Our Services/Practice Area

Financial Institutions and Real Estate

The Firm venture capital funds and private equity funds on a wide variety of matters. The Firm provides representation with respect to federal and state regulatory issues, real estate transactions (including acquisition, development, construction and permanent financing, as well as restructuring and foreclosures). The Firm prides itself on the two-way nature of many of its client relationships, particularly the Firm’s concerted efforts to direct business opportunities to its clients.

International Transactions

Many of the Firm’s clients are foreign entities seeking to do business in the United States or American entities seeking to do business abroad. The Firm’s attorneys assist these clients with the design and execution of high-profile business transactions and with international project and corporate financing and financial restructurings.

Business Litigation

The Firm’s skilled trial lawyers provide clients with significant depth of experience in litigating sophisticated, complex, and high-profile business disputes. Firm attorneys have successfully litigated matters in a wide range of industries, including real estate, corporate, and medical. Our attorneys have represented clients in a broad range of national and international forums, as well as in federal and state courts and arbitral tribunals.

Complex Dispute Resolution

The Complex Dispute Resolution Practice focuses on resolving disputes through a combination of approaches, including litigation, negotiation, legislation, mediation, and arbitration – often in the context of complex, multiparty disputes. The Firm continuously explores cutting-edge initiatives, settlements, legislation, and other strategies to resolve significant and often company-threatening potential liabilities. The Firm has substantial and successful experience in resolving disputes concerning insurance coverage, bankruptcy, employment, and product liability issues.

Insurance Coverage

Edward A. Mermelstein & Associates, PC assists large and small policyholders in enforcing coverage under their liability and other insurance policies. The Firm has had extraordinary success in protecting corporate policyholders’ rights in virtually all areas, including patent infringement liability, liability for sexual discrimination or harassment, and directors and officers’ liability.

Recent News
"PARTS OF THE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE MARKET ARE BEGINNING TO SEE GROWTH":
August 23, 2010 -- Interview with Edward Mermelstein at FOX Business

"WE SEE MIDDLE CLASS WEALTHIEST FAMILIES FROM EMERGING COUNTRIES BUYING APARTMENTS VALUED BETWEEN $2 AND $5 MILLION":
August 17, 2010 -- Edward Mermelstein comments on several hundred percent increase in New York residential transactions involving wealthy citizens from BRIC in article by Nicolas Madelaine, Les Echos

"THE U.S. REAL ESTATE MARKET IS THE ENVY OF MOST NATIONS, AND NEW YORK CITY IS A SAFE, LONG-TERM BET FOR MANY FOREIGN INVESTORS":
August 16, 2010 -- Edward Mermelstein discusses largest international metropolitan markets attracting significant institutional capital in his article for Hamptons.com

"AMERICA SEEMS FURTHER ON THE ROAD TO ECONOMIC RECOVERY, THOUGH":
August 05, 2010 -- Edward Mermelstein comments on London prime residences being currently at least 50% dearer than ones in Manhattan in article by The Economist

"THE OWNER IS LIKELY TO SELL NOTES OR REPOSITION THE BUILDING AND LOOKING TO LEASE UP AS MUCH AS IT CAN":
July 21, 2010 -- Edward Mermelstein ñonsiders $49 psqf Madoff's space in Lipstick would have been upwards $80 just a few years ago in article by Lauren Elkies and Adam Pincus, The Real Deal

Edward A. Mermelstein & Associates, P.C.

302 Fifth Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, New York 10001

Tel (212) 213-3818
Fax (212) 213-3747