Matrimonial
Litigation
Lending, Foreclosure & Loan Enforcement
White Collar Criminal Defense
Business Reorganization & Creditor’s Rights
Nonprofit, Religious & Charitable Organizations
Corporate, Business & Real Estate
Our Matrimonial and Family practice represents prominent and high net worth clients in all aspects of their marital and family law needs. We take pride in our demonstrated ability to successfully manage the myriad of complex circumstances raised in our clients’ matters, including:
Our firm has an outstanding reputation and successful track record in litigated matrimonial cases, at trial and on appeal. Mr. Mantel, who heads our Matrimonial Practice, was elected President of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, New York Chapter, and is recognized by New York’s Bar as a preeminent leader in this complex and specialized field.
Due to our firm’s reputation and our financial and analytical skills, we have been successful in reaching favorable settlements for the vast majority of our matrimonial clients. Quite often, as a result of our successful representation of a matrimonial client, we are asked to remain as a trusted counselor and advisor in our clients’ business, financial, and personal affairs. Earning our clients’ respect and trust is the greatest testament to our Matrimonial Practice.
We represent clients in all forums, including State and Federal trial and appellate courts, arbitration panels, and administrative agencies.
Our Lending, Foreclosure and Loan Enforcement practice includes the representation of middle-market lenders in a variety of financing transactions, including working capital lines of credit, term-loans, asset-based loans and real estate loans. We also represent borrowers in loan transactions.
Our representation of lenders also extends to serving as counsel in connection with the purchase or sale of debt, restructuring, work-out transactions, and the enforcement of the rights of lenders, including commercial mortgage foreclosure proceedings and bankruptcy lift-stay proceedings.
We were able to set aside criminal sales tax convictions and won an acquittal for our client charged with commercial bribery, scheming to defraud, and anti-trust crimes.
We provide a wide-variety of legal services to religious organizations, charities, and not-for-profit entities. In addition to formation and organization, we counsel such entities with regard to corporate governance, tax compliance, tax audits, internal investigations, and legal reporting requirements.
Our litigation expertise includes proceedings seeking the judicial approval or confirmation of mortgages on properties owned by religious organizations. For instance, we recently won an appeal reinstating a temple’s complaint to void certain mortgages as illegally recorded by the bank in violation of the Religious Corporations Law and staying the bank’s related foreclosure proceeding.
We were also successful in defending a church against claims by a bankruptcy trustee seeking to void certain charitable contributions made by the debtor. The case involved insolvency issues and novel issues under the Religious Liberty and Charitable Donation Protection Act of 1998.
Our Corporate, Business and Real Estate practice handles the structuring, formation, financing, sale, merger, restructuring, dissolution and other commercial requirements of medium and small businesses and not-for-profit entities.
We provide counsel to our corporate clients on a full spectrum of business-related matters, such as: