Businesses and financiers need corporate or securities lawyer who knows how to close a deal or draft a contract. They also need an advisor, a businessperson like themselves, to develop a long-term relationship with and help solve those problems that are difficult to discuss objectively with friends or colleagues. Sometimes they need a litigator.
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Big Firm Experience
Our partners attorneys have broken free from the "golden handcuffs" of the big law firms. We prefer the independence and greater professional satisfaction possible in a smaller boutique firm dealing with small, middle market and emerging growth companies, both public and private. Our clients benefit through direct and consistent access to a more senior and sophisticated attorney than is typical at a larger firm.
We represent growing businesses, lenders, venture capital firms, investment bankers and investors in corporate and securities matters. We also represent both public and privately held operating companies, mostly in the small to middle market range. Our attorneys are also expert in state securities and broker-dealer regulation, as well as the reporting requirements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
We are one of the leading firms nationally that represents wealthy and institutional investors in private equity transactions of all types. These include equity lines of credit, “PIPE” transactions and more traditional venture financings in public and private companies.
We also have developed a national reputation as experts in "reverse mergers." In these transactions, private businesses merge with inactive public entities, allowing the private business to be publicly traded without an expensive, risky and dilutive public offering.
In corporate representation, we are involved in transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, angel and venture capital financings, lending transactions, and similar matters. Our general corporate practice includes such diverse matters as resolving commercial disputes, stock option and other employee benefit plans, employment agreements, office and warehouse leasing and buy/sell, partnership and LLC operating agreements.
We represent parties in litigations and arbitrations in both state and federal court in the State of New York. Generally, matters involve either commercial disputes arising from delivery of goods, breach of contract or related tortious actions, or matters relating to ownership of or infringement on intellectual property rights.
We represent individuals and companies in all matters related to ownership, protection and transfer of intellectual property rights, including trademark, copyright and trade secret issues. We prosecute trademark and copyright applications at the federal and state levels. We also litigate disputes surrounding these matters. In particular, suits surrounding alleged infringement of trademark rights has become a sub-specialty of the firm.
We represent individuals and businesses in tax planning, estate planning and administration. Firm attorneys have extensive experience in advising domestic and international individuals and corporations on tax and estate planning issues in connection with business formation, financings, joint venture agreements, mergers and acquisitions, asset purchases and sales, executive compensation, transfer of family businesses, tax favored investments, pension distribution planning, wealth preservation and estate planning. We have represented clients in tax controversies with the IRS and state tax authorities. We have also represented clients with matters on examination (audit), at IRS Appeals, at the Tax Court and at the U.S. Competent Authority (a special proceeding under an international tax treaty). We also specialize in individual and corporate tax planning, estate planning and administration.
We represent U.S. and international businesses of all types and sizes in customs and international trade and commercial law matters. Representations include financing and licensing agreements, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution arrangements and service contracts. We are also expert in import and zoning laws and regulations, including tariff, classification, valuation, antidumping and countervailing duty, import quotas and other restrictions, foreign trade zones, drawback, bonded warehouses and matters involving the U.S. Customs Service and other agencies with jurisdiction over foreign trade litigation before the U.S. Court of International Trade. We also deal with matters arising under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the World Trade Organization, the North American Free Trade Agreement and other international agreements.
We represent start-up and existing franchisors in all phases of the franchising process, from formation of the franchise entity to creation of the legal documentation to maintaining an on-going support relationship with the company in both a legal and advisory capacity. We are expert in preparing, filing and obtaining state and federal approval of franchise offering materials. Our practice in this area is local, national and international in scope.
We represent businesses and individuals in a wide range of real estate matters, including: Transactional: purchase, sale and financing of commercial properties (office buildings, shopping centers, etc.), residential properties (multi-family, townhouses, condo/co-op packages) and industrial properties (manufacturing facilities, warehouses, etc.); Leasing: commercial leasing for office, retail and industrial buildings; Mortgage Lending: secured lending for financing of commercial, industrial and residential buildings and underlying co-op mortgages; Joint Ventures: partnership, LLC and corporate structuring and formation (including LLC Operating Agreements, Shareholder Agreements, Partnership Agreements) and LLC conversions; Cooperative and Condominium Law: representation of co-op corps; cooperative and condominium conversion and unsold shares transactions; Residential; representation of individuals in the purchase, sale and financing of homes, cooperatives and condominiums. In addition, firm attorneys are experienced in real estate syndication, income tax structuring, as well as real estate litigation.
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