Success Stories

Corporate and Business Law

Represented a life science research product manufacturer in the sale of stock and assets, including its U.K. subsidiary to a public company.
Implemented a reorganization plan for a company with revenues in excess of $1 billion, the plan involved the liquidation or merger of more than a dozen operating subsidiaries and affiliates.
Negotiated software licensing agreements between an early-stage developer and a multi-national media conglomerate.
Completed complex buy-sell agreements for a restaurant company with multiple partners and numerous real estate interests.

Represented various financial institutions in workout, bankruptcy proceedings and foreclosure proceedings, including a $20 million condominium project, and a $8 million condominium project.
Negotiated and documented agreements of sale for a $3.5 million commercial building on behalf of financial investors holding REO property.
Represented a debtor in a $26 million hotel debt restructuring.
Successfully defended two secured creditors in state court litigation initiated by contractors claiming unjust enrichment and seeking the imposition of constructive trusts in an amount in excess of $2 million.

Instituted various guardianship proceedings for payment of fees owed to long term-care providers.
Successfully petitioned for orphans in a dispute between a corporate trustee and the grantor of a minor's trust.

Implemented a Cryonic Revocable Trust.
Administered a multi-million-dollar estate with real estate located in several states.
Administered a multi-million-dollar estate that involved the sale of an operating business.
Administered an insolvent estate with gross in excess of $4 million that included business and real estate interests.

Implemented an installment purchase of limited partnership interests by creating an Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust to protect appreciated assets from exposure to the federal estate tax.
Designed and implemented an estate plan for a high net-worth real estate developer, including wills, revocable trusts, an irrevocable life insurance trust, charitable bequests, and a long-term succession plan.
Completed a Charitable Lead Trust for the benefit of a local university, resulting in income and estate tax savings for the donor and a transfer of $1 million to the university.

As lender's counsel, structured, drafted, and closed a complex $18 million tax-free construction to permanent loan transaction for a not-for-profit entity.
Served as lender's counsel for over $100 million in asset-based credit facilities secured by real estate and other collateral in multiple jurisdictions.
Represented lender in all aspects of foreclosure, bankruptcy, and possession of $15 million in commercial property.

Facilitated a unique partnership between local municipalities and a private developer to improve telecommunication infrastructure construction and development process.
Successfully secured zoning and land development for an 85 unit age restricted housing complex in Elkins Park for Federation Housing.
Represented a synagogue in a landmark federal case with claims based on violations of The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 (RLUIPA).

Assisted the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission with property acquisitions by eminent domain for the I-95 and Pennsylvania Turnpike interchanges.
Represented elected tax collectors in a lawsuit against two Bucks County school districts over reduced compensation.
Facilitated one of the most significant conservation transactions in the history of Montgomery County with the preservation of 400- plus acres of Erdenheim Farm as open space, free from future development.

Secured a $9.7 million verdict for a union plasterer injured on construction site.
Negotiated a $3.6 million settlement for a union laborer who was injured on a construction site.
Obtained a $5 million settlement and a court-ordered receivership in a partnership dispute concerning a real estate development and management company.

Represented a regional commercial developer in all aspects of the development of several large shopping center projects and a multitude of free standing retail properties.
Represented a charitable organization in the purchase, financing, and zoning of the Elkins Estate, a venerable 42 acre landmark.
Represented a regional commercial real estate investment partnership in connection with the acquisition and financing of a portfolio of retail drug store properties.
Represented landlords in the negotiation of leases and operation and easement agreements with some of the nation's largest “big box” retailers such as Lowes, Wal-Mart, Best- Buy, Barnes & Noble, Sports Authority and Old Navy.

Manage a multi-brand trademark portfolio for a New York Stock Exchange-traded health care company with over $2 billion in annual revenues.
Secured a $750,000 jury verdict in a misappropriation of trade secret case.
Negotiated software licensing agreements between an early-stage developer and a multi-national media conglomerate.