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DENNIS L. STEIN concentrates in complex tax matters
and estate planning. Mr. Stein is a magna cum laude graduate of the George Washington
University School of Law (1980) and earned his LLM degree in taxation from
New York University (1981). Mr. Stein has particular expertise in the
representation of clients in the securities industry, legal and accounting
professions. Mr. Stein's thorough knowledge of tax, business and bankruptcy
law, together with the firm's strong litigation expertise, often results in
achieving extraordinary resolutions. Mr. Stein also often acts as a tax and
business expert in complex matrimonial litigation. Mr. Stein has been
appointed and serves a member of the Business Advisory Council for the
National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), consulting on tax issues
and various legislative proposals, and was the recipient of the NRCC’s
Republican of the Year Award for 2001.
GERARD A. RISO concentrates in complex commercial and criminal
litigation. A magna cum laude graduate of the Pace University School of
Law (1982), Mr. Riso is a former New York County Assistant District
Attorney. Mr. Riso has extensive trial experience, and has been
involved in many complex criminal and civil trials. Mr. Riso has
extensive experience in representing clients in international commercial
disputes. Mr. Riso has won the dismissal and acquittal of various clients
in many significant criminal cases. Mr. Riso's training and ability
enables him to access and utilize the essential issues and nuances of
individual cases, and thereby achieve practical and global solutions to
complex problems. In addition to his admission to the New York State
Courts, Mr. Riso is admitted to the United States Supreme Court; the United
States Court of Appeals for the Second, Third, Seventh, and Tenth Circuits;
United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern District of New
York; the United States District Court for the District of Colorado;
the US Court of Claims; and the US Tax Court. Mr. Riso is also a member
of the Association of Independent Private Sector Inspectors. Mr. Riso
enjoys an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
ALLAN D. MANTEL is
a pre-eminent matrimonial and business attorney, with more than 30 years of
extensive trial and appellate experience. Mr. Mantel represents many of New
York’s most prominent and high net worth clients in their divorce, custody
and estate matters. While renowned as a skilled and accomplished litigator,
with numerous ground breaking reported cases, Mr. Mantel’s exceptional reputation and his
adroit negotiation skills, enable his clients to reach favorable settlements often
without resorting to litigation. Mr.
Mantel takes seriously and respects his prominent client’s desire and need
for the utmost discretion and privacy.
Often and based on the bond of trust created with his clients, Mr.
Mantel is requested to continue to serve as a trusted adviser and fiduciary
of many of his client’s family and business enterprises. Mr. Mantel is a Fellow of the American
Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and was elected the President of its New York
Chapter (2006-2008). He is a Fellow
of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and through peer
evaluation, Mr. Mantel has been selected as a premier matrimonial attorney by
the New York City “Super Lawyers”
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Mr. Mantel received his
law degree from the SUNY/ Buffalo Law School (1976) and serves on his law
school’s Dean's Advisory Council. Mr.
Mantel enjoys an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
IVAN W. DREYER has
represented U.S. and foreign clients, both private and publicly-held, in a
wide range of corporate and commercial transactions for more than 25 years.
He has extensive experience working with businesses in their early and middle
stages of growth and development, both in putting their ownership structures
together and in advising them on their capital raising, expansion and
commercial activities. He has also guided many closely-held and family-held
businesses in structuring buyout arrangements among the owners. He has also
represented many overseas companies in establishing business operations in
the United States. His corporate expertise includes corporate finance,
secured and unsecured lending, venture capital, securities, mergers and
acquisitions, recapitalizations, joint-venture, cross-border transactions and
not-for-profit entities. On the commercial side, Mr. Dreyer provides guidance
to companies on their manufacturing, supply, sale, leasing, licensing,
distribution and marketing of their products and services. Prior to joining
Stein Riso Mantel, LLP, Mr. Dreyer was a partner of the law firms of Jenkens and Gilchrist Parker Chapin LLP and Baer Marks
& Upham LLP. Mr. Dreyer was a member of the Law
Review of Hofstra University School of Law, where
he obtained a Juris Doctor degree and also holds
Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
KEVIN M. MCDONOUGH concentrates in Matrimonial and
Family law. He received his law degree from Fordham University (1995) and his
undergraduate degree from Yale University (1992). Mr. McDonough is admitted
to the New York Bar, and is a member of the New York County Lawyers’
Association (Matrimonial Law Committee) and the Westchester County Bar
Association (Family Law Section).
OUR COUNSEL
MARK I. CHINITZ concentrates in Creditors’ Rights,
Bankruptcy and Business Reorganization, and Commercial And General
Litigation. A graduate of Hofstra University's
School of Laws accelerated two year program (1980), he was the law secretary
to the Honorable Raymond W. Young of the New Jersey Superior Court, and is a
summa cum laude graduate of the University of Virginia (1978) and attended
University College London. Mr. Chinitz practiced
with the law firm of Weil, Gotshal & Manges in their Business Reorganization Department, where
he worked on a number of substantial chapter 11 bankruptcies, including
Texaco and Continental Airlines, was one of the two attorneys who represented
the Government of Argentina in its world-wide debt restructuring and new
credits involving approximately $60 billion held by 850 banks, and worked on
many non-bankruptcy restructurings including the $450 million Alabama River
Pulp Mill reorganization, representing a six insurance company group led by
The Prudential Life Insurance Company. He is Legal counsel for the New York
State Amateur Hockey Association, Inc., the governing body of Amateur Hockey
for N.Y. State under USA Hockey, and has chaired and lectured on bankruptcy
for Mandatory Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) classes, and has addressed
various civic organizations. In addition to his admission to the New York and
New Jersey State courts, Mr. Chinitz is admitted to
the Federal Bars of the Southern, Eastern and Northern Districts of New York,
the District of New Jersey, and the United States Court of Appeals for the
Second Circuit.
DAVID H. SCULNICK is an AV rated attorney with more
than 30 years of trial and appellate experience. For 28 years he was
with a prominent NYC defense firm where, as an equity partner, he was in
charge of the general liability, insurance, and products liability practice
groups. He contemporaneously served as the head of his prior firm’s
appellate practice group and has written and argued over 100 cases in both
the State and Federal appellate courts. Mr. Sculnick
is a 1973 graduate of New York Law School, where he was a member of the Law
Review’s Board of Editors. Mr. Sculnick
lectures extensively at advanced seminars sponsored by bar associations and
has moderated programs for the NYC Bar Association. He is an active member of
the New York City Bar Association, sitting on the Committee on the State
Court of Superior Jurisdiction, and has been a member of the NYCLA chapter of
the American Inns of Court since its inception in New York City.
MICHELLE FRANK holds three postgraduate degrees
from Fordham University: a Masters of Business Administration with a
concentration in Accounting, a Masters of Science
degree in Taxation, and a Juris Doctor. She earned
her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Brandeis University. She is admitted
to practice in the states of New York and Connecticut. Michelle Frank, is a
Tax Attorney and Certified Public Accountant. Her expertise covers a broad
range of complex tax area with emphasis on estate planning, IRS and New York
State Collection proceedings and tax compliance for trust, estates,
individuals, S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies and
not for profit entities, as well as surrogate's court practice and procedure.
She is admitted to the New York State and Westchester Bar Association.
OUR
ASSOCIATES
EDWARD R. MINSON concentrates in Creditors’ Rights, Bankruptcy and
General Litigation. He has represented corporations, trustees and
individuals in various bankruptcy proceedings and has experience in general
litigation matters. Mr. Minson received
an LL.M. in Bankruptcy (2007) and a J.D. (2002) from St. John’s University
School of Law. As a student, Mr. Minson
received the CALI Award in Bankruptcy Ethics, Fraud and Malpractice, served
as a Senior Staff Member on The New York Litigator and interned for the
Honorable Arthur J. Gonzalez in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Southern District of New York. He also earned a B.A. in English
(1999) from the College of the Holy Cross. Mr. Minson is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute
and the New York State Bar Association. In addition to his
admission to the New York State courts, Mr. Minson
is admitted to the Federal Bars of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New
York.
JEFFREY SCHULMAN concentrates in Matrimonial
and Family law. Mr. Schulman received his law degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo
School of Law (2003) and his undergraduate degree from the State University of
New York (1998). Mr. Schulman has extensive experience as a litigator, including
representing clients in class and collective actions. Mr. Schulman is admitted to
practice in New York State and the United States District Courts for the Southern
and Eastern Districts of New York and is a member of the New York County Lawyers’
Association.
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