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Yale B. Eisen is Of Counsel in Goldberg Kohn's Corporate Practice Group. An attorney, former in-house legal counsel, and long-time senior business executive, he offers clients strategic business counsel on a range of corporate legal issues. He advises private equity, family offices, privately held companies and startups on a variety of complex transactional matters, including domestic and cross-border mergers, acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, debt and equity financing, and other transactions.

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Yale also provides general corporate advice to clients, which includes structuring and reviewing commercial agreements, including master services agreements, consulting agreements, employment agreements, customer agreements, vendor agreements and nondisclosure agreements.

Yale joined Goldberg Kohn in May 2026. Previously, he served as an Advisor to Hood Container Corporation, which acquired his family owned business, Ideal Box Co., in 2017. Following the acquisition, Yale served as General Manager of Hood's Chicago Box and Display Plant from 2017 to 2024, managing facility level P&amp;L, directing capital projects, implementing corporate KPI's, developing a new product line, and supporting the pivot to the Hood Container integration value proposition.

As Owner, Board of Directors Member and Chief Operating Officer of Ideal Box Co., Yale achieved sales of $100 million-plus with double-digit EBITDA margins. He was engaged in the purchase of a subsidiary display sales and design business in Los Angeles and launched a display sales and design office in Cincinnati. In addition, Yale oversaw the day-to-day operations of the safety, manufacturing, logistics, warehouse, finance, accounting, purchasing, legal, and human resources departments.

Prior to joining Ideal Box Co. in 2002, Yale held in-house corporate counsel positions with Classified Ventures, LLC, and Sears Roebuck and Co., handling day-to-day legal and regulatory work; counseling on mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; and drafting and negotiating a variety of agreements. He began his legal career with the law firm of Rudnick &amp; Wolfe (the predecessor to the global law firm DLA Piper), where he served as the Chicago office’s Hart-Scott-Rodino filing expert and point person for antitrust compliance.

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