Ms. Abruzzo serves as outside general counsel to hundreds of this nation’s largest contractors, manufacturers and home improvement lenders.  While Ms. Abruzzo’s practice touches on several aspects of law impacting the home improvement and remodeling industry, her record of achievement in counseling business owners with respect to consumer and administrative agency concerns, employment issues, litigation, real estate, and other critical operational concerns is unparalleled.  

Ms. Abruzzo’s extensive experience in complex corporate and real estate transactions has proven instrumental in her role as sellers counsel in some of the largest merger and acquisition transactions the home improvement industry has ever seen.  Ms. Abruzzo has proven herself to be a dedicated and trusted advisor to selling entities and owners while navigating intense due diligence, negotiation, financing concerns, and execution of complex transaction documentation.   Ms. Abruzzo’s transparent communication style assists her to excel in providing Berenson LLP clients with superior interpretation, analysis and problem solving, risk limitation, and business strategies for success.  

Ms. Abruzzo obtained her B.S. in Psychology, cum laude, from the State University of New York at Stonybrook and her J.D, summa cum laude, from New York Law School. During law school Ms. Abruzzo was an Editor for the NYLS Law Review, an editor and member of the NYLS Moot Court Association, and even managed to find time to clerk for an Honorable United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York.    Ms. Abruzzo is admitted to practice law in the State of Florida and the State of New York.