**Exhibit10.1**

**CandelaCorporation**

**Amendedand Restated Employment Agreement dated as of April 5, 2007, between CandelaCorporationand Gerard E. Puorro**

AGREEMENTmade as of the 5th day ofApril, 2007, by and between Candela Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”),and Gerard E. Puorro (“Puorro” or the “Employee”).

WHEREAS,the Company desires to employ Puorro and Puorro desires to be employed by theCompany on the terms and conditions contained herein;

WHEREAS,the Company and the Employee originally executed prior versions of thisAgreement on August 4, 1994 and March 10, 1999, which agreement is presently infull force and effect, and the parties wish and hereby intend to rescind theAugust 4, 1994 Agreement and the March 10, 1999 Agreement and replace themwith the terms and provisions of this Agreement;

NOW,THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual covenants and obligations hereincontained, it is mutually agreed between the parties hereto as follows:

# 1.  Employment and Term.  The Company hereby agrees to continue toemploy the Employee and the Employee hereby agrees to serve as President andChief Executive Officer of the Company. Both the Employee and the Company shall have the right to terminate theEmployee’s employment at any time upon notice to the other party as provided inParagraph 3 hereof subject to the Company’s obligation to pay terminationbenefits under certain circumstances as provided in Paragraphs 3.E and 3.F.

# 2.  Compensation.

## A.            Salary.  In consideration of all of the services to berendered by the Employee to the Company, the Company will pay the Employee abase salary at the rate per annum approved by the Compensation Committee or thefull Board of Directors from time to time. Such salary shall be payable in conformity with the Company’s prevailingcompensation practices, as such practices shall be established or modified fromtime to time.

## B.            Benefits.  The Employee will be entitled to continue toparticipate on the same basis with all other employees of the Company in theCompany’s standard benefit package generally available to all other employeesof the Company, including the Company’s group health, disability, vacationaccrual and life insurance programs except that the Employee shall have theright to participate in two or more life insurance programs, including theOfficer Life Insurance program referenced in Section 2(D) and one otherexisting policy issued by Axa Equitable.

## C.            CompanyCar.  The Employee will be entitled tothe use of a company car, leased by the Company, in a price range approved bythe Compensation Committee from time to time.

## D.            LifeInsurance.  The Employee will be entitledto continue to participate in the Company’s Officer (Reverse Split Dollar) LifeInsurance Program (“Officer Life Program”) with a death benefit of $1,000,000,provided that the Employee shall be responsible for the payment of any premiumsthereon which practice was formerly put in place.

# 3.  Termination and Severance.  TheEmployee’s employment may be terminated as follows:

## A.            At the Employee’s Option. Subject to the Company’s right to terminate the Employee pursuant toParagraphs 3.B, 3.C and 3.D below, the Employee may terminate his employmenthereunder for any reason at any time upon at least sixty (60) days’ priorwritten notice.  In the event theEmployee terminates his employment pursuant to this Paragraph 3.A, either theEmployee or the Company can elect, prior to the expiration of the sixty (60)day notice period provided above, that the Employee receive severance paymentspursuant to Paragraph 3.E hereof, which election by either party will alsocause the provisions of Paragraph 4 hereof to become operable.  If no such election is made, the Employeeshall not be entitled to any severance payments pursuant to Paragraph 3.E hereof.

## B.            UponDisability of Employee.  If the Employeebecomes disabled for such period of time and under circumstances which entitlehim to receive disability benefits under the terms of any disability policy nowmaintained or to be 

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purchased for the Employee by the Company, then theBoard of Directors of the Company, in its discretion, may elect to terminatethe Employee’s employment by reason of such disability.  In the event of such termination the Employeeshall be entitled to severance payments pursuant to Paragraph 3.E hereof, lessthe “before income tax” value of disability benefits received under saiddisability policy.

## C.            Atthe Election of the Company for Just Cause. Notwithstanding Paragraph 3.A, the Company may, immediately andunilaterally, terminate the Employee’s employment for just cause at any timeduring the term of this Agreement by notice to the Employee.  Termination of the Employee’s employment bythe Company shall constitute a termination for just cause if such terminationis for one or more of the following reasons: (i) Employee’s conviction in a court of law of any felony, whichconviction makes him unfit for continuing employment, prevents him fromeffective management of the Company or materially adversely affects thereputation or business activities of the Company; (ii) the commission by theEmployee of any act of fraud or embezzlement, or the misappropriation by theEmployee of any money or other assets or property (tangible or intangible) ofthe Company; or (iii) dishonesty or willful misconduct which adversely affectsthe reputation or business activities of the Company, or misappropriation offunds.  In the event that the Companyexercises its right to terminate the Employee’s employment under this Paragraph3.C, the Employee shall not be entitled to receive any severance or othertermination benefits, but the Employee shall be subject to the provisions ofSection 4 as if he were receiving severance under Paragraph 3.D below.

## D.            Atthe Election of the Company for Reasons Other than Just Cause.  Notwithstanding Paragraph 3.A, the Companymay, immediately and unilaterally, terminate the Employee’s employment at anytime without cause by giving written notice to the Employee of the Company’selection so to terminate.  In the eventthat the Company exercises its right to terminate under this Paragraph 3.D, theEmployee shall be entitled to receive severance payments and benefits from theCompany as determined in accordance with Paragraphs 3.E and 3.F, respectively,below.

## E.             SeverancePayments.  In the event that the Employee’semployment with the Company is terminated either (i) at the Employee’s optionand either the Employee or the Company elects for the Employee to receiveseverance payments pursuant to paragraph 3.A, or (ii) at the Company’s optionpursuant to paragraph 3.D, the Employee shall be entitled to receive severancepayments from the Company during the period beginning on the date oftermination and ending two (2) years from the date of termination (the “SeverancePeriod”).  During the first year of theSeverance Period, severance payments shall be equal to the Employee’s monthlysalary as of the date of termination. During the second year of the Severance Period, severance payments shallbe equal to fifty percent (50%) of the Employee’s monthly salary as of the dateof termination; *provided, however*, that if the Board of Directors of theCompany has voted to elect an individual to serve as President and ChiefExecutive Officer of the Company immediately succeeding the Employee’sperformance of duties as President and CEO, and such designation of successoris made prior to the Employee’s date of termination and cessation of service asCEO, then in such event, during the second year of the Severance Period,severance payments shall be equal to the employee’s monthly salary as of thedate of termination. All severance payments shall be made in accordance withthe Company’s then current payroll practices and will be subject to allapplicable federal, local and state withholding, payroll and other taxes.

## F.             BenefitsContinuation.  The Employee’s eligibilityfor participation in the Company’s health plan or plans terminates as of theTermination Date and the parties agree that the Termination Date shall constitutethe “qualifying event” under the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Actof 1985 (“COBRA”).  However, the Employeemay elect in accordance with COBRA to continue coverage under the Company’shealth plans which are available to active employees of the Company.  If the Employee’s employment is terminated atthe Company’s election pursuant to Paragraph 3.D, then in the event Employeeelects continuation of coverage under COBRA, the Company shall, during theSeverance Period, pay 100% of the premium payments for health insurancecoverage, and after the expiration of the Severance Period health insurancecoverage shall be continued only to the extent required by COBRA and only tothe extent that Employee timely pays the premium payments for such continuationof health insurance coverage.

## G.            Suspensionof Payments and Benefits.  The Companymay, in its discretion, suspend any or all of the foregoing severance paymentsand benefits in the event Employee materially breaches the provisions of thisAgreement or the provisions of the Invention Disclosure and ConfidentialityAgreement described in Section 5 hereof.

# 4.  Non-Competition andNon-Solicitation.

## A.            Non-Competition.  During the term of Employee’s employment withthe Company and until the expiration of the Severance Period, if any, (the “Non-CompetePeriod”), the Employee will not, without the Company’s prior written consent, 

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alone or as a partner, joint venturer, officer,director, employee, consultant, agent, independent contractor or stockholder ofany company or business, engage in any business activity which is or plans tobe in competition in the United States with any of the products or servicesmarketed, distributed, sold or otherwise provided by the Company at such time.  The ownership by the Employee of not morethan one percent of the shares of stock of any corporation having a class ofequity securities actively traded on a national securities exchange or onNASDAQ shall not be deemed, in and of itself, to violate the prohibitions ofthis paragraph.

## B.            Non-Solicitation.During the Non-Compete Period, the Employee will not, directly or indirectly,employ any person who is employed by the Company at any time during the termhereof, or in any manner seek to induce any such person to leave his or heremployment with the Company.  Inaddition, the Employee will not knowingly permit any company or businessorganization in which the Employee is an officer of director or which is directlyor indirectly controlled by the Employee, to employ or in any manner seek toinduce any such person to leave his or her employment with the Company.

## C.            IrreparableHarm.  The Employee agrees that thebreach of this provision by the Employee will cause irreparable damage to theCompany and that in the event of such breach the Company shall have, inaddition to any and all remedies of law, the right to an injunction, specificperformance or other equitable relief to prevent the violation of the Employee’sobligations hereunder.

## D.            Survival.  The Employee hereby agrees and understandsthat the Employee’s obligations under this Agreement shall survive thetermination of the Employee’s employment regardless of the manner of suchtermination and shall be binding upon the Employee’s heirs, executors,administrators and legal representatives.

# 5.  Invention Disclosure andConfidentiality Agreement. The Employee acknowledges that he entered into theInvention Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreement in the form attached heretoas Appendix A effective as of April 10, 1989, and that such Agreement isbinding upon him and remains in full force and effect.

# 6.  General Provisions.  This Agreement shall be governed by andconstrued in accordance with the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.This Agreement and the Invention Disclosure and Confidentiality Agreementconstitute the entire agreement between the parties concerning the subjectmatter hereof and supersede any prior negotiations, understandings oragreements concerning the subject matter hereof and thereof, whether oral orwritten, including the Agreements between the Employee and the Company datedApril 10, 1989, August 4, 1994, the letter agreement between the Employee andthe Company dated September 12, 1996, and March 10, 1999.  This Agreement may be modified, and therights and remedies of any provision hereof may be waived, only in writing,signed by both the Company and the Employee. The invalidity or unenforceabilityof any provision of this Agreement shall not affect the other provisions of thisAgreement but this Agreement shall be construed and reformed to the fullestextent possible.  If one or more of theprovisions contained in this Agreement shall for any reason be held to beexcessively broad as to scope, activity, subject or otherwise so as to beunenforceable at law, such provision shall be construed by the appropriatejudicial body by limiting or reducing it or them, so as to be enforceable tothe maximum extent compatible with applicable law as it shall then appear.  The language of all parts of this Agreementshall in all cases be construed as a whole according to its fair meaning andnot strictly for or against either of the parties.  Nothing in this Agreement shall be construedas a contract of employment for a specific term or create any obligation on thepart of the Company or any other person or entity to continue Employee’semployment with the Company. Employee may not assign any of his rights andobligations under this Agreement except by will or by the laws of descent anddistribution; the rights and obligations of the Company under this Agreementshall inure to the benefit of, and shall be binding upon, the successors andassigns of the Company.  This Agreementmay be executed in any number of counterparts, all of which taken togethershall constitute one and the same instrument.

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