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.
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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.
Representative work
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.
Representative work
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.
Representative work
Fund formation, portfolio-company transactions, co-investments, and GP/LP negotiations for sponsors and family offices, from the first close through the exit.
Representative work
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.
Representative work
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.
Representative work
Managing Partner · Corporate
Admitted: New York, Delaware
U.S. Supreme Court; S.D.N.Y.
Partner · Litigation
Admitted: New York, Connecticut
2nd Cir.; S.D.N.Y.; E.D.N.Y.
Partner · Securities
Admitted: New York, California
FINRA; former SEC Enforcement
Partner · Private Equity
Admitted: New York, Massachusetts
D. Mass.; CFA charterholder
01 · Engagement
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.
02 · Team
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.
03 · Timing
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.
04 · Reach
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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48 Beaver Street, 21st Floor
New York, NY 10004
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Mon–Fri, 8:30–18:00 ET
Emergency intake, 24 hours