Wynn, Forrest J.

Carmen Joseph Marzella is Senior Counsel to The Shanahan Law Group, PLLC.   Carmen focuses his practice on providing legal counsel to small and mid-sized businesses, with particular concentration on Franchising, Commercial Transactions, Partnerships and Joint Ventures and Real Estate.  Carmen has a diverse background with significant experience in Business and Restaurant Development, Commercial Litigation, Complex Commercial Transactions, Stock and Asset Sales and Acquisitions, Complex Commercial Real Estate Transactions, Real Estate Development, Environmental, and Project Finance.

Carmen also provides counsel to Franchisees in a variety of industries on the formation, operation and expansion of their business networks, franchise related disputes, financing, and franchise sales and acquisitions.  Carmen has represented clients in numerous states around the country.

In addition to his impressive professional credentials, Carmen is a franchise owner of Dunkin’ Donuts / Baskin Robbins stores and has served on the Dunkin Brands, Inc. Brand Advisory Council as the Combo-store Representative.  He has also served on the Dunkin’ Donuts Regional Advisory Council for the Southeast Region.

Carmen earned his Juris Doctor from Seton Hall University School of Law, in Newark, NJ.  He was the President of the Computer Law Society.  Carmen also was the winner of NLRB Labor Law National Negotiation Competition for the State of New Jersey in 1990, and is a graduate of the Sidney Reitmann Labor Law Inns of Court.  Following graduation, Carmen served as a first judicial law clerk to the Hon. Eugene H. Austin, J.S.C., in the Superior Court of New Jersey, in Bergen County.

Carmen is currently licensed to practice law before the Courts of the States of North Carolina and New Jersey and is also admitted to practice before the United State District Court, for District of New Jersey and United States Court of Appeals, 3rd Circuit.