• Negotiated and closed the sale of a first tier manufacturer/supplier to the automotive industry and developed and implemented the strategy for all aspects of the transaction including negotiations with County and State, creditors, ERISA compliance issues, ESOP participant issues, environmental issues, and all aspects of purchase agreement;
• Negotiated and closed the sale of a regional real estate brokerage firm including negotiations with franchisor, former owner, and buyer, sale of ancillary real estate and mortgage banking enterprises;
• Acted as lead acquisitions and mergers attorney in the sale of a real-time performance management company with offices in the United States and France to a public company in a cash out merger transaction;
• Negotiated and closed the buy-out of a group of family held real estate enterprises ventures;
• Negotiated work out and sale of a financially troubled regional internet service provider in northern New York State;
• Represented a mortgage broker in all aspects of its merger with a mortgage banker, including the negotiation of the merger agreement, operating agreement, and regulatory approvals;
• Represented and negotiated the sale of a food products manufacturer to an industry leader, including all aspects of the asset purchase agreement, real estate lease, employment and consulting agreement, tax, environmental, and intellectual property issues;
• Designed and implemented a like-kind exchange transaction that involved numerous radio station properties;
• Completed the successful tax free split-up of two family-owned businesses and associated real estate;
• Negotiated the settlement of a multimillion dollar claim by the United States Department of Labor against the administrators and fiduciaries of a Multiple Employer Welfare Association (MEWA).
• Counsel to Armory Square Venture Capital Fund

• Provided counsel to the Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce, Inc. (“Chamber”) and the Metropolitan Development Association of Syracuse and Central New York, Inc. (“MDA”). Advised the Strategic Partnership Committee formed by the MDA and the Chamber on legal issues relating to a potential combination or affiliation of the entities and their subsidiaries and affiliates. In the process, the firm conceived of the structure for the combination and affiliation of the governing structures of the 26 entities involved in economic development in the Central Upstate New York Region, which plan was successfully implemented. The firm prepared and presented a “MDA/Chamber Feasibility Study” which was submitted to the Strategic Partnership Committee and to the Boards of Directors of the both Chamber and the MDA.  The firm was subsequently employed by CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity with respect to certain discrete projects, including the implementation of the plan set forth in the MDA/Chamber Feasibility Study.
• Represented CenterState CEO in the establishment of a $25 million venture capital fund for the Central Upstate New York Region.
• Serve as special counsel and as general counsel to a number of businesses in industries as varied as trucking, the nationwide leader in municipal sewer root control products and services, worldwide events management, bulk and specialty dairy products processing, food bar manufacturing, assembly and fabrication of pneumatic and hydraulic systems and sub-assemblies, and the local community college.

• Recipient of the 2019 Crouse Health Foundation Margot Northrup Award, which recognizes extraordinary service by board volunteers who emulate the vision and commitment of the late Margot Northrup, the Foundation’s first president.
• Honored by the Onondaga County Bar Association with the 2017 Distinguished Lawyer Award.
• Recipient of the 2016 Everson Medal presented by the Everson Museum of Art in honor of his service to the museum and many other local organizations, which have had a lasting impact on the greater Syracuse community
• Honored with the Catholic Charities 2016 President’s Award at their Annual House of Providence Dinner
• Recipient of the 2015 Syracuse City School District Educational Foundation Founder’s Award.
• President’s Award on behalf of firm from Greater Syracuse Chamber of Commerce and Metropolitan Development Association of Syracuse and CNY, Inc. for work on the feasibility study for the Chamber/MDA merger
• Congressman Dan Maffei’s Transition Team, Chair (2009)
• Mayor Stephanie Miner’s Economic Development Transition Team, Member
• Task Force for Government Modernization, County Executive Joanie Mahoney’s transition teamInternational Center of Syracuse Goodwill Ambassador Award
• Best Lawyers in America – 2013-2016
• Martindale -Hubbell AV Rated
• Onondaga County Bar Association, past member Board of Directors

• Dunbar Association, Inc. , Treasurer, Board of Directors
• Onondaga Citizens League, Board of Directors – Past President and former Chair of Study Committee on Strategic Government Consolidation (2005)
• Syracuse University Libraries Advisory Board, Member
• Volunteer Lawyers Project, Immediate Past Chair, Board of Directors
• Americanization League of Syracuse and Onondaga County, President
• Crouse Health Foundation, Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Trustees
• Trustee, Everson Museum of Art, (Past President and Board Chair, Chair of Turner Cezanne Exhibition Committee 2006-2010)
• Syracuse 20/20, Past Member, Board of Directors
• Consensus (Commission on Local Government Modernization), Former Commission Member
• Hiscock Legal Aid Society, Past President
• CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity, Member, Board of Directors
• Rosamond Gifford Foundation, Past Chair, Board of Trustees
• Syracuse City School District Education Foundation, Former Member of the Board of Directors; Past Chair and current member of Grants Committee
• Syracuse University College of Law, Former Adjunct Professor of Partnership Taxation
• Onondaga Citizens League,
• International Center of Syracuse, Past President
• Eastwood Youth Lacrosse Association, Co-Founder and Coach

Education

• J.D., Syracuse University College of Law, 1980
• B.A., Kenyon College, 1977

Admissions

• New York
• United States Tax Court
• United States District Court, Northern District of New York