Andrew Grossman
Mr. Grossman is an associate practicing in the firm’s transactional group, where he focuses on a broad array of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, commercial agreements, financings, and corporate formation. He provides counsel to clients from a variety of industries, such as food and beverage, technology, and real estate.
Prior to joining CMPR, he was an associate corporate counsel at a cybersecurity company, where he advised international cross-functional departments on corporate and technology matters, and at a national managed healthcare company, where he advised on HIPPA and partnership agreements and handled strategic acquisitions.
Andrew graduated from UCLA School of Law. He received his B.A. from UC San Diego in three years, graduating summa cum laude and winning best honors thesis. He is admitted to practice in the State of California.
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Joy Holloway
Ms. Holloway is a transactional attorney and a member of our food and beverage group. Prior to joining CMPR, she was in-house counsel at Samsung where she negotiated and drafted contracts governing the movement of products worldwide. In that role, Joy also bought and sold companies gaining invaluable experience with mergers and acquisitions and securities work, including venture capital and private equity.
She has also worked with B corps or benefit corporations. She has assisted a number of corporations seamlessly transition to B-corp status by working with directors, officers, shareholders, and the company’s vision.
Joy’s practice began in Washington DC at Eversheds Sutherland in the financial services and energy industries. In that position, she advised companies on a variety of issues ranging from intellectual property matters, California employment-related compliance, and international and domestic commercial contracts for transport.
James Sansone
James (Jim) V. Sansone is a litigation and trial associate with CMPR. Jim has been practicing in Northern California since 2006 and holds an AVVO rating of 9.3 (10.0 is the highest). Jim has successfully tried a wide variety of civil and bankruptcy legal disputes over his legal career in both State and Federal Court.
Jim also holds a position as an adjunct professor at Santa Rosa Junior College teaching Business Law and Introduction to Law for Paralegals in their Business Administration Department.
Prior to joining CMPR, Jim owned, operated, and managed a robust general civil litigation law firm (2009-2019). Litigating approximately 1,000 trials over this period, Jim was able to showcase his gift for being a tenacious, no nonsense, and straight forward attorney.