Ontario County Securities Lawyers

Mark Zafrin has over thirty years of transactional experience and handles a broad range of matters for clients in the Healthcare & Pharmaceutical and Financial Services industries. He possesses in-depth knowledge of FHA and conventional mortgage financing, mezzanine and private equity financing and healthcare Certificate of Need applications. He has vast experience representing clients in extremely complex and difficult mergers and acquisitions of healthcare facilities, hospitals, federally financed clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and large physician practice groups. As General Counsel, Mr. Zafrin advises and assists his clients, ranging from nursing homes to assisted living centers and clinics (including primary care...

Jessica A. Murzyn has been a senior counsel at Rich, Intelisano & Katz, LLP since April 2013. Ms. Murzyn represents individual and institutional investors in securities arbitrations and litigation against financial firms.

Prior to joining Rich, Intelisano & Katz, LLP, Ms. Murzyn was an associate at Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP from October 2008 to March 2013. At Friedman Kaplan, she represented a variety of individual and corporate clients in securities, real estate and general commercial litigation and arbitrations. For example, she represented a high net worth client in a FINRA arbitration against the client’s investment...

Sandra P. Lahens is a partner at Lax & Neville LLP. Sandra’s practice involves representing businesses and individuals in commercial litigation and arbitration regarding securities and investment disputes, employment matters and regulatory investigations. She has successfully arbitrated and mediated cases before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”), JAMS, and litigated cases in federal and state courts, including in appeals before the New York Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the New York State Appellate Division.

Sandra represents investors nationwide in customer sales practice disputes against their registered representatives, broker dealers and registered investment advisors...

Asher Hawkins was admitted to practice in New York in January 2015. Prior to joining Frank LLP, he served a postgraduate judicial clerkship with the State of New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department.

Warren Law Group is a business law firm that provides its clients with fierce strategic advocacy in the courtroom and sage advice in the boardroom. Our approach is to give our clients the freedom to pursue their vision while mitigating their risks and minimizing liability exposure. Warren Law Group represents privately held businesses of all sizes as well as investors and not-for-profit organizations in everything from formation and deal-making to protecting their rights in litigation and arbitration. Contact Chris Warren today to learn about how Warren Law Group can protect your rights and bring your business to the next level.

Gerard Romski serves as Of Counsel at Rich, Intelisano & Katz, LLP. Mr. Romski practices in the areas of construction litigation, real estate and land use law, commercial law and government relations.

Mr. Romski holds a Bachelor of Arts from the New York Institute of Technology and received his Juris Doctor degree from Brooklyn Law School. He is a member of the bar of State of New York and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern District of New York and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Mr. Romski is on the Board...

Mr. Ross Pitcoff, Founder of Pitcoff Law Group, has 10+ years of corporate transactional and business litigation experience. A graduate of Fordham University School of Law in 2010. Ross Pitcoff represents business owners and, on occasion, individuals, in all types of complex commercial disputes. Ross Pitcoff also provides general counsel and corporate-transactional services to businesses in the financial services, and medical professional industries. This includes company formation and strategy, review of contractual and vendor agreements, acquisitions and overseeing asset purchases and sales. Contact Ross Pitcoff: ross@pitcofflawgroup.com (646) 386-0990

Brandon is the Managing Attorney at the Law Firm of Brandon S. Schwartz, P.C. Prior to founding the firm, Brandon worked in the Corporate practice of the New York office of DLA Piper, a global law firm, through a post-graduate fellowship program provided by the Two-Year JD Honors Program at New York Law School. During this experience, Brandon was involved in a broad range of corporate matters including corporate governance, due diligence, initial public offerings, and M&A transactions. Additionally, Brandon worked as an attorney and consultant for small and mid-size law firms, working on corporate and real estate matters, as...

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Jaimie Fried Dockray joined Rich, Intelisano & Katz, LLP as Special Counsel in 2013. She represents both individuals and employers in employment-related matters. Ms. Dockray has extensive experience representing both individuals and employers in all aspects of workplace disputes, including contract negotiations and litigation. Her clients have included high net worth individuals as well as financial institutions and nonprofit organizations.

Prior to joining Rich, Intelisano & Katz, LLP, Ms. Dockray worked at Bingham McCutchen, LLP for approximately 15 years. While at Bingham, Ms. Dockray practiced law in their management-side labor and employment group, representing public and private...

I am a Partner at Iorio Altamirano LLP, a securities arbitration law firm in New York City. We represent investors nationwide who have suffered investment losses due to wrongful conduct by financial advisors and brokerage firms.

Iorio Altamirano LLP has nearly 20 years of combined experience as securities arbitration lawyers. We have helped individual investors, groups of individuals, business entities, family offices, credit unions, and institutional investors recover nearly $100 million in investment losses.

I have handled hundreds of FINRA arbitration claims and have worked closely with retail and institutional investors. I combine my broad experience in the securities arbitration field with...

Joseph A. Gershman is a partner of Rich, Intelisano & Katz. His practice focuses on complex commercial, securities, real estate and bankruptcy litigation. Mr. Gershman is rated by Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings as an AV Preeminent attorney, its highest designation, with his peers recognizing him as “an excellent lawyer” and “an outstanding litigator”. He is also a recipient of The Legal Aid Society’s 2013 Pro Bono Publico Award for outstanding service to the Society and its clients.

Mr. Gershman has extensive experience within the areas of complex commercial, securities, real estate and bankruptcy litigation, as well as commercial...

The focus of our practice is the representation of individual and institutional investors in arbitrations and litigations involving claims of breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, mismanagement, stock fraud, suitability, unauthorized trading, negligence and churning.

I also regularly represent those who work in the financial services regarding recruiting practices including issues relating to the Protocol for Broker Recruiting; non-solicit, non-compete and other restrictive covenants; customer privacy and other regulatory issues; best-practices for preserving a book of business through a transition; Form U5 negotiations; responding to FINRA inquiries; promissory notes; bonus disputes; team disputes; temporary restraining orders (TROs); expedited FINRA arbitrations;...

Daniel D’Costa, Esq. is the managing partner at D’Costa Law, P.C. His practice focuses on FINRA securities arbitration, fraud, personal injury, workers’ compensation, and insurance provider denials of no-fault benefits for both injured parties and health care providers. As an experienced litigator, Daniel has represented all types of clients around the nation and abroad in court and various forms of alternative dispute resolution forums. Daniel is passionate about the law, his clients and providing personal attention to each of his clients in order to make the legal process as stress free as possible while achieving the best possible outcome. Daniel represents...

Michael S. Komar has almost twenty-five years of experience handling complex insurance coverage and commercial litigation matters. Mr. Komar's insurance coverage litigation experience has included handling dozens actions involving pollution, asbestos, silica, lead paint, toxic tort, construction defect, general liability and California Prop. 64 and 65 claims, in addition to representing insurance clients in prepackaged bankruptcy, reinsurance, broker liability and first-party property disputes. Many of the coverage actions defended by Mr. Komar involved claims not only for declaratory judgment and breach of contract, but also bad faith and unfair claim handling practices.

Mr. Komar has developed an intimate working knowledge of...

Mr. Williams' experience includes both trial and transactional work. Mr. Williams has appeared in Federal and State courts, representing individuals and businesses in various matters, including claims involving Employment Discrimination, Bankruptcy Adversarial Proceedings, Breach of Contract, Real Estate Disputes, Real Estate Partition, Real Estate Litigation, Shareholder Disputes, and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOP). On the transactional side of his practice, Mr. Williams focuses on Private Placement Memorandum (PPM), Choice of Entities issues, Partnership Dissolution, Post-and-pre-nuptial Agreements, and Trusts and Estate Planning.

Joseph’s practice is concentrated in the areas of regulation of financial services firms, securities litigation and commercial litigation.

A former investigative journalist, Mark is a successful anti-fraud attorney with more than twenty years of experience in complex civil litigation. He has represented qui tam whistleblowers under the False Claims Act as well as victims of fraud under the federal securities laws and the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). His efforts have resulted in the recovery of hundreds of millions of dollars for clients.

Prior to founding Mark A. Strauss Law, PLLC, Mark was a partner at Kirby McInerney LLP, a respected plaintiffs’ class action firm that was named one of the “Most Feared Plaintiffs’ Firms” by Law360.com....

Raoul Duggal is a corporate attorney focusing on the representation of start-up and venture-backed companies. He has advised companies and investors on numerous venture capital and angel investments and exits. In addition, he has extensive experience advising clients on a broad spectrum of domestic and international M&A transactions, including restructuring and refinancing transactions. Raoul also has experience with public companies and has advised on domestic and international IPOs. Raoul has represented a wide variety of start-up companies and investors, as well as numerous mid- and large-sized U.S. and European corporate clients. Raoul has extensive experience in such industry sectors as technology,...

Mark R. Basile started his career at Shea & Gould in New York City and throughout the course of his career has, and continues to represent small publicly traded companies in securities and corporate finance litigation in both state and federal courts around the country. Mr. Basile won a landmark decision (2021) for small public companies in the New York Court of Appeals that agreed that certain corporate funding instruments are subject to NY's criminal usury laws. Mr. Basile is also a Professor of Law & Entrepreneurship at The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in New York teaching a course that he...

Lois has experience in handling legal matters in the USA, Canada, China and European Union. She is licensed in New York and Michigan along with Ontario, Canada. This vast breadth of experience and knowledge covers most domestic and international work required in modern business contracts. Speaking native English and Mandarin Chinese has proven useful in resolving the business cultural and conflicting legal systems between The United States and China when designing business agreements. Lois specializes in StartUps, Contracts, Merger and Acquisition, Securities, Cryptocurrency, SaaS, Tax Planning, IP Laws. Lois can provide direct answers to what documents are needed to start...

My name is Joe Potashnik. I am the principal attorney at Joseph Potashnik & Associates We have offices in Manhattan and represent clients in four areas. 1. NYC residents that are under criminal investigation or have been arrested on State criminal charges. 2. We represent New York City residents that are under investigation or have been arrested on Federal Charges. 3. We represent professionals in the Medical and Healthcare field that might lose, or have lost, their professional license. 4. And we represent residents of New York City, or their family members, in all government investigations. We can assist any NYC resident and offer our legal...

Robert J. Grand is of counsel to Lax & Neville LLP. Mr. Grand’s practice is focused on representing corporations and individuals in complex civil litigation and arbitration involving securities and other financial products, employment, real estate, intellectual property, unfair business practices, and other commercial tort-related matters before federal and state courts, and private arbitration panels. Mr. Grand represents investors, financial service professionals, investment funds and financial institutions in securities litigation and arbitration, as well as in investigations and enforcement proceedings initiated by regulatory agencies such as FINRA, the SEC, and the CFTC.

Mr. Grand has extensive experience representing founders, partners, joint...

I'm a former prosecutor, current defense attorney, and a proud New Yorker of 18 years. My areas of focus are criminal defense and professional medical discipline. I'm familiar with securities regulations and investigated public corruption for state government. As your defense lawyer, I would bring a decade of trial and investigation experience and an eye for the weaknesses in even the most complex of cases. I live in Brooklyn with my partner and two bulldogs.

I offer the following: - Strategic and legal advice to small/mid-cap businesses and their founders - Corporate and LLC formation - Partnership, shareholder and LLC operating agreements - Employment contracts - Non-compete, non-solicit and confidentiality agreements - Trademark and copyright registration - Advice relating to seed and venture capital financings, as well as founders' exits (e.g. M&A) I have advised dozens of companies in such diverse sectors as entertainment, technology and digital media, food products and fashion.

• Pragmatic interpretation, drafting, negotiation, clarification and explanation to management, execution, & closing of all contractual matters. • Negotiation and design of employment agreements, stock option, stock appreciation rights, & termination settlement arrangements. • Initiation, monitoring & management of long-term sourcing arrangements in multiple supply-chain and vendor environments (China, England, Mexico & Canada). • Entity formations & structures inclusive of tax & corporate governance in accordance with constituent objectives. • Analysis, creation & drafting of covenant structures in high-yield debt & commercial loan agreements. • Leveraged buyouts utilizing equity, high yield/bank debt sourced publicly/privately. • Exhaustive familiarity with 33/34 Act, Reg. A & “mini-IPO” provisions. • Drafting,...

John is a international lawyer with multiple post graduate degrees from both U.S. and European schools. He is a certified Fraud Examiner and Certified Controls Specialist. He has extensive multifaceted experience in business law and litigation.