Fox Swibel Levin & Carroll LLP

Managing Partner: Martin B. Carroll

Number of Partners: 36

Number of Lawyers: 46

Languages: English, Polish, Spanish

Fox Swibel Levin & Carroll LLP

Firm Overview: For more than two decades Fox Swibel Levin & Carroll has been effectively developing and implementing strategies to achieve optimal results for their national and international clients in virtually all types of commercial transactions and litigation matters. The firm has gained a reputation for providing “big-law” quality work in a streamlined boutique firm setting, resulting in the firm’s dramatic growth and increased demand for client services.

Founded on an entrepreneurial culture, the firm attracts highly qualified and talented lawyers who were educated at the nation’s best law schools and came from the most highly respected large firms and specialty boutiques. The firm’s winning recruitment and retention strategy provides its lawyers with the tools to continue performing at a high level, while having the opportunity to grow their own respective practices. In furtherance of this promise, the firm’s lawyers are able to set their own rates, often reducing them by as much as half when compared to the firms from which they matriculated.

The firm’s lawyers share in common sophisticated and diverse legal backgrounds, as well as a shared mission and fervent belief that the firm’s model is a better way to provide top end legal services. Consistent with this approach, the firm is continuously adapting its services to meet its clients’ needs—who range from entrepreneurs to global institutions—at every point of their business cycles and as the financial and economic circumstances of their industries require.

In short, Fox Swibel is different. And its clients are the true beneficiaries of what the firm sets out to do.

Principal Practice Areas:

The Firm’s principal practice areas relate to commercial transactions and litigation, including:

Banking and Corporate Finance

The firm represents clients in all facets of virtually every type of secured and unsecured credit transaction and has specific expertise in permanent and construction financing, revolving lines of credit, conduit lending, government loan programs and syndications. In addition to direct representation of large, U.S. national banks, regional and local banks, the firm represents corporate and real estate clients in connection with their financing activities.

Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights

The firm represents creditors and Chapter 7 and 11 trustees in all types of matters, including complex bankruptcy litigation, preference litigation, appellate work, claim disputes and other complex bankruptcy issues.

Construction Law

The firm represents design and construction industry clients in all aspects of construction law in all phases of projects, from inception through completion, throughout the United States. The firm construction lawyers handle litigation and transactional matters involving various types of project delivery methods in the building, infrastructure, industrial, medical, hospitality and transportation industries. They have significant experience investigating technically complex claims and resolving disputes through settlement to avoid litigation, but when necessary they are unrelenting and cost-effective trial lawyers.

Corporate and Securities

The firm advises clients in all areas of business structuring and formation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital financing, securities offerings and compliance, and also provides comprehensive legal services to unregistered and federal and state registered investment advisers. The firm counsels clients in connection with joint ventures, technology licensing, franchise law, domestic and foreign distribution, structured finance, project finance and complex contracting matters.

Employment Law

The firm represents, counsels and advises clients in all legal matters affecting the employment relationship. Its lawyers successfully prosecute and defend discrimination claims, non‐compete and non-solicitation cases, and trade secret disputes, and represent companies and executives in negotiating and documenting employment contracts, severance agreements, and non-solicitation and non-compete agreements.

Intellectual Property

The firm’s intellectual property lawyers, comprised of both corporate and litigation attorneys, advise and represent clients in the full spectrum of their intellectual property needs, from copyrights, patents, and trademarks, to advertising and marketing, rights of publicity, due diligence, and trade dress.

Litigation

The firm represents clients in all types of arbitration and litigation, including against some of the nation’s largest law firms, at all levels of courts locally and nationwide. The firm’s litigators work collaboratively with their clients to develop winning defense strategies, negotiate favorable settlements, and try cases to verdict in all types of matters, including real estate, employment, insurance coverage, class actions, tax disputes, contract disputes, fraud, asset recovery, white collar investigations, construction disputes and bankruptcy.

Real Estate

The firm’s real estate and transactional lawyers advise and represent clients in all types of domestic and international transactions, including real estate, construction and development projects, as well as assist clients with acquisition financing. They are recognized for their extensive experience in commercial real estate transactions and as leaders in the industry.

Tax

The firm’s tax lawyers provide domestic and international income tax planning for businesses and individuals, represent businesses and individuals in audits and other litigation, and advise on the structuring of business entities, ventures and transactions.