Family Law

• Guardianship

Criminal Law

• Fraud

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  Nathan P. Pereira is a part of the Firm’s business and commercial department. He counsels private companies with risk management, corporate governance and employment matters as well as business owners in their confidential matters. He concentrates his practice in the areas of employment law, intellectual property law including trademarks and copyrights, business mergers and acquisitions, private equity financing including private placement offerings, representation of investment advisors and broker/dealers and entity selection.  Additionally, he leverages his past experience as a director of an international art gallery in representing galleries, artists, art foundations and art brokers.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
  Jonathan is a partner in the Firm’s business and commercial department. He counsels businesses and individual entrepreneurs. He concentrates his practice in the areas of employment law, intellectual property law including trademarks and copyrights, business mergers and acquisitions, lease negotiations, commercial real estate acquisitions and financing, private equity financing including private placement offerings, representation of investment advisors and broker/dealers and formation of business entities.  Additionally, he advises clients as outside general counsel on day to day general corporate matters.
• Business Disputes
• Business Transactions
  When you need an experienced business lawyer in Greenwich, Connecticut or New York City, trust your future to the professional legal team at Gilbride, Tusa, Last & Spellane.  Serving both the greater New York City and Fairfield County, Connecticut areas, we understand the specialized needs of commercial clients, and always go the extra mile to ensure your interests are protected. Our business and commercial practice concentrates on small to medium size businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, and we also perform transactional work for larger entities and institutions. We handle both simple and complex business transactions and are familiar with the areas of law relevant to day-to-day business operations.
• Limited Liability Companies
  Our attorneys also counsel investors in a variety of private equity vehicles, including limited partnerships, limited liability companies and corporations.
• Construction Contracts
• Intellectual Property
  Our intellectual property practice has experience in all areas of intellectual property law.  We assist our clients in identifying and securing their respective intellectual property rights or defending them wherever they may conduct business.
• Unfair Competition

Employment Law

• Employment Discrimination
• Employment Contract
  Attorneys at our firm have significant experience in employment-related legal matters.  Such matters include negotiation of employment contracts and executive compensation, including equity compensation, all aspects of human resources compliance, including discipline and internal investigations, discrimination, harassment and retaliation, leave law, drafting and revising policies and procedures, recruitment, hiring, restrictive covenants, confidentiality and intellectual property, termination and layoffs, wage and hour laws, and independent contractors and consultants.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  In order to advance our clients’ interests, GTLS either assembles an extensive team or supplies a dedicated individual, as the needs of the client require, in order to best obtain a favorable outcome. We are engaged in all aspects of state and federal court litigation, locally and in other jurisdictions in conjunction with a network of other law firms with which we have developed professional relationships, so that our clients know they can bring all their litigation and arbitration issues to us to either conduct or supervise. Perhaps most importantly, our clients know that they will receive experienced and concerned assistance in making difficult decisions as to when to litigate and when to resolve the disputes through negotiation.
• Construction Litigation
  Lorraine Slavin has become a Partner of the Firm. She practices in the area of residential real estate.  Prior to joining Gilbride, Tusa, Lorraine was a Partner in the Greenwich office of Day Pitney for eighteen years.  Lorraine’s practice focuses on the real estate needs of individual clients.  She has extensive experience negotiating Purchase and Sales agreements, analyzing title issues, reviewing property surveys, negotiating construction contracts and architect agreements, and completing closings for Purchasers and Sellers. Lorraine has practiced real estate law for over 25 years and is admitted in both Connecticut and New York and maintains an “AV” peer review rating with Martindale-Hubbell©.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Brooke E. Marcogliese-Debany practices in the Private Client Services Group and has extensive experience representing lenders and high net worth individuals in connection with a wide variety of residential real estate transactions, including leasing, financing, selling, purchasing, developments and construction. In her role as Senior Counsel, she prides herself on her integrity and ability to get complex deals closed in a professional manner.
• Land Use and Zoning
  When you need the advice of experienced land use attorneys in Greenwich, CT, look no further. Gilbride, Tusa, Last & Spellane is a known leader in land use law, and we have offices in New York City, and both Naples and Palm Beach, FL, in addition to our Greenwich location. Our experience is recognized in commercial, mixed use, and residential site planning and development, as well as large tract subdivisions. We represent select international and national clients that own many of the premier commercial buildings in Greenwich and the surrounding areas. Our goal is to wholeheartedly represent these clients in the structuring of their acquisitions, financing and the leasing of these select properties. We have extensive experience in structuring property acquisitions to maintain the privacy of our clients and in arranging tax-free exchanges of investment properties. Since 2000, our commercial real estate team has represented our clients in more than one billion dollars of transactions that involved the acquisition, financing and transferring of premier properties.
• Landlord-Tenant Disputes
• Condominium Law
  His work includes the acquisition, development, construction and permanent financing of multi-family housing; the acquisition, development and financing of affordable housing utilizing conventional and mezzanine financing and tax-exempt and taxable bonds, Federal Low-Income Housing Tax Credits, negotiable inclusionary zoning benefits, negotiable real property tax certificates and other Federal, State and City subsidy programs; creation and representation of condominiums and cooperatives; syndication of interests in real estate and representing purchasers and sellers of residential and commercial real estate.

Health Law

• Medicaid Planning
  Mr. Sandler is Senior Tax Counsel for GTLS, practicing in the firm’s Individual Client’s Group.  He concentrates his practice in a variety of areas including estate planning and probate practice, tax, corporate and other matters.  Specifically, Mr. Sandler reviews and drafts estate planning documents; advises clients in connection with trust and estate administration and post-mortem tax planning; and advises clients in connection with lifetime gifting and medicaid planning.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  It is our goal to listen to our clients to determine how they would ideally prefer their assets pass at the time of their death and then to work with the client to achieve those goals in the most tax-efficient way possible.  We take the time to understand the client’s family dynamics so that we can counsel the client on both the financial aspects of estate planning and the client’s family needs.  We will then customize estate planning documents to meet the client’s needs.  We will explain all possible estate planning techniques that the client might be interested in using to maximize the amount passing to family members to preserve family wealth.  Our estate planning attorneys have decades of experience in representation of individuals, families, and closely-held businesses in connection with estate planning and how best to effectively transfer assets from one generation to the next.  Our attorneys are on the forefront of the ever-changing federal and state tax laws to continually maintain the highest standard of legal knowledge necessary to preserve wealth.
• Wills
  We have provided legal representation regarding Will contests, trust administration disputes, and litigation of contested estate administration matters.
• Trusts
  For more information on the estate and trust administration that our firm can provide, please contact Frank J. Gilbride, Thomas P. Spellane, or Dorothy M. Freeburg.
• Power of Attorney
• Probate
  Mr. Gilbride is the head of the firm’s Private Clients Group. His practice is focused primarily on wealth preservation, trust and estate planning and administration, probate law and estate and estate and gift taxation, private family foundations, the representation of high net worth clients in residential financing, sale and purchase transactions and maritime matters. Mr. Gilbride has maintained an “AV” peer review rating by Martindale-Hubbell ® for over 35 years.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  In addition, GTLS represents individuals in the purchase and sale of cooperative or condominium units. When necessary, our firm also represents the interests of our cooperative and condominium boards in court.
• Tax Law
  A Greenwich native, Ms. Crabtree Fox is a recent graduate of Quinnipiac University School of Law, magna cum laude, with a concentration in Taxation.  She received her undergraduate degree from American University in Washington, D.C., with a double major in Political Science and Journalism.  During her time at Quinnipiac, Ms. Crabtree Fox served as a Note Editor on The Quinnipiac Law Review, was a member of the Phi Delta Phi Legal Honors Society, a member of the Quinnipiac Tax Law Society and served on the Student Bar Association. She was also the recipient of the Excellence in Clinical Legal Education award by the Faculty Awards Committee.