Family Law

• Adoption

Criminal Law

• Fraud
  Represents both plaintiffs and defendants in litigation and commercial disputes involving equity owners in various types of business entities, securities fraud, minority shareholder oppression and employment related matters. The Firm’s practice involves litigating in courts throughout the United States and its clients include institutional and individual investors, mid-size and early stage companies and both majority and minority company equity holders.
• Theft

Business and Corporate Law

• Corporate Law
  The general rule in the corporate governance of business entities -- including corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships -- is that absent an agreement or statutory requirement to the contrary, majority rule governs. Indeed, majority equity owners often assume that they can do pretty much anything they want with regard to the business entity.
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Business Disputes
  Our firm provides a full range of services, providing the highest quality counseling and legal representation in transactions and business disputes
• Business Transactions
  We cover most of the key areas of commercial legal practice, including business transactions, corporate and finance, technology, real estate, international commercial law, litigation and dispute resolution, and workouts and restructurings.
• Limited Liability Companies
  Can promoters of limited liability companies be held liable for a breach of fiduciary duties that occurred prior to the formation of the LLC?
• Trade Secrets
• Intellectual Property
• Unfair Competition
  In view of the New York Court of Appeal’s decision, the Second Circuit upheld the District Court’s award of summary judgment in favor of the Bukhara Grill, including the unfair competition claim under New York law. Having agreed with the District Court that ITC adduced enough evidence of deliberate copying to satisfy that element of this claim, the Second Circuit focused on the sufficiency of ITC’s showing of secondary meaning.

Employment Law

• Wrongful Termination
  – SG&A is representing the former chief executive officer of two United States subsidiaries of a multinational company, in defending claims against him, as well as asserting claims for wrongful termination and misappropriation of his equity in the multinational parent.
• Employment Contract
  Plaintiff, Moras, after he was fired, sued his employer for breach of an employment agreement, fraud and unjust enrichment. He also sued Ramgopal, the CEO and single largest shareholder of the parent company of his employer, on a veil-piercing theory. In defining the issue on Ramgopal’s motion for summary judgment, the Court asked, “can Ramgopal be held individually liable for the corporate defendants' non-payment of wages by piercing the corporate veil and imposing shareholder liability?”
• Severance Agreement
  We represent both companies, executives and individuals in connection with the negotiation of employment and compensation arrangements, as well as severance agreements. In our employment practice, we focus on the business considerations that are important to our clients, such as fianancial reporting, compliance, tax impact and corporate governance and shareholder-related issues.

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  Mr. Goldman also has extensive experience in all aspects of real estate law and real estate workouts and litigation. He taught several courses at the NYU Real Estate Institute on real estate leasing and lease restructurings.
• Real Estate Transactions
  In our representation of clients who want to protect and most effectively exploit their intellectual capital, we recognize that a company's most valued intangible asset can be its intellectual property. We assist clients on these issues in the following general areas...

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  Practice Areas: Commercial Litigation; Business Law; Insurance Litigation; Creditors Rights; Collections; Mortgage Foreclosures; Estate and Pension Litigation; Trusts.