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Chuck is Counsel to the Firm, practicing primarily in the Corporate and Securities Department. Upon graduation, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1972, Chuck joined a major New York City firm where he represented corporate clients and was responsible for over 20 securities offerings that raised over $1 billion. Thereafter, he spent 23 years as a partner at another Mineola, New York firm, leaving in March of 2005 to establish his own practice and to become counsel of the Firm.
Chuck’s transactional experience includes public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, secured and unsecured financings, industrial development bond financings, private syndications of real estate entities, entities formed to acquire sophisticated medical equipment, and debt or equity securities of corporations that are engaged in manufacturing, industry, technology or other ventures. Over many years, Chuck has developed recognized expertise in partnership law, structuring and preparing shareholders’ agreements of closely-held corporations and the formation and operation of limited liability companies. He has been involved in the formation of hundreds of such entities in the last few years. In addition, he is involved in health law issues and in the preparation of employment agreements. He also practices extensively in the area of third-party legal opinions and serves on the Firm’s opinion review committee.
In early 1991, Chuck was appointed a member of the Adjunct Faculty at the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, Touro College. He has taught Close Corporation and Partnership Planning (Fall 1991 and Spring 1992) Corporate Finance (Fall of 2004 and 2006) and Securities Regulation (Fall of 2005 and 2007) and Business Organizations II (a/k/a Corporations) (Spring of 2007 and 2009). | 