Jenessa J. Hoffman

Jenessa Hoffman is Vice President of ESGI- Potomac (formally Potomac Recruiting), growth[period]’s premier contingency recruiting firm specializing in managerial level searches for companies in the national security/homeland security marketplaces.

Prior to working for ESGI – Potomac, Jenessa Hoffman was a senior associate with Anderson Kill & Olick, where she specialized in the areas of Bankruptcy & Restructuring, Corporate & Securities, and Real Estate and Construction. She has advised small and medium-sized businesses on daily business concerns, buyers and sellers in the acquisition and sale of businesses, lenders and borrowers in commercial financing transactions, and creditors’ and bondholders’ committees in bankruptcy actions. She acted as de facto in-house counsel for numerous clients, responsible for providing advice on general corporate matters, including legal issues and risks related to various corporate actions and compliance with the terms of clients’ governing documents, negotiating with current and former employees regarding issues such as employment terms and conditions and post-employment benefits, and devising strategies and draft documents with respect to responses to contract violations of customers, suppliers, and franchisees.

Jenessa attended The University of Pennsylvania, where she received a BA in History. She then went on to receive her Juris Doctor at the Fordham University of Law, where she was a Stein Scholar in Public Interest Law and Ethics, as well as a member of Fordham Moot

Court Board and the Associate Editor of the Fordham International Law Journal. While at Fordham she completed a year-long externship at Fordham’s Civil & Employment Rights Clinic, where she co-authored the New York City Bar Association’s comments on New York State’s proposed AIDS/HIV regulations