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 multinational media conglomerate.
- Completed complex buy-sell agreements for a restaurant company with multiple partners and numerous real estate interests.
Creditors’ Rights
- Represented various financial institutions in workout, bankruptcy proceedings and foreclosure proceedings, including a $20 million condominium project, and an $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.
Elder Law
- 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.
Estate Administration
- Implemented a cryonic revocable trust.
- Administered a multimillion-dollar estate with real estate located in several states.
- Administered a multimillion-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.
Estate Planning And Wealth Preservation
- Implemented an installment purchase of limited partnership interests by using a sophisticated estate planning tool known as an “Intentionally Defective Grantor Trust” to protect appreciated assets from exposure to excessive 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.
Financial Services
- 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.
Land Use And Zoning
- 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).
Personal Injury
- Robert H. Nemeroff, Esq., of Friedman Schuman, P.C., recently settled Wrongful Death/Survival actions for a 27-year-old male who died when his motorcycle was struck from behind by a motor vehicle
- $9.4 million for a mother and three children catastrophically injured in a motor vehicle accident as they exited an Exxon gas station.
- $9.2 million in Philadelphia for union plasterers on a construction site during the conversion of The Sterling at 18th and JFK Boulevard.
- $3.4 million in Philadelphia for a union laborer who was injured on a construction site during the conversion of the City Hall Annex to the Marriott Courtyard Hotel.
- $1,240,000 for a construction worker who sustained life-altering injuries to his right foot and ankle when a co-worker knocked him off of the roof of a residential home being constructed.
- $850,000 for a vending machine installer injured on the job.
- $800,000 for independent tractor-trailer operator who was run over as a pedestrian at the Philadelphia Marine Terminal.
- $720,000 for a union glazer who permanently injured his leg in a work site accident during the construction of the new International Terminal at Philadelphia International Airport.
- $662,000 for an 85 year old man who sustained a fractured skull and severe brain injury, ultimately leading to his demise, as a result of slipping and falling on black ice in the parking lot of a retirement community.
- $470,000 for a union painter who sustained permanent injuries to his shoulder as a result of a fall-down accident on a job site.
- Negotiated a $3.6 million settlement for a union laborer who was injured on a construction site.
Real Estate
- 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.
- Obtained a $5 million settlement and a court-ordered receivership in a partnership dispute concerning a real estate development and management company.
Litigation
- $9.4 million for a mother and three children catastrophically injured in a motor vehicle accident as they exited an Exxon gas station.
- $9.2 million in Philadelphia for union plasterers on a construction site during the conversion of The Sterling at 18th and JFK Boulevard.
- $4.154 million verdict in Montgomery County for an automobile accident in which a young woman nursery school teacher sustained a broken back.
- $3.4 million in Philadelphia for a union laborer who was injured on a construction site during the conversion of the City Hall Annex to the Marriott Courtyard Hotel.
- $3 million settlement after the first day of trial for an automobile accident resulting in catastrophic injuries.
- $1.8 million award in binding mediation for a wrongful death/survival action in a cross-over accident on Route 309.
- $875K arbitration award for a dental student who sustained a closed head injury in an automobile accident.
- $850,000 for a vending machine installer injured on the job.
- $800,000 for independent tractor-trailer operator who was run over as a pedestrian at the Philadelphia Marine Terminal.
- $720,000 for a union glazer who permanently injured his leg in a work site accident during the construction of the new International Terminal at Philadelphia International Airport.
- $470,000 for a union painter who sustained permanent injuries to his shoulder as a result of a fall-down accident on a job site.