Hidden Liabilities: 5 Legal Risks That Can Hurt Your Valuation

Alignment is key to effective representation. Harry Abraham serves as outside general counsel to companies at all stages of their lifecycle, partnering with founders, operators, and investors to drive growth, manage risk, and execute strategic transactions. Leveraging his experience as both in-house and outside counsel, Harry delivers practical, creative solutions to complex legal and business challenges that align with his clients’ business objectives.

Harry brings more than 13 years of experience advising businesses from formation through exit, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions and complex commercial transactions. He regularly leads buy-side and sell-side transactions, drafts and negotiates definitive agreements, structures deals, and coordinates cross-functional stakeholders to close efficiently. As Outside General Counsel, Harry also oversees corporate governance, commercial contracting, intellectual property strategy, and day-to-day legal operations, including advising on real estate and asset protection strategies.

Harry has represented clients ranging from startups to multi-billion-dollar enterprises and institutional clients across the technology, entertainment, sports, real estate, insurance, beverage, toy, manufacturing, escrow, manufacturing, and medical sectors, advising owners, executives, founders, athletes, musicians, producers, and creatives in high-value strategic and transactional matters. He also brings extensive insurance experience, advising on coverage, risk allocation, and claims-related matters, further enhancing his ability to structure transactions and mitigate downside exposure.

In addition to his transactional practice, Harry’s litigation experience enables him to advise clients on pre-dispute strategy, risk mitigation, and enforcement, including matters involving intellectual property, commercial disputes, and employment issues. This dual perspective allows him to proactively identify and address risks that impact valuation, deal certainty, and execution, particularly where parties face stalled negotiations or complex, high-friction disputes.

Harry is a first-generation American of Latin American descent and is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.

Harry received a Juris Doctor from the University of San Diego, with a corporate concentration, and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management Economics from the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is admitted to practice in California.

Outside the office, Harry enjoys footvolley (ask him), surfing, and traveling with his wife, baby boy, and dog. He is a former professional soccer player and lifelong fan of the beautiful game. He has attended 8 World Cups and counting.

Luiza Manuelian is a Labor & Employment Lawyer based in Los Angeles, serving business owners throughout California. Luiza represents employers in various employment-related matters including class and representative actions for wage & hour disputes/misclassification and claims brought under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). She also represents employers in claims for civil rights violations, harassment, discrimination, retaliation, whistleblower claims, wrongful termination, defamation, breach of employment contract and unfair business practices. Luiza also represents employers before government agencies including California DLSE, EDD, and EEOC.

Luiza provides clients with general labor advice and counsels clients to ensure compliance with State, Federal and local ordinances to avoid litigation, including conducting wage/hour audits, preparing policies/handbook for compliance, employment agreements and policies catered to each client’s industry-specific needs. She trains employers on Sexual Harassment, Wage & Hour Compliance, Violence Prevention in the Workplace, Management/Human Resource personnel on employment discipline/leaves. She does presentations through various State Bar affiliations, including the Los Angeles County Bar Association, San Fernando Valley Bar Association, Armenian Women’s Bar Association, amongst others.

Prior to joining Grant Shenon Almaraz, where she is now a Partner leading the Labor & Employment Law Practice for the firm, Luiza worked at an exclusively employment defense firm, representing employers throughout California. Prior to her experience in employment litigation, she served as a Supervising Partner and Chair of the Toxic Tort Division at a Los Angeles law firm. She has extensive trial experience in product liability toxic tort and civil rights violation cases and has tried matters throughout California, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Oakland. Luiza graduated from Southwestern University School of Law, where she participated in the Moot Court Program and was a finalist at the National American Bar Association competition in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Luiza received her J.D. from Southwestern Law School in 2004, where she served as a judicial extern for the Court of Appeals, Limited Jurisdiction, of the Central District of California. Prior to entering law school, Luiza worked at law firms since she was 15 years old. She received her B.A. from the California State University, Northridge in Psychology in 2000, where she was published for her research on gender studies.