensing, acquisitions, executive compensation, equity compensation plans, employment agreements, real estate, and intellectual property law. Ms. Stark also represents lenders in commercial loan transactions.
Before joining Stark & Stark, Ms. Stark worked as an associate for the New York City law firm of Cahill Gordon & Reindel. She also served as a summer intern for The Honorable Anne E. Thompson, Chief Judge of the United States District Court, District of New Jersey and as a staff assistant to Senator Frank R. Lautenberg in Washington, D.C.
Ms. Stark is a frequent guest lecturer on business law, family business, and succession planning at Rider University, having served on the Executive Advisory Council of Rider University’s College of Business Administration and Entrepreneurial Studies program. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Princeton Mercer Chamber of Commerce (where she currently serves as Chair of the Committee on Directors), the Business Law Section Board of Directors of the New Jersey State Bar Association, and as a trustee of the Princeton YMCA/YWCA.
Ms. Stark is a frequent contributor to the New Jersey Law Blog. You can read her most recent blog post here.