Robert A. Agresta

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Born
Robert Anthony Agresta

(1983-03-31) March 31, 1983 (age 41)
Nationality American and Italian
Spouse
Natalie Agresta
​
(m. 2019)​
[1]
Alma mater Fordham University (BS)
New York Law School (JD)
Universität St. Gallen (EMBL-HSG)
Profession Investor and Attorney
Website RobertAgresta.com

Robert Anthony Agresta (born March 31, 1983) is a corporate lawyer and investor. He is the principal of Agresta Acquisitions, a private investment company [2] and The Agresta Firm, a New York metropolitan area-based law firm. [3] He was also the city council president in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey from 2009 through 2012. Agresta is the son of the late Joseph A. Agresta, Sr. and Darel Christensen Agresta. [4] [5]

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Biography

Agresta was born on March 31, 1983, to Joseph A. Agresta, Sr. and Darel Christensen Agresta [5] and is a dual-citizen of Italy and the United States. [6]

Agresta is a descendant5 of Robert Shipley and Sarah Shipley, great grandparents of President Abraham Lincoln and parents of Mary Shipley, the first wife of Captain Abraham Lincoln. [7] [8] Agresta is also a Son of the American Revolution and the lineal descendant of Lieutenant Thomas Collins, III who was a Lieutenant in the French and Indian War and fought in the Battle of Bennington during the American Revolutionary War. [7] [9]

After graduating from Fordham University in 2005, Agresta attended New York Law School in New York City and graduated on June 1, 2009, with a Juris Doctor degree. Agresta also attended and graduated from the Universität St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland, in 2015 with a master's degree in business administration and continued to lecture as a member of the HSG faculty on strategy in law and business. [10]

In 2011, Agresta was nominated as a Young Leader in the American Swiss Foundation by former US Ambassador to Switzerland Faith Whittlesey and Christopher Ruddy. He participates in diplomatic efforts to improve relations between the United States and Switzerland. [11] [12]

Professional career

In 2009, Agresta formed The Agresta Firm, PC, [3] serving as counsel to businesses, executives and boards of directors in the banking and healthcare industries. [13] Agresta is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, the State of Wyoming, the State of New York and the State of New Jersey. In 2017, Agresta published "International Tax Planning as a Business Driver", 5 Penn. St. J.L. & Int'l Aff. 538 (2017) in the Penn State Journal of Law and International affairs. [13] [14]

Political career

Agresta was elected on November 4, 2008, to serve a three-year term as a Republican councilman in the Borough of Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, defeating democratic incumbent Patricia Drimones, 1256 to 1059. [15] On January 6, 2010, Agresta was voted president of the borough council. [16]

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References

  1. ↑ The New York Times: Natalie Cappello, Robert Agresta. Accessed April 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ Agresta Acquisitions, LLC Archived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine , New York, New York. Accessed December 23, 2008.
  3. 1 2 The Agresta Firm PC, Englewood, New Jersey. Accessed March 27, 2011.
  4. ↑ Driven to Succeed by Ian Spelling, 201 Magazine, Bergen County, New Jersey. Retrieved December 23, 2008.
  5. 1 2 Natalie Cappello, Robert Agresta, The New York Times, New York, New York. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  6. ↑ The American Swiss Foundation, New York, New York. Accessed October 20, 2020.
  7. 1 2 Agresta Family Tree, Ancestry, New York, New York. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  8. ↑ Boone Family Archive, New York, New York. Retrieved October 20, 2020.
  9. ↑ Vermont Men in the Revolutionary War. pp.  https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/7466/images/Revol-War-VT-0344?usePUB=true&_phsrc=AYV620&usePUBJs=true&pId=344.
  10. ↑ LinkedIn:Robert Agresta. Accessed January 26, 2016.
  11. ↑ The American Swiss Foundation Young Leaders Conference, Montreux, Switzerland. Accessed May 23, 2012.
  12. ↑ The American Swiss Foundation Young Leaders Conference, Montreux, Switzerland. Accessed May 23, 2012.
  13. 1 2 Robert Agresta, Esq., New York, New York. Accessed January 7, 2018.
  14. ↑ Agresta, Robert (June 2017). "International Tax Planning as a Business Driver". Penn State Journal of Law and International Affairs. 5 (2): 538.
  15. ↑ Borough Booming Despite Economy by Tara Driggs, Northern Valley Suburbanite, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Accessed January 7, 2009.
  16. ↑ Seeing red: Voters pick GOP candidates, Bergen Record, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. Accessed January 1, 2009.
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