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Stein Riso Mantel, LLP is a full-service law firm
providing a complete range of legal services to the business community and to
individual clients.
The Firm prides itself on
providing practical and result-oriented legal services of the highest quality
and at cost effective rates. Our clients benefit from our ability to
effectuate expeditious and creative resolution of their matters. We provide
aggressive and effective representation of our clients' litigated disputes,
at all trial and appellate levels.
The Firm enjoys an AV
rating in Martindale-Hubbell, which signifies, by peer evaluation, the
highest competence and ethical levels.
We strive to provide each
client with the legal skill, sophistication and expertise required by the
task at hand, while emphasizing personalized, hands-on representation, with
the view towards becoming a valued advisor of the business and personal
matters entrusted to our care. It is our mission, and our proud
accomplishment, to fulfill that goal.
The Firm offers a full
complement of services in the areas of:
Tax Dispute Resolution and
Tax Litigation
Commercial and General
Litigation
Matrimonial and Family
White Collar Criminal
Defense
Bankruptcy, Business
Reorganization and Creditors’ Rights
Corporate, Business and
Real Estate
Lending, Foreclosure and
Loan Enforcement
Our Practice Areas
Our Tax
practice consists of representing individuals and businesses in tax
controversies, which includes tax audits, tax protests, and tax court
litigation.
We also
represent individuals and businesses that owe tax liabilities in compromising
those liabilities by filing “Offers In Compromise” or negotiating
installment agreements.
We further represent
a number of tax exempt organizations on compliance issues.
Lastly, we
advise individuals and companies with regard to general business matters,
purchases, and sales of businesses and the like.
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Our Commercial And
General Litigation practice represents clients in such diverse matters as
civil RICO actions; securities actions; construction matters; tax disputes;
corporate dissolution and corporate shareholder derivative actions;
partnership disputes; disputes involving the purchase and sale of goods from
foreign and domestic sources; real estate matters; mortgage and other lien
foreclosures; disputes involving religious institutions; and international
commercial disputes involving foreign governmental agencies and companies. We
represent clients in all forums, including state and federal trial and
appellate courts, arbitration panels, and administrative agencies. Our
Litigation Group also advises clients with respect to developing,
implementing and enhancing their human resource policies and practices in
order to minimize the risks of employment litigation.
Our Matrimonial and Family practice represents prominent and high net
worth clients in all aspects of their marital and family law needs, including
prenuptial agreements, divorce, and custody. Mr. Mantel, who heads our
Matrimonial Practice, was elected President of the American Academy of
Matrimonial Lawyers, New York Chapter, and is recognized by New York's Bar as
a pre-eminent leader in this complex and specialized field. Our Firm has an
outstanding reputation and successful track record in litigated matrimonial
cases, at trial and on appeal. Due to our firm's reputation and our financial
and analytical skills, we are also successful in reaching favorable
settlements for the vast majority of our matrimonial clients. We take pride
in our demonstrated ability to successfully manage the myriad of complex
circumstances raised in our clients' matters, including the multitude of
business and financial issues, complex separate property claims, public and private
equity entitlements, and child related issues. Quite often, as a result of
our successful representation of a matrimonial client, we are asked to remain
as a trusted counselor and advisor in our clients' business, financial and
personal affairs. This quality of having our client's respect, retain and
befriend our firm's matrimonial attorneys is the greatest testament to our
Matrimonial Practice.
Our White Collar Criminal Defense practice provides counsel to
individuals charged with federal or state crimes. We have expertise in
defending a wide array of charges, including income tax and sales tax
evasion, bribery, extortion, embezzlement, RICO, fraud, forgery, bid rigging,
securities fraud, and banking violations. Recently, we won an acquittal for a
businessman and company charged with Commercial Bribery, Scheming to Defraud
and anti-trust crimes, and we were able to set aside criminal sales tax
convictions against other business clients.
Our Bankruptcy And Business Reorganization, and Creditors ’Rights practice
handles matters ranging from complex business reorganizations and highly
sophisticated creditor claims to individual debt counseling, restructuring
and reorganization. In representing debtors and creditors, we have engaged in
debt restructuring involving creditor groups; represented clients in chapter
11 cases; and workouts outside of bankruptcy. We regularly are engaged in
corporate refinancing and complex bankruptcy litigation. As counsel for
debtors in chapter 11, our representative clientele experience include:
reorganizing sophisticated electronics manufacturers, residential real estate
complexes and the redevelopment of a complex mix of commercial and
residential real property in Manhattan. As creditors’ counsel, we
represent clients both in corporate and small business cases, as well as
individuals seeking to discharge debts. Often our chapter 11 reorganization
cases of individuals involve complex tax litigation. The Firm has represented
debtors and creditors in cases under chapters 7, 11 and 13 of the Bankruptcy
Code, and has extensive experience in guiding our clients through workouts
and arrangements outside of the bankruptcy laws. Unlike many other bankruptcy
departments, we have extensive litigation experience before bankruptcy courts
nationwide. Recently, our client was awarded summary judgment by the
Bankruptcy Court in Vermont dismissing over $165,000,000 of creditor claims
asserted under RICO. Asset protection counseling is an additional area of our
expertise.
Our Corporate, Business and Real Estate practice handles the
structuring, formation, financing (both equity and debt), business and
commercial requirements of medium and small businesses, not-for-profit
entities including corporations, limited liability companies, general and limited
partnerships and individuals. We provide counsel to our corporate clients
with regard to such diverse matters as structuring their ownership and
governance arrangements; shareholders' and directors’ meetings;
financing through debt and equity placements; preparing and negotiating
stockholder, limited liability company operating and partnership agreements;
employment, independent contractor, management services and consultant
agreements; manufacturing, supply, terms of sale, distribution and licensing
agreements; non-compete and confidentiality agreements; stock and asset
acquisitions and divestitures; joint venture arrangements; real estate
contracts of sale and lease agreements; and a full spectrum of
business-related services.
Our Lending, Foreclosure
and Loan Enforcement practice includes the representation of middle
market lenders in a variety of types of financing including working capital
lines of credit, term loans, asset-based loans and real estate loans.
Such credit facilities are provided to businesses and individuals in a wide
range of business endeavors. We also frequently represent the borrowers
in such loan transactions. Our representation of lenders also extends
to serving as counsel in connection with debt restructuring, work-out transactions
and the enforcement of the rights of lenders following defaulted loans,
including mortgage foreclosure proceedings, lift-stay proceedings and actions
to enforce loan and guaranty agreements.
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