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Practice Areas

BANKING AND FINANCE
For more than 30 years, the firm has enjoyed a highly respected reputation for its work with banks and financial institutions. It engages in all facets of bank representation, including counseling clients in a wide variety of compliance and regulatory issues, preparation and review of documentation, term loans, revolving credit loans and secured lendings, letters of credit and Uniform Commercial Code matters, trade financing, closings on commercial mortgages and loan workouts. In addition, the firm is frequently called upon to represent businesses and individuals in a diverse range of bank-related matters, including asset-backed and unsecured commercial loans and senior and mezzanine financial creditor transactions. The firm also represents financial institutions and economic development organizations providing government assisted and sponsored financing.

CORPORATE AND SECURITIES LAW
From large corporate entities to small entrepreneurial enterprises, the firm has an excellent reputation for its transactional expertise and general practice acumen. The firm's transactional attorneys are legal and business strategists who counsel entrepreneurs and entities of all sizes, from emerging businesses to family owned and closely held enterprises to public corporations. Legal services include negotiation and documentation of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; structuring of business entities; formation of new businesses as well as licensing, outsourcing, distribution, and marketing arrangements; joint venture agreements; and virtually all types of financing arrangements, including complex project transactions.

The firm has represented issuers of both debt and equity securities in public and private offerings, and provides guidance to clients on compliance with federal and state securities laws.

Among the firm's corporate clients are a prominent university, health care providers (institutional, group and individual), national and international banks and financial institutions, and a Fortune 500 food and beverage company.

LITIGATION
The firm's litigators have a superb reputation. They are well known and respected by the courts. They mix skill with the necessary creative approaches to achieve successful results while remaining sensitive to the needs and budgets of clients. The firm's litigators counsel against unnecessary litigation and advise clients of the potential benefits of alternative dispute resolution or settlement, as appropriate. When it is in the best interests of the firm's clients, the firm does not hesitate to take cases to trial.

The firm's litigators are seasoned attorneys concentrating in the areas of professional liability defense, insurance defense, and workers compensation defense and one litigator is also a registered pharmacist. Insurance carriers, health care institutions, self-insured employers and third party administrators retain the firm to defend a diverse array of claims involving insurance, professional liability (including the defense of health care institutions, health care professionals and accountants), general and commercial liability (including food products, auto liability, and product liability) insurance defense, and workers compensation and employment law claims. Clients rely upon the firm to provide guidance regarding the formulation of initial claims strategies and effective proactive representation before the state and federal courts and Workers' Compensation Boards.

With its extensive representation of domestic and foreign financial institutions, the firm's diverse commercial litigation practice is regularly involved with lender liability actions, Uniform Commercial Code disputes, workouts, foreclosure proceedings, and various regulatory issues.

The firm's litigation practice also covers a wide variety of commercial matters including contract disputes and shareholder and partnership disputes.

The firm's litigation department has an impressive record of obtaining positive results, many of which have been reported in the press. The firm's litigators are committed to providing the highest quality representation that conforms to the expectations and budget requirements of clients. The firm's dedication to achieving successful outcomes is well known. Clients are always provided with prompt and detailed reports regarding all aspects of litigation proceedings.

EMPLOYMENT LAW AND EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION
The firm regularly provides counsel to employers, executives and health care professionals on a wide variety of employment law matters, including the negotiation and preparation of executive employment, termination and non-competition agreements and advice on issues pertaining to age discrimination, sexual harassment and wrongful termination.

The firm assists clients in developing employment manuals that conform to federal as well as New York and New Jersey state laws.

TRUSTS AND ESTATES AND ELDER CARE LAW
The firm's trusts and estates practitioners provide clients with a full range of discreet and sophisticated wealth preservation services. In addition to serving individuals, the firm represents foundations and other tax-exempt organizations.

The firms' attorneys and staff, engaged in the trust and estates field, are experienced and knowledgeable in the administration of estates, including those with complex asset allocations. The firm's proven expertise in estate and trust litigation is often called upon for contested wills and trusts as well as for contested accounting proceedings.

As an adjunct, the firm's trust and estates practitioners focus considerable attention on the ever-evolving area of elder care law, which includes Medicaid planning and guardianship proceedings.

The firm provides a full range of estate planning services to assist clients in making the most intelligent and cost-effective plans.

REAL ESTATE
The firm's sterling real estate practice focuses on such matters as real estate financing, the leasing and purchasing of commercial and residential properties, partnership offerings, and restructurings and workouts. All of the above, from time to time, requires the firm to represent clients before various administrative tribunals.

As part of its real estate practice, the firm counsels developers, landlords and commercial tenants regarding commercial leases, construction agreements, performance bonds, and subordination agreements as well as a full range of related landlord/tenant matters.

The firm's extensive experience with, and knowledge of, the banking community, is often called upon when representing real estate clients in their borrowings and workouts not only with banks, but also with a variety of financial institutions and government agencies.

HEALTH CARE LAW
Among those in the medical profession, the firm is highly regarded for its expertise in the corporate side of health care law and the successful results that it achieves on behalf of its clients. The firm has represented a wide variety of health care clients, including hospitals, nursing homes, medical groups and individual physicians, ambulatory health care facilities, and other providers and businesses engaged in the health care industry.

The firm regularly represents medical groups, and individual physicians in the negotiation and documentation of ownership and employment agreements, buy and sell agreements, equipment financing agreements, managed care arrangements and financing agreements. In addition, the firm negotiates contracts on behalf of medical groups, individual physicians, and hospitals and other institutional providers.

NOT-FOR PROFIT
The firm provides a wide array of services for numerous not-for-profit organizations, such as the formation and maintenance of not-for-profits, including counseling them on their qualifications for tax-exempt status.

On an ongoing basis, the firm also counsels its not-for-profit clients on corporate governance issues and provides advice and guidance on all aspects of solicitation and fund raising.

The firm represents not-for-profit organizations engaged in the health care and education fields as well as private foundations.

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