Corporate Business Law Attorney | Business Lawyer

Business Law Center of the Palm Beaches
Jay E. Eckhaus, P.A. Member Florida, New York and Ohio Bars

Member of Florida, New York and Ohio Bars

Attorney Profile

Business Transactions | Mergers & Acquisitions | Business Formations & Dissolutions
Contracts | Employment Law | Franchising | Business Counseling
Intellectual Property & Technology | Estate Planning / Succession Planning for Family Businesses
E-Commerce & Cyber Law | Commercial Real Estate

Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
561.630.4800

Jay E. Eckhaus, Esq. has practiced business law for more than 35 years, and is a member of the Florida, New York and Ohio Bars. Business Law Highlights.

He is an Executive Trustee of the Northern Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce where he served as Co-Chair of the Chamber's Government/Legislative Affairs Committee and is a member of the Chamber's Small Business Council. He previously served as Chairman of the Palm Beach County Business Incubator, Inc. Jay is an arbitrator for FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (formerly NASD).

Jay’s business law experience is gained at the highest levels of Corporate America and in Private Practice.
Following 4 years of business law and real estate law practice in New York City, Jay was recruited by Kraft/General Foods Corporation, White Plains, New York to become the primary antitrust, marketing and franchise attorney for its Burger Chef Systems franchising subsidiary.

While practicing franchise law with Burger Chef, Jay wrote the company’s first Uniform Franchise Offering Circular following the Federal Trade Commission’s adoption of the franchise rules.

The next 16 years with Kraft/General Foods bought Jay ever-increasing responsibility. He was extensively involved in business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, employment issues, corporate finance, securities, consumer affairs, franchising and distributing, advertising and marketing, intellectual property, antitrust, crisis management, arbitration and litigation.

Jay’s involvement in mergers and acquisitions included: Acquisition of Oscar Meyer & Company, Acquisition of Entenmann’s Inc., Acquisition of Mexican Foods of America, Inc., Acquisition of Charles Freihofer Baking Company, Sale of Burger Chef Systems, Inc., Sale of Merriwether’s Restaurants, Inc. and Sale of Mexican Foods of America, Inc.

In the area of corporate finance, Jay was involved in the $100 million Guaranteed Debentures offering of GFC International Finance NV and the $3,300,000 Delaware Economic Development Authority Pollution Control Revenue Bonds transaction.

Jay’s other accomplishments while at Kraft/General Foods include (1) responsibility for all FTC and Department of Justice filings under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Pre-Merger Notification Act. (2) Chairing the Post cereals consumer advertising review Board. (3) Challenges to competitive advertising at the National Advertising Division, Better Business Bureau and at TV networks.

Jay ultimately becoming Vice President and Chief Counsel of General Foods Bakery Companies, Inc., a company with more than one billion dollars in annual sales and selling products under the Entenmann’s, Oroweat, Boboli, and Freihofer’s trademarks.

Jay is a founding member of the Corporate Counsel Section of the New York State Bar Association. While a member of the Corporate Counsel Section, Jay was elected to the Executive Committee and Chaired both the Mergers and Acquisitions Committee and the Commercial Arbitration and Litigation Committee.

Following Kraft/General Foods, Jay became Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the U.S. operations of the leading Swedish technology and manufacturing multinational company, Alfa-Laval, where he focused on commercial and technology transactions, employment law and risk management.

Jay reentered the private practice of business law in New York City in 1991.

In 1998, Jay became Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of a NASDAQ traded marketer of point-of-care medical diagnostic products for use at home, in physician offices, and other healthcare locations where his practice concentrated on business transactions, technology licensing, distributing, corporate finance and employment law.

In 2001, Jay established his current Business Law practice in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

He is the creator of FingerTipManuals.com which provides employers with employee handbooks individualized for each state; in English and Spanish.

His education includes a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Degree from Bowling Green State University where he concentrated in marketing and management and received a Juris Doctor Degree from The Ohio State University.

In 1995, The Ohio State University Alumni Association awarded Jay the Individual Accomplishment Award. At the time of the award, Jay was the president of The Ohio State Alumni Club of Greater New York City.

Recently, Jay received the Volunteer of the Year Award from the Northern Palm Beach County Chamber of Commerce.

Business Law Center of the Palm Beaches

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9121 North Military Trail | Suite 107 | Palm Beach Gardens | Florida 33410 | 561.630.4800