Herrick, Feinstein LLP

Executive Chair: Belinda G. Schwartz

Languages: Cantonese, French, German, Greek, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Japanese, Malayalam, Polish, Russian, Spanish, Turkish

Firm Overview:

Herrick is a dynamic law firm providing a full range of legal services to businesses and private clients around the world. From its offices in New York City, Newark, New Jersey and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Herrick maintains robust corporate, sports, litigation and commercial real estate capabilities, with significant depth in areas such as restructuring, employment, government relations, intellectual property, tax and private clients.

Main Areas of Practice:

Corporate

Employment

Environmental

Government Relations

Insurance & Reinsurance

Intellectual Property

International Practices: Israel, Nordics, MENA Region

Land Use and Zoning

Litigation

Private Clients

Real Estate

Restructuring & Bankruptcy

Sports

Tax

Real Estate:

Herrick maintains one of New York City’s largest and most accomplished commercial real estate law practices. The firm represents sophisticated owners, developers, governmental entities, not-for-profits, lenders, investors and other stakeholders in a diverse range of activities across the US, including acquisitions and dispositions, financings, development and construction, leasing, tax and litigation. The firm’s real estate department features a dynamic group of more than 65 attorneys engaged in all areas of real estate law, including specialized areas such as land use, leasing, construction and condominium matters. Its litigation, environmental, finance and tax attorneys complement these practices by providing practical advice in their respective disciplines.

Litigation:

Herrick’s litigation department is a full-service practice comprised of a talented group of attorneys with broad based, extensive experience in all phases of litigation and dispute resolution in state and federal courts, as well as arbitration forums. The firm’s areas of practice include: complex commercial, employment, intellectual property, product liability, real estate, construction, title insurance, securities litigation, and white-collar defense.

Corporate:

Herrick represents public and private companies, REITs, financial institutions, private investment funds, individual investors and other corporate stakeholders in a wide range of transactions, as well as related corporate governance, regulatory and operational concerns. The firm is at the forefront of numerous innovative and complex matters advising on public and private offerings of equity and debt; private equity transactions; fund formation; mergers, acquisitions and divestitures; joint ventures; asset-based finance; commercial and institutional lending; franchising, licensing and distribution; investment management; restructurings and business divorces.

Sports Law:

Herrick is known as the go-to firm for innovative and sophisticated deals, for responsive practitioners with meaningful knowledge of the industry and players and for representing the most legendary franchises in sports. Herrick has brought countless novel and transformative concepts to life – including regional sports broadcasting, pay-per-view and premium stadium experiences. Herrick’s work spans league and team formation and operation, arena and stadium financing and development, naming rights, sponsorships, media rights transactions, joint ventures, team acquisitions dispositions and investments, memorabilia sales and a range of ancillary concerns. The firm provides pragmatic counselling on the daily operations of sports businesses – player and personnel issues, credit facilities, concession agreements, advertising and vendor contracts, and off-season stadium and arena events.

Restructuring & Finance Litigation:

Herrick’s Restructuring & Finance litigation has decades of experience advising clients in all phases of complex litigations and restructurings. Our clients include private and public companies, private equity funds and hedge funds, official and ad hoc creditor committees, debtors and distressed investors, bondholders and noteholders, mortgage lenders, real estate developers, financial institutions, corporate debtors, trustees, independent directors, special investigation committees, and foreign representatives. In addition to serving as primary counsel in a variety of finance litigation and core bankruptcy matters, we frequently work side-by-side with some of the world’s largest law firms, serving as conflicts or special trial counsel.

Employment:

Herrick represents employers and executives in nearly every aspect of employment law, from risk management and executive compensation, to complex employment litigation, arbitration and mediation. On the preventative side, we provide employers with valuable insights at every turn, helping them navigate day-to-day personnel issues, update their employment practices, and develop policies, handbooks and training programs that improve employer-employee relations and comply with state and federal law. When litigation is unavoidable, we know how to try cases, and we know how to win. We have significant experience defending employers and key employees against the full range of federal and state employment claims.

Tax:

Herrick’s tax lawyers provide pragmatic advice for sophisticated tax issues in corporate, financial, real estate and art transactions. Herrick’s tax clients include major real estate developers, world-renowned sports teams, banks, insurance companies, investment funds, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals.

Private Clients:

Herrick's Private Clients attorneys provide legal counsel and related services to high-net-worth individuals, multi-generational family estates and trusts, corporate fiduciaries and non-profit organizations. Herrick attorneys handle the legal and contractual dimensions of key life events from creating and refining vehicles for wealth transfer, to administering wills and trusts and resolving intra-family disputes. Lawyers in the firm’s Private Clients department support clients in a broad range of areas, including: estate and gift planning, probate and trust litigation, business valuation and succession planning, trust and estate administration, disputed tax and valuation issues, not-for-profits organizations, disability planning, tax advice for non-U.S. citizens and pre-immigration planning.

Government Relations:

Herrick’s government relations group provides strategic political insights. Group members include former elected and appointed public officials who assist with government lobbying, ethics compliance, administrative law, government contracting and procurement, land use and zoning, government investigations, and international government and agent representation.

International:

International corporations, funds, entrepreneurs and investors put their trust in Herrick, because we view their world from every angle - from legal and operational concerns, to cultural and practical ones. We have an unrivaled understanding of the New York market, one of the international capitals of the world, yet we frequently deal with high-stakes matters around the globe. For over 90 years, we have deftly advised international clients on a diverse range of complex legal concerns, allowing them to succeed on the world stage with ease.

The lawyers in Herrick’s Israel Practice deliver comprehensive legal services to Israeli clients who pursue investment and business opportunities in the U.S. Our practice draws upon the collective strength of our corporate, tax, real estate, government relations and litigation lawyers, who use their extensive experience to guide clients through the complex legal issues and transaction structures inherent in cross-border investments. Herrick’s Israel Practice is an integral part of our broader international experience.

Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland are some of the most competitive economies in the world, and so enterprises from these countries are quite active in the U.S. market. Our legal team provides counsel on a broad spectrum of the law relevant to Nordic interests with respect to their activities and investments in the U.S., including real estate, REITS, cross-border and local tax, mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, litigation, intellectual property, employment and insurance coverage. Herrick’s Nordic Practice is a growing part of our broader international experience.

Herrick's MENA Region Practice Group is built on strong enduring relationship within the region. Our successes in pioneering lawsuits brought on behalf of the people of Türkiyeto recover its looted cultural treasures provided us with the opportunity to work closely with government ministries, agencies and officials. Because of our longstanding ties with the region, and the strength of our nationally- recognized real estate department, in 2012, Herrick was selected to represent all aspects of the development of a new Turkish Center near the United Nations headquarters in New York - the largest Ministry of Foreign Affairs project outside of Türkiye.