Our Team

Mr. Slipakoff’s principal areas of concentration include venture capital, corporate transactions and mergers and acquisitions. From 2004-2014, Mr. Slipakoff co-founded two thriving mid-sized law firms in Atlanta where he headed the corporate law departments:

From 1999–2004 Mr. Slipakoff served as senior corporate associate at BryanCave, LLP.  BryanCave LLP is a leading business and litigation firm with more than 1,000 attorneys in 24 worldwide offices including the United States, Europe and Asia. www.bryancave.com

From 2004–2008, Mr. Slipakoff co-founded Taylor, Busch, Slipakoff & Duma, LLP, now Taylor English, LLP, a thriving mid-sized firm in Atlanta with over 120 lawyers. www.taylorenglish.com

From 2008–2014, Mr. Slipakoff was a founding member of Busch, Slipakoff & Schuh, LLP and head of the firm’s Corporate Transactions practice group. The firm has approximately 50 attorneys and four offices. www.bssfirm.com

Mr. Slipakoff has served as General Counsel for Razor Insights, LLC from its inception in 2010 through its sale to athenahealth (NASDAQ: ATHN) on January 13, 2015.  athenahealth has a market capitalization of $5.3 billion and is a leader in billing and clinical-related software services to medical practices in the United States.

Andrea Edwards Martin is an associate in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group. She represents lenders in residential real estate litigation matters. She graduated from Auburn University in 1998 with a B.A. in Journalism and Political Science. After working as a litigation paralegal for several years, she went on to earn her law degree from Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center in 2003. Ms. Martin began her practice as an attorney in Orlando, Florida specializing in family law, small business litigation and bankruptcy law. In 2006, she went to work for the Florida Realtors ® Association as an in-house staff attorney advising Realtors ® on real estate license law, real estate contract interpretation and disputes, including foreclosures, short sales, and landlord tenant law. In 2010, Ms. Martin began practicing primarily Florida real estate foreclosure litigation. She has experience in preparing and taking cases to trial with successful results. Ms. Martin joined the firm in 2013.

Andrea was admitted to the Florida State Bar in 2004 ad the State Bar of Georgia in 2013.

Donald L. Novajosky joined Slipakoff, PC in April 2015.  Don is an experienced general counsel and corporate lawyer, with over 15+ years of experience advising corporate boards and executives of privately-held and publicly-traded companies in the software, IT, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries on a wide variety of domestic and international legal matters, with an emphasis on corporate, securities/SEC, M&A and corporate governance matters.

Don is admitted to the New York and New Jersey bars only.

Don previously served as VP, General Counsel & Secretary of Webtrends, a global provider of web analytics and optimization solutions. While at Webtrends, Don lead the company’s Legal Department and was responsible for all legal matters affecting the company, including general corporate, commercial contracts, compliance, data security & privacy, intellectual property, and litigation and dispute resolution.

Don also served, for several years, as SVP, General Counsel & Secretary of Aptean (formerly, CDC Software, NASDAQ: CDCS), a global leader in enterprise application software and related services that provides vertical industry-specific CRM, ERP, SCM, and e-commerce solutions in SaaS, cloud, and on-premise deployments; and at Aptean’s former parent company, CDC Corporation (NASDAQ: CHINA), a Hong Kong-based holding company of software, IT, online gaming, and internet portal/media businesses.

While at Aptean and CDC, Don served as compliance officer, lead the companies’ world-wide legal team, and was responsible for corporate, securities/SEC, M&A, commercial, compliance, corporate governance, risk management, and litigation matters.  In addition, while at CDC, Don oversaw the acquisition of, or investment in, over 30+ businesses located in the US, EMEA, Australia, Hong Kong, China, India and South America, to supplement and expand the companies’ business and product offerings,

Don has served as an attorney with several well-known law firms including Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr (WilmerHale), Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney, Reed Smith, and Hutchison Law Group, where his practice focused on general corporate matters, securities and SEC reporting, M&A, corporate governance, technology licensing, regulatory compliance, and corporate transactions, for technology-focused clients.

Don also served as Director, Legal for Cytogen Corporation (NASDAQ: CYTO), a publicly-traded biopharmaceutical company with an established product line in prostate cancer therapeutics and other areas of oncology.

Mark A. Baker is of counsel to the firm and a member of the bankruptcy and the real estate practice groups. Mark obtained his undergraduate degree from the University of Alabama. After receiving his law degree from Cumberland School of Law, Mark served two years as judicial law clerk to United States Bankruptcy Judge L. Chandler Watson. Before joining Slipakoff LLC,  Mark was the managing partner over the multistate Bankruptcy practice of Johnson & Freedman, LLC, a mid-sized Atlanta-based creditors’ rights firm.

Mark’s practice is focused on real estate issues in bankruptcy, foreclosure and eviction matter in the States of Tennessee and North Carolina. Over his 30 years of practice Mark has represented many of the country’s major mortgage servicers, as well as regional banks and credit unions, in the federal and state courts of Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee.

In addition to his practice at Slipakoff LLC, Mark also manages a boutique law firm, Mark A. Baker Law, LLC, which concentrates on entertainment and intellectual property law issues. You may link to his website at http://www.markabakerlaw.com/.

Seth A. Boso joined Slipakoff LLP as an associate attorney in October 2014. Mr. Boso practices primarily in the areas of corporate and transactional law, corporate formation and governance, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, and equity and debt financing.

Mr. Boso has served a range of clients, including Atlanta-based UniPro Foodservice, Inc., the largest foodservice distribution organization in the world. Mr. Boso has represented clients in merger and acquisition transactions, including Razor Insights, LLC, which sold to athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN) in January 2015. Mr. Boso has also represented clients in various venture capital, debt, and equity financing transactions, including private placements, stock purchase agreements, various debt instruments.

Mr. Boso received his J.D. from the West Virginia University College of Law. While in law school, Mr. Boso was a member of the WVU Moot Court Board and served as Chairman of the SBA Ethics Council. Before attending law school, Mr. Boso graduated from the University of Georgia with a B.A. in Political Science in 2010.

Mr. Boso is licensed to practice law in Georgia.