Corporate & Litigation · Est. 1998 · New York
A boutique firm of eleven lawyers, retained by boards, founders, and funds when the transaction is complex or the dispute cannot be lost. We take few matters, and we do not delegate them downward.
We are deliberately small. A partner opens your file, argues it, and closes it — the same name on the engagement letter is the name in the courtroom and across the table.
Buy-side and sell-side M&A, venture and growth financings, joint ventures, and recapitalizations. We draft the deal, run diligence, and hold the closing — and we tell a board plainly when a deal should not be done.
Trial-tested advocacy in contract, shareholder, fiduciary, and partnership disputes. We prepare every matter as though it will be tried — which is precisely why most of them settle on our terms.
Public-company reporting, disclosure controls, board and committee governance, and the defense of SEC and self-regulatory inquiries — counsel that keeps a company out of trouble, and steady when it arrives.
Fund formation, portfolio-company transactions, co-investments, and GP/LP negotiations for sponsors and family offices — from the first close through the exit.
Executive transitions, restrictive covenants, and the litigation of trade-secret misappropriation — for the company protecting its people and its confidential work, and for the executive leaving cleanly.
State and federal appeals, dispositive-motion strategy, and amicus work — brought in by trial counsel and by our own litigators to preserve a win or reverse a loss.
Transactional work is quoted as a fixed fee or a capped estimate agreed before we begin. Litigation is hourly, with a monthly ledger you can read line by line, and in select matters a blended or partial-contingency arrangement. There are no phantom charges and no first-year associate you have never met on the invoice.
A named partner, from intake to resolution. We staff leanly on purpose — the lawyer who understands your matter is the one who argues it. When depth is needed we add our own counsel, never an outside contract roster.
For emergencies — a filed complaint, a threatened injunction, a signing on a deadline — we clear a conflicts check and open a file within twenty-four hours. For planned transactions, an initial consultation is usually available within the week.
Our transactional practice is national and frequently cross-border. In litigation we appear where our partners are admitted and associate with trusted local counsel elsewhere, leading the strategy while a vetted firm handles the courtroom logistics.
Consultations are by appointment and held in confidence. Tell us the matter in a sentence; a partner — not an intake clerk — will respond and, where we can help, propose next steps.
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