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Alternative Dispute Resolution

Our Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice offers intelligent and creative mediation and arbitration strategies to help our clients resolve their disputes out of court and avoid the time and cost associated with the traditional judicial process.

Appellate

Our Appellate Practice offers our clients comprehensive guidance through the appellate process and sound strategies for successfully navigating their appeals.

Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Governance

Our Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Governance Practice employs a multidisciplinary approach to distressed situations with a focus on proactive, creative, commercial and value-added effective solutions and strategies.

Business Litigation

Our dynamic bench of business litigators defends corporations and individuals in complex, high-stakes matters in courts throughout the country.

Commercial Lending & Finance

Our Commercial Lending & Finance team represents financial sponsors, strategic buyers and sellers, operating companies, top-tier leverage buy-out and private equity firms, banks, mezzanine lenders, hedge funds and other financial institutions and parties in a variety of financing transactions.

Compensation & Benefits

Employees are a company’s most important asset, and our lawyers provide comprehensive advice to a wide variety of companies as to all facets of their compensation and benefits matters. Our abilities allow our clients to attract, retain and incentivize their employees and protect their commercial interests.

Corporate

Clients rely on our corporate lawyers' business judgment, legal advice, market knowledge and analytical skills to identify legal and business issues and solve problems.

Corporate Governance

Our Corporate Governance lawyers advise public and private companies, private investment funds and partnerships on all aspects of corporate governance best practices, as well as compliance with federal and state laws and regulations and stock exchange requirements.

Digital Assets

Our Digital Assets Group represents some of the largest and most significant names in the sector, drawing upon our depth of experience and comprehensive understanding of cryptocurrency, DeFi, DAOs and NFTs. 

ERISA Investment Advisory Services

Our lawyers represent a wide range of clients on the ERISA regulatory issues that are associated with investments by U.S. pension plans. These clients may be accepting investments from ERISA investors or engaging in other transactions with ERISA counterparties, or have fiduciary responsibility for managing ERISA plan assets.

Emerging Companies

Morrison Cohen understands that entrepreneurs and growth-stage companies need more than just a legal service provider—they need advisors and counselors who know the ropes and can guide them through key decisions.

Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)

Our lawyers bring a sophisticated multi-disciplinary approach to ESOP transactions and compliance. We regularly advise and represent business owners, ESOP fiduciaries, lenders and ESOP companies in the areas of ERISA, tax, corporate finance, commercial law and corporate governance as these relate to ESOPs.

Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits

Our Executive Compensation & Employee Benefits Practice represents companies and individuals in virtually all aspects of the employment relationship and in a wide variety of industries. We provide strategic advice and offer creative, commercial solutions designed to achieve favorable outcomes for our clients.

Executive Representation

Our attorneys represent individuals at all levels of employment in a wide variety of industries. Our national reputation in the area of executive representation has been earned by our careful attention to each individual’s personal and professional goals, our deep knowledge of market practice and our commercial approach to negotiating. Our clients know that we “get the deal done.”

Family Office

Our dedicated Family Office group draws from the experience of attorneys throughout the Firm to offer a multidisciplinary approach to serve the ever-changing needs of our single and multi-family office clients and their individual family members. 

Financial Services Litigation

Our business litigators possess the necessary skills to dissect complex financial instruments and agreements and present their analyses in clear, concise and persuasive terms.

Franchise & Distribution Law

Our Franchise & Distribution Law Practice represents mature and start-up franchise and distribution systems in all facets of their business, with particular emphasis on their relationships with franchisees and distributors.

Healthcare Litigation

Our healthcare litigators represent numerous physicians and physician groups in federal and state trial and appellate cases, arbitrations, mediations and other alternative dispute resolution proceedings in various forums, and administrative agency and internal hospital proceedings. 

Individual Client Services

Our Individual Client Services Practice provides creative and effective personal, financial, charitable and tax planning to individual clients, closely-held family companies, foundations and charities.

Insurance Litigation

Our Insurance Practice blends the talents of experienced commercial litigators with the laser focus of insurance coverage counsel to deliver top-flight service to our clients.

Intellectual Property Litigation

Our Intellectual Property Practice works not merely to achieve the best possible outcome, but to develop cost-efficient, long-term litigation and commercial strategies to best protect and enhance our clients' valuable IP rights.

Investment Funds and Advisers

Our Investment Funds and Advisers Practice provides all-encompassing legal services to investors and sponsors in the alternative asset space. Our clients include investment advisers – registered and unregistered, domestic and international – and asset allocators of all sizes, ranging from high-net-worth individuals to asset management arms of large financial institutions.

Labor & Employment Law

Our Labor & Employment Law lawyers counsel businesses of all sizes and levels of complexity in connection with their day-to-day employment concerns, focusing not only on the many federal, state and local laws and regulations that govern the workplace, but on each employer’s business and operational objectives. Our complete approach includes preventative measures, training, and representation in formal proceedings before federal and state courts and administrative agencies.

Leasing

We have one of the preeminent retail tenant practices in the United States. Our lawyers have extensive experience in all kinds of leasing transactions, and we have the requisite knowledge to tailor transactions to the benefit of our client’s long-term goals.

M&A Advisory Services

Working together with our Corporate Department, our attorneys assist the firm’s clients in solving a myriad of executive compensation and benefits issues that arise in connection with our firm’s robust transactional practice.

Mergers & Acquisitions

Our Mergers & Acquisitions Practice brings together lawyers from our Corporate, Tax, Bankruptcy & Reorganization, Commercial Lending & Finance, Business Litigation, Compensation, Benefits & Employment, Real Estate and Intellectual Property Practices to strategically structure, negotiate and consummate complex business combinations. 

Partnership & Other Private Business Ownership Litigation

Our litigators have extensive experience navigating the unique issues that arise during disputes among holders of interests in partnerships, limited partnerships, corporations, LLCs, joint ventures, family-owned businesses and other forms of closely-held business ownership.

Real Estate

Our Real Estate Practice is one of New York’s most prominent real estate practices, representing clients in the leasing, purchase, sale, development and financing of commercial, industrial, development and residential properties.

Real Estate Acquisitions, Sales & Joint Ventures

Our Real Estate team represent a wide variety of clients in the acquisition and/or sale of single and multi-tenanted office buildings, shopping centers, hotels, industrial properties and residential buildings, including the negotiation of purchase and sale agreements.

Real Estate Finance

Our Real Estate lawyers have a considerable depth of experience representing owners and developers in financing transactions in New York and throughout the United States. Such transactions have involved multi-tenanted office buildings, shopping centers, industrial properties, hotels, single-tenant net leased properties and residential properties.

Real Estate Litigation

Our real estate litigators are seasoned real estate practitioners equipped to handle even the most complex disputes arising from real estate development or financing transactions.

Real Estate Loan Workouts, Restructurings & Foreclosures

Our Real Estate lawyers represent individual and institutional investors and fund managers in acquiring, restructuring and foreclosing real estate loans, and in selling and leasing acquired properties.

Retirement & Pension Plans

Tax-qualified retirement and pension plans present a minefield of complex tax and legal requirements for employers. Our attorneys are seasoned in navigating these issues, and provide clients with sophisticated legal advice on the design, operation and maintenance of a broad range of plans.

Securities & Capital Markets

Our Securities & Capital Markets Practice offers clients sophisticated securities law capabilities, wide and varied transactional exposure, market familiarity, a commercially sensitive approach to practice and the ability to execute under demanding schedules and circumstances.

Securities Litigation

Morrison Cohen handles a full range of securities matters, including complex, high-stakes securities litigations, in both federal and state trial and appellate courts, as well as before various arbitration and ADR forums, including FINRA and the AAA.

Strategic Case Review

Our Strategic Case Review Practice is led by The Honorable David B. Saxe (Ret.) who served on the bench for 35 years, the last 19 as an Associate Justice, New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Department before joining the firm. 

Tax

Our Tax Practice draws on a wealth of experience representing financial institutions, fund sponsors and strategic company clients of all sizes and across all major industries, in domestic and cross-border transactions, to provide creative, tax efficient solutions to complex tax problems and challenges.

Technology, Data & IP

Our Technology, Data & IP Practice helps you design long-term strategies for the protection of your intellectual property assets, maximize your technology infrastructure and comply with the myriad privacy and data security laws facing business today. Where necessary, we also develop and implement cost-efficient litigation strategies to best protect and enhance your business, now and in the future.

Valuation Disputes

Our Real Estate lawyers are leading practitioners in the highly specialized area of real estate valuation disputes, particularly “rent reset” arbitrations. 

Venture Capital & Private Equity Investments

Morrison Cohen’s leading practice representing venture capital and private equity firms in their investment activities leverages our deep experience in private investment fund formation, emerging company representation and complex transactional work.

White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement

Our White Collar and Regulatory Enforcement Practice represents corporate entities and individuals in investigations brought by a wide array of governmental agencies, as well as exchanges and self-regulatory organizations.

Sectors

Artificial Intelligence

We guide clients – from public and private companies using AI to those investing in technology – through the myriad legal, compliance and regulatory issues associated with generative AI applications.

Digital Assets

Our Digital Assets Group represents some of the largest and most significant names in the sector, drawing upon our depth of experience and comprehensive understanding of cryptocurrency, DeFi, DAOs and NFTs. 

Financial Services & Fintech

Our multidisciplinary Financial Services & Fintech team approaches every matter as dealmakers, trusted advisors and problem solvers. 

Healthcare & Wellness

We understand the unique business, professional and legal needs of healthcare and wellness clients.

Hospitality

Our dedicated hospitality team takes a multidisciplinary approach to helping clients run, grow and protect their businesses and brands. 

Industrial & Manufacturing

Morrison Cohen provides a wide range of legal services designed to protect industrial and manufacturing companies, their strategic position, products, customers and brands.

Luxury Brands

We understand the challenges and opportunities facing the luxury goods market and work to build and protect our clients’ global brands. 

Nonprofit

Morrison Cohen has built a strong foundation of understanding the various business and political challenges facing nonprofits today.

Professional Services

Morrison Cohen has long represented professional services firms in accounting, management consulting, advisory and law to expand their businesses and improve operational efficiency.

Real Estate

We have built a strong foundation advising real estate owners and developers on the leasing, purchase, sale, development and financing of property in New York and throughout the United States.

Retail & Consumer Products

We advise retail and consumer products clients on their full business lifecycle – from establishing new entities to protecting the value and trade secrets of their products to advising on mergers, acquisitions and exit strategies.

Technology

Morrison Cohen represents some of the most established names in technology today along with many innovative technology drivers changing the landscape.