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
"WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DEBT FORGIVENESS ISSUES POPPING UP ON A REGULAR BASIS":
March 01, 2010 -- Edward Mermelstein expects a lot of proposed legislation to address tax issues similar to those emerged in the Stuy-Town transaction in article by Sule Aygoren Carranza, GlobeSt.com

"WHILE 2010 IS GOING TO BE A WAIT-AND-SEE PERIOD, PRICES HAVE FALLEN SO MUCH SO QUICKLY THAT THE BOTTOM IS PERCEIVED AS BEING IN PLACE":
March 01, 2010 -- Edward Mermelstein comments on high net-worth clients showing renewed interest in 24-Hour Cities Like London and New York in Market Update by Iyna Bort Caruso, Sotheby's for WSJ

"THE HOUSING MARKET IS IN A RECOVERY MODE, WE ARE TOLD":
February 25, 2010 -- Interview with Edward Mermelstein by Judith West, Getting Your Money Worth.

"NEGATIVELY PERFORMING PROPERTIES PURCHASED BASED ON INACCURATE PROJECTIONS AT THE PEAK OF THE BUBBLE, WILL FACE TURNING BACK TO LENDERS, OR A SIMILAR FATE":
February 02, 2010 -- Edward Mermelstein considers returning of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village by Tishman Speyer Properties and BlackRock Realty back to its lenders, being the largest failure in CMBS history in article by Anuradha Kher, MHN Online

"THE RULING GIVES A LITTLE OF BREATHING ROOM TO BOTH PARTIES":
January 27, 2010 -- Edward Mermelstein is asked to comment on 45 days given to Silverstein and the Port Authority to come up with new WTC development deadlines in article by David M. Levitt, Bloomberg.com

Edward A. Mermelstein & Associates, P.C.

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

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