Individual Clients

We provide advice and counsel to individuals and families on private and confidential matters as follows:

Purchase and sale of residential and commercial real estate.

Employment contracts and severance agreements.

Family Law, including: pre-nuptial agreements; separation agreements; divorce; and custody.

Recent Engagements:

· Worked with “black box” trader on financing agreements offered by hedge funds.

· Represented an individual buying a vintage race car from a seller in U.K.

· Organized a consulting company for investment banking analyst.

· Prepared wills, advance directives, health care proxies and ancillary documents for many individuals and families.

· Represented a senior employee in a discrimination and lost wage case against a public authority

· Represented a leaseholder in a multi-million dollar litigation involving conversion of apartment into European style hostel.

· Achieved a divorce in a case that had been deadlocked for more than two years.

· Advised software developers on elimination of non-competition agreements.

Estate Planning

We provide advise and counsel to the Modern Family including:

Review of existing estate plans;

Drafting of Last Will and Testaments, Health Care Proxies, and Living Wills;

Advise on Durable Powers of Attorney;

Documenting Interfamily loans and gifting regimes; and

Succession planning for family owned businesses.

Corporate Clients

We provide services to established and "start-up" clients as follows:

Formation of corporations, partnerships, limited liability partnerships, limited liability companies, professional corporations, and not-for-profit organizations

Corporate maintenance and governance, including advice to boards on their responsibilities, obligations and liabilities

Employment agreements and terminations

Stockholder agreements

Voting trusts and proxies

Joint ventures and strategic alliances

Contracts including: licensing agreements, sponsorship agreements, distribution agreements, and sales agency agreements

Recent Engagements:

Acted as counsel to international E-Commerce company.

Advised on formation of a company to enter import/export market between US and China for agricultural commodities

Represented a company establishing an art gallery in Brooklyn and its expansion thereafter.

Acted as corporate counsel to a series of Venture Capital Funds.

Represented Special Purpose Investment Vehicle as major creditor in bankruptcy proceeding involving multiple Dunkin Donut Franchises.

Litigation

We advocate for individuals and legal entities in the following areas:

Corporate and commercial litigation in Federal and State Courts

Arbitration before FINRA and the American Arbitration Association

Alternative dispute resolution, including binding and non-binding arbitration and mediation

Surrogates Court litigation

Recent Engagements:

Defeated huge claims by the IRS against individuals for failure to pay taxes for many years

Represented an individual in a settlement with an insurance company over personal injury in a car accident

Represented individual in suit by former employer over multi-million dollar forgivable loan

Represented clients in claims against the TSA in Federal Court for lost valuables

Represented a client in a four million dollar FINRA arbitration with a regional brokerage firm involving the marketing of tenants-in-common interests

Represented departing partner from wood flooring company for a buy-out of his membership interests

Represented business owners against action on promissory notes guaranteed with incorrect signatures

Represented investors in a FINRA arbitration against investment advisor for failure to honor stop loss instructions

Represented a client in two lawsuits related to ownership of client accounts in the pest control business, successfully obtaining a buy-out

Successfully defended an action seeking rescission of investment in a Bronx eyeglass store

Art Law

We advise buyers, sellers, dealers, and galleries on buying, selling, and collecting fine art, memorabilia, and collectables as follows:

Purchase and sale transactions

Auction and dealer consignments

Loans to domestic and foreign museums and galleries

Charitable gifts of art

Sales, use and personal property tax planning

Tax deferred exchanges of art

Art advisor and consultant agreements

Art appraisal agreements

Copyright, trademark and other intellectual property rights

Negotiation of policy terms and coverage for art insurance

Private and public commission of art

Recent Engagements:

Representing Sellers

Suite of important pre-war oil paintings by Pablo Picasso

Standing Woman sculpture by Alberto Giacometti

Oil painting by Claude Monet

Oil painting by Pierre August Renoir

Rare limestone sculpture by Marc Chagall

Major cubist oil painting by Pablo Picasso

The estate of gallery owner for sale of entire inventory collection

An important and rare painting by Peter Paul Rubens & Jan Brueghel

Representing Buyers

Rare Tahitian period oil painting by Paul Gauguin

Important Oil Painting by Mark Rothko

Suite of of three oil paintings by Marc Chagall

Ballerina pastel by Edgar Degas

Rare and important oil Painting by Jean Michel-Basquiat

Start-up Packages

FORMATION PACKAGES

Call for Fixed Fee Quote:

What is included:

Registered Address and Agent

Ongoing Secretarial Maintenance

Drafting of Certificate of Incorporation, Memorandum and/or Articles of Association