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EISENBERG,
TANCHUM & LEVY
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| Eisenberg Tanchum & Levy
("ETL") is dedicated to quality legal representation and
counsel to the business, real estate and financial communities.
The firm was organized in 1985 with a commitment to provide
responsive, creative and comprehensive legal services to its clients,
both on a transactional basis and in the context of on‑going legal
representation. ETL has been successful in meeting its goals and serves its
clients with the highest degree of professionalism. ETL understands the legal and business needs of its clients,
including their desire for responsive service at a reasonable cost. The firm offers its clients a broad range of legal specialties, including real estate, corporate, litigation, finance and entertainment law. Each matter is handled by a partner of the firm, all of whom are skilled and experienced negotiators and draftsmen. Set forth below is a brief description of the nature of the projects on which the lawyers of the firm have worked, together with their biographies.
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CORPORATE General Corporate Representation; Contracts. ETL represents public and private corporations in various industries, including real estate, communications, banking, entertainment, energy, apparel and textile, manufacturing, retail, fragrance, publishing, food service, recording, importing and health care. In connection with the firm's representation of its clients, each member of the firm engages in the negotiation, drafting and review of almost every kind of business agreement, including loan agreements, shareholder agreements, agency agreements, brokerage agreements, joint venture agreements, manufacturing agreements, production agreements, distribution agreements and license agreements. Employment Matters. The firm represents employers and employees in connection with employment contracts, severance and termination negotiations, and litigation. Trademark Registrations. ETL has considerable experience in advising clients on trademark, copyright and other intellectual property law matters, and has a significant trademark registration practice. Mergers and Acquisitions. The firm, on a continuing basis, represents numerous clients in connection with the sale and purchase of private and public corporations, including asset purchases, stock purchases and exchange offers. Private Placements. ETL has extensive experience in structuring business transactions, including organizing business ventures, structuring the initial financing of such ventures through the private placement of stock or limited partnership interests and performing the legal work necessary to develop such ventures into operating entities. Securities. Members of the firm have considerable experience in securities matters, including the preparation of registration statements, proxy statements, Regulation D disclosure memoranda and reporting documents, such as Forms 10‑K and 8‑K, processing Rule 144 transactions, preparing broker‑dealer registrations and blue sky compliance. The firm represents both issuers and underwriters.
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REAL ESTATE Purchases and Sales; Work-Outs; Commercial Leasing; Syndications. ETL is experienced in the acquisition, development, and sale of residential, commercial and industrial properties. ETL represents both mortgages and mortgagors in connection with acquisition loans, construction loans and refinancing. The firm also represents lessors and lessees in connection with commercial leasing matters, including net leases, office leases and retail shopping mall leases. In addition, the firm counsels clients engaged in work-outs and restructurings of loans and leases and represents creditors and debtors in various types of real estate bankruptcy cases. Members of the firm also have broad experience in representing multi‑unit residential developments, apartment conversions and syndications. Cooperatives, Condominiums and Lofts. ETL has extensive legal expertise in all areas of cooperative and condominium ownership of real property, including representing sponsors, cooperative corporations, and purchasers and sellers of individual cooperative, condominium and detached residential units and of unsold shares.
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FINANCE AND EQUIPMENT LEASING The firm represents financial institutions, lenders and borrowers in connection with secured and unsecured commercial lending transactions, including asset‑based financing, factoring and revolving credit agreements. ETL also represents major lending institutions in the area of residential mortgages and cooperative apartment loans.
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LITIGATION ETL has a substantial practice in the areas of entertainment, real estate, commercial and corporate litigation and arbitration. ETL has a specialty in copyright, trademark and music litigation. The firm also represents lessors and lessees in commercial real estate litigation as well as parties involved in employment and contract disputes, bankruptcy cases, real estate brokerage disputes, and securities fraud and insurance litigation. Members of ETL are experienced in all phases of civil litigation, including discovery, motion practice, trial and appellate work.
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ENTERTAINMENT ETL represents both entertainment companies and talent in the recording, broadcasting and film industries. The firm's entertainment practice includes litigation and transactional representation. In addition, the firm acts as counsel to broadcast entities providing general corporate representation, including mergers and acquisitions, as well as advising clients with regard to Federal Communication Commission regulatory matters. The firm also performs pre-publication libel and defamation review for certain of its clients.
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BIOGRAPHIES Richard D. Eisenberg (reisenberg@etllaw.com). Richard is a 1971 cum laude graduate of Harvard College, having been nominated by the College for a Rhodes Scholarship and having received the highest scholarship award granted to Harvard undergraduates. He is a 1975 graduate of the Boston University School of Law and a member of the Bar of the State of New York. Richard has substantial experience in real estate and corporate matters, and taught a course at Baruch College on Cooperatives and Condominiums. He is a Director of the Jewish Guild for the Blind, and formerly was the President of InTouch Networks, Inc., and a Trustee of the Brooklyn Music School. He started his legal career at Barrett Smith Schapiro Simon & Armstrong and, prior to founding the firm, was a partner in Greenberg Irwin & Weisinger. Stewart L. Levy (slevy@etllaw.com). Stewart graduated from the Yale Law School in 1977 where he was an editor of the Yale Legislative Services after having graduated summa cum laude from Columbia College in 1974. Prior to joining the firm in January, 1990, Stewart was a member of the firm of Parcher Arisohn & Hayes, P.C. where he specialized in entertainment-related litigation. Previously, he was associated with the firms of Schulte Roth & Zabel and Kornstein Meister & Veiz. He has had considerable experience in copyright and trademark matters and is well-versed in many facets of the recording industry. Stewart served as Co‑Chairman of the Litigation and Legislation Sub-Committee of the New York State Bar Association's Entertainment and Sports Law Committee. Michael L. Tanchum (mtanchum@etllaw.com). Michael graduated from the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 and with distinction from Duke University School of Law, in 1972. At Duke, Michael served as an editor of the Duke Law Journal and received several awards for academic excellence. Michael has had over twenty-five years' experience in corporate and real estate matters and is a member of the Bar of the State of New York. Michael is currently a member of the Information Technology Advisory Board of Duke Law School. He started practice in New York as an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. He then helped to establish the real estate syndication department at Demov Morris Levin & Shein before leaving to become the corporate partner of Nitkin Alkalay Handler & Robbins. He also served as corporate counsel to a major robotics corporation.
Associates James E. Doherty (jdoherty@etllaw.com). James graduated from Boston College's Carroll School of Management with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1990 and earned his Juris Doctor degree from the Fordham University School of Law in 1993. He is a member of the Bar of both the State of New York and the State of New Jersey, as well as the District of Columbia. James has served on the Committee on Trademark Law within the Intellectual Property Law section of the New York State Bar Association as well as the Entertainment Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association. He has significant litigation and counseling experience in the areas of entertainment law, intellectual property law, labor and employment law and general civil litigation. Prior to joining the firm, James was associated with Manning, Raab, Dealy & Sturm. Counsel Elliott D. Hefler (ehefler@etllaw.com). Elliott graduated in 1967 from Columbia College and earned his Juris Doctor degree from New York University in 1970. Elliott served as an Editor of the NYU Law Review and received awards for academic distinction. He is a member of the Bars of the States of New York and Florida. His areas of practice include real estate, corporate law and trusts and estates. Elliott was formerly a partner at Greenberg Irwin & Weisinger and an associate at Lord Day & Lord and Robinson, Silverman, Pearce, Aronsohn & Berman. He was also the General Counsel of two privately held real estate development and management corporations. Letty M. Tanchum. Letty graduated from Duke University, summa cum laude, in 1971 and Duke University Law School in 1973. For 15 years, Letty worked as in house counsel at Capital Cities/ABC, specializing in all facets of communications law. Letty left ABC in 1989 and joined Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions, Inc., as its Vice President of Legal and Business Affairs. She currently serves as its General Counsel and was instrumental in coordinating Oprah's defense in the much publicized Texas Beef Libel litigation. She specializes in communications law, libel review and talent representation. Letty is a member of the Federal Communications Bar Association and serves on the Board of Visitors of Duke Law School. She also serves as a director on two of Ms. Winfrey's charitable foundations. |