New York Corporate and Transactional Lawyers

Corporate and Transactional Law

730 Main St, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, USA

Anthony D. Parone is an attorney associated with Niagara Falls, New York, whose career has included corporate and real estate law. His private practice dates to 1968; before that, he worked both inside corporations and at law firms. Two Niagara Falls positions appear at the start of that history in 1961: general counsel to Conbow Corporation and lawyer with Gellman and Gellman. Parone identifies Jack E. Gellman, his first employer, as an influence on his professional skills. A move to Los Angeles brought an assistant general counsel position at National General Corporation in 1965–1966. Back in western New York, he joined Saperston, Wiltse, Duke, Day & Wilson in Buffalo as an associate, serving from 1966 to 1968 before opening his own practice. His academic training included taxation. After receiving a Bachelor of Arts in 1957 and a Bachelor of Law in 1960 from the University of Buffalo, he earned a Master of Law in Taxation at New York University in 1961. His professional biography also lists a Buffalo Doctor of Jurisprudence dated 1968. Outside his legal employment, Parone became a trustee of Stella Niagara Education Park in 1978. The State Bar of California records his admission on January 5, 1966, and lists his address as 730 Main St in Niagara Falls. His California license is listed as inactive.

Corporate and Transactional Law

1095 6th Ave, Dechert LLP, New York, NY 10036

Blake Gilson is an associate in the New York office of Milbank and a member of the firm’s Transportation and Space Group. EDUCATION: Fordham University School of Law, J.D., Columbia University, B.A. ADMISSIONS: New York EXPERIENCE: Transportation and Space, Space and Satellite.

Corporate and Transactional Law

707 Westchester Avenue, Suite 409, White Plains, NY 06902

Dara L. Rosenbaum is one of the founding partners of Rosenbaum & Taylor, P.C. Dara represents both individuals and businesses on a variety of legal issues, including contract negotiation and drafting, business disputes, personal injury, wrongful death, Labor Law, products liability, mechanic’s liens, property damage and insurance. She counsels and advises individuals and businesses on transactional matters and represents them in lawsuits, whether they need to sue, or are being sued. Dara handles all aspects of civil litigation from investigation to trial to appeal, including drafting pleadings, conducting discovery, taking and defending depositions and drafting and arguing motions and appeals. Whether she is handling complex litigation or a more straight forward business deal, Dara focuses on meeting her clients’ needs and works efficiently to achieve the results they desire.

Corporate and Transactional Law

670 Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach, NY 11561

Area of Practice: Merchant Cash Advance Debt Settlement & Defense Litigation Founding and Managing Principal, Attorney Grant Phillips, is admitted and licensed to practice law in the States of New York, New Jersey and Florida. He was born and raised in Johannesburg, South Africa. He attended college in the United Kingdom and Law School in New York. He opened Grant Phillips Law, PLLC – 17 years ago. In the past, he has worked for some of the largest and most prestigious law firms in New York City, as well as In House for two publicly traded companies. Grant is well known for his articles on debt, bankruptcy and debt relief and has been published on multiple occasions. Grant still makes a point of meeting with every new client and is regarded as a champion of care and compassion, especially towards clients facing debt. This can be seen in the manner in which he conducts a consultation. He does not time or limit the consultation and reviews every case and client on their own merits seeking every possible solution. Mr. Phillips has three sons and if he is not at the office or in court, he can be found playing with his boys. Mr. Phillips is on the Board of Directors of several organizations and provides pro bono services regularly. Phillips is an avid reader and writer and in his spare time has written a novel.

Corporate and Transactional Law

129 Front Street, Mineola, NY 11501

Irene Tenedios graduated from St. John’s University with a B.A. in Psychology and earned her Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Tenedios was in-house counsel for an insurance company, where her responsibilities included researching a myriad of insurance coverage issues and drafting dispositive motions in employment discrimination and general litigation actions. Since joining Levitt LLP in 2004, Ms. Tenedios has counseled and represented a wide variety of clients at all stages of the litigation process in both state and federal court. Ms. Tenedios focuses her practice on complex business and commercial litigation, including the defense and prosecution of claims for breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, business torts and unfair business practices. Ms. Tenedios’ areas of practice also include commercial and residential landlord/tenant disputes. Ms. Tenedios is also well-versed in drafting and negotiating various business agreements, including asset purchase agreements, shareholder agreements, employment agreements, non-disclosure agreements and non-competition agreements.

Corporate and Transactional Law

250 West 39th Street, 9th floor, New york, NY 10018

Jack Waldman is Executive Vice President and General Counsel for SwimUSA, a leading specialty apparel company focusing on the global swimwear market. At SwimUSA, Jack oversees the company’s legal affairs, including corporate governance, litigation, IP-portfolio management, labor and employment law and regulatory compliance. Jack sits on the company’s Executive Committee as well as its Board of Directors, and regularly counsels and advises the company’s executive team on strategic matters including mergers and acquisitions, real estate, and financing/capital markets. Before joining SwimUSA in 2012, Jack was a litigation associate with New York law firm Oved & Oved LLP. Jack joined Oved & Oved LLP in 2009 as a summer associate where his practice focused on commercial litigation in both state and federal court. While at Oved, Jack assisted with and second-chaired many trials and gained extensive experience representing clients in and out of court.

Corporate and Transactional Law

1221 Avenue of the Americas, 45.S126, New York, NY 10020

Jonathan Michels is a partner at White & Case, and a member of the Firm's Capital Markets practice group. Based in New York, Jonathan's practice primarily focuses on public and private capital markets transactions, including high-yield and investment grade debt offerings, exchange offers, tender offers, consents solicitations and other liability management transactions, bridge and other acquisition ?nancing commitments and other capital markets transactions representing issuers, sponsors and investment banks in a wide variety of industries in the United States, Latin America and elsewhere abroad. Jonathan has a proven ability to manage complex, multijurisdictional transactions and works seamlessly alongside teams of the Firm's lawyers from around the world. Jonathan's experience and extensive knowledge of debt capital markets also allow him to quickly adapt to evolving and challenging market dynamics, and clients often look to Jonathan to find innovative and creative solutions to client and investor concerns. Jonathan has continued to be at the forefront of the high yield, special situations and liability management market, particularly in the face of the global economic challenges that sponsors, issuers, investment banks and hedge funds navigate in a volatile market landscape, including as a result of various economic and industry-specific factors. Clients also seek Jonathan's advice to tap into his deep knowledge of acquisition financing structures, navigating multiple stages of a complex acquisition transaction and required expertise across the entire life cycle of a high-yield committed acquisition financing structure, from financing commitment, to funding of a bridge loan, to successful execution of a take-out bond financing. Jonathan is ranked in Chambers and Legal 500 where clients say "Jonathan is exceptional, he produces outstanding work and is very client- oriented." "He is very constructive, knowledgeable, and demonstrates a commanding knowledge of the law." "Jonathan has a superb understanding of the legal issues, while remaining acutely aware of the commercial implications." "Jonathan Michels is the best in the business. He is an expert who lives the transaction with you. He is a problem solver and is very practical. He is a pleasure to work with every step of the way." "It is amazing the way partners like Jonathan Michels help to think like our team from a business sense, but guide us through the law to achieve our clients' goals." "Jonathan Michels has been exceptionally great in being available at all times to handle matters or answer questions with a smile". "I wouldn't hesitate to take any matter to Jonathan. He is all about getting the best deal, works tirelessly and can crank things out." "An exceptional attorney." "He's a great partner, a great team member to work with and very knowledgeable." "Jonathan Michels is an excellent partner. He has amazing connectivity and insight not only in legal but industry matters. He's consistently available but most importantly, brings a business sense that allows him to be a true partner." "He is the full package: he is a one-stop shop for capital markets and he is good at solving problems."

Corporate and Transactional Law

1460 Broadway suite 1460, New York, NY 10036, USA

Corporate and Transactional Law

505 Park Ave, New York, NY 10022, USA

Marshall Sonenshine is Chairman and Managing Partner of New York investment banking firm Sonenshine Partners. Mr. Sonenshine was previously Partner in Wolfensohn & Company, the M&A boutique headed by former Salomon Brothers’ head of banking Jim Wolfensohn and US Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker. Mr. Sonenshine was part of the leadership team that merged Wolfensohn first into Bankers Trust, where he headed Media M & A and Aerospace/Transportation M & A, and later into Deutsche Bank, where Mr. Sonenshine was asked to serve as Global Co-Head of M & A. Mr. Sonenshine began his finance career at Salomon Brothers in New York. Since 2016, Mr Sonenshine has served on the adjunct faculty at Harvard Law School teaching Mergers and Advanced Corporate Transactions. From 2009-15 Mr Sonenshine was Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia University Business School teaching Private Equity and Turnaround Management. Mr Sonenshine has been a global finance commentator on CNBC and Bloomberg and has published widely in the New York Times, Financial Times, Institutional Investor, Merrill Datasite, Harvard Law and Business Schools and Columbia Business School. Mr. Sonenshine holds a BA, magna cum laude, from Brown University and a JD from Harvard Law School, where he served as Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He studied at L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris and, while at law school, he served as a Teaching Fellow in International Relations at Harvard University’s Government Department, and an Instructor in Legal Methods and in the International Tax Program at the Law School. Following Harvard he became law clerk to Hon. Lawrence Pierce of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, where he worked on major corporate, securities and M&A federal cases. Mr. Sonenshine counsels numerous leading companies globally including in the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, China, Japan and Australia, and has advised on numerous major transactions worldwide, including the Disney/ABC merger, the merger of International Lease Finance Corporation into America International Group, the global restructuring of GPA Group plc with General Electric, the restructuring of Daimler Benz’s AEG industrial group, the Sony/Columbia Pictures and Guber Peters Entertainment merger, the sale of GE affiliated Genesis Lease to AerCap, the sale of Structural Dynamics to EDS and Simulia to Dassault Systemes, the proxy battle and hostile defense of The United States Shoe Corporation, the mergers of Chancellor Media, Capstar and Clear Channel, the sale of Simulia to Dassault Systèmes, the recapitalization of KKR-and-Wachovia backed New South Communications (later Nuvox), the representation of Alcoa in several global divestitures, the restructurings and sales in Chapter 11 of Riverstone Networks to Alcatel, of Hear USA to Siemens, and of the Philadelphia Inquirer and News to an Investor Group. In Asia Mr Sonenshine and Sonenshine Partners has represented numerous companies including two of China’s leading publicly traded manufacturers (Nine Dragons and Sirio Pharma) in their first North American acquisitions. Earlier, Mr Sonenshine was Senior Investment Banker in Fuji Wolfensohn, representing major Japanese companies in cross border Mergers. Mr Sonenshine is Trustee of Hunter College where he has served on the Executive Committee as Chairman of Endowment. He has also served as Chairman of the Harvard Law School Fund and as Co-Chair of the Center for Law Brain and Behavior at Harvard and Mass General. He has also served as Trustee, Executive Committee Member and Chairman of Development for Jazz at Lincoln Center and the International Center of Photography, as Member of the Brown University Annual Fund Executive Committee, and as Vice Chairman of ArtsConnection. He is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and has served as member of the Corporate Boards of the Institute for New Economic Thinking and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and as Member of the Democratic National Committee New York Tri State Finance Committee. Mr Sonenshine has also served as Chairman of RosettaBooks and as Executive Producer to three leading political and legal documentary films on HBO, including Loving Story, for which he holds Emmy and Peabody awards.

Corporate and Transactional Law

334 Deer Park Ave, Babylon, NY 11702, USA

Corporate and Transactional Law

201 W 85th St, 16D, New York, NY 10024

"Michael A. Vacchiano is associate general counsel at Balyasny Asset Management L.P. in New York. He took that position in January 2026, after an associate role at Skadden that began in April 2024. Skadden also appears earlier in his career: he was a summer associate in its New York office from May to July 2017 and an associate there from September 2018 to March 2021. Between those two appointments, he earned his J.D. at the University of Virginia School of Law in 2018. His undergraduate degree is in finance, from Florida State University, where he graduated in 2014. During law school, his summer work included a June–August 2016 legal internship with the Knox County District Attorney in Knoxville, Tennessee. His work in Florida included both corporate legal departments and a law firm. At North Florida Surgeons in Jacksonville, he held the corporate counsel position from April 2021 to August 2022. An associate appointment at McGuireWoods in the same city followed, ending in July 2023. From September 2023 through March 2024, he was based in Jupiter as senior corporate counsel for SEC and compliance at Neptune Wellness. Admitted to the Florida Bar on September 29, 2021, he is registered under his full name, Michael Anthony Vacchiano. The bar directory identifies Balyasny as his employer, categorizes his position as corporate counsel, and lists him as a member in good standing who is eligible to practice in Florida."

Corporate and Transactional Law

787 7th Ave, NY, NY 02109

Neil W. Townsend is a New York partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP whose practice focuses on private equity transactions. He co-chairs the firm’s Private Equity Practice Group and belongs to its Corporate & Financial Services Department. Leveraged buyouts are one part of his transactional work. For financial sponsors, Townsend advises on how those deals are structured, negotiated, financed and implemented, as well as on their restructuring. His experience is not confined to representing purchasers: he has also represented sellers, investors, lenders, executives and principals. Other assignments involve acquisitions and mergers of public and private companies, along with securities transactions. His client base includes mezzanine and private equity investment funds, venture capital funds and banks. Corporate clients work in industries that include healthcare, technology, consumer products and energy services. Willkie’s account of his matters includes high-yield note offerings for Speedy Cash and Iracore International, and equity offerings and acquisitions for Wave Systems. Townsend also works with companies raising capital or undertaking restructurings. Boards and investors in distressed businesses seek his advice on sales, restructurings and interested-party transactions. His practice includes advising on equity-based executive compensation arrangements and private investments, including PIPE transactions. Before Willkie, Townsend co-led the private equity group at Bingham McCutchen as a partner. His education includes a bachelor of science from Tufts University, awarded in 1987, and a law degree from Villanova University, awarded in 1990.

Corporate and Transactional Law

225 E 39th St, New York, NY 10016, USA

I am passionate about the law and interpreting it for the benefit of my clients in real life situations. Excellence and integrity in practice are the foundation of my ethics, whether I am providing high-level counsel to international companies, or legal support to business operational teams at a granular level. As the founder of Wakhariya & Wakhariya, a full-service international law firm, I lead a team of skilled attorneys in providing critical, strategic and practical advice to clients, specifically in the United States, United Kingdom, Europe, India, and East Africa. As a senior attorney, I act as outside general counsel to my clients, and have the ability to take a holistic view, while offering legal advice across multiple businesses on commercial, legal, compliance, and regulatory issues. I have a unique combination of education, knowledge, and professional qualifications and memberships, which make me a highly sought-after cross-border transaction specialist.

Corporate and Transactional Law

300 Old Country Rd, Mineola, NY 11501, USA

Business Debt Settlement

Corporate and Transactional Law

26 Broadway, #1900, New York, NY 10004

Area of Practice: Commercial Litigation Jeffrey M. Eilender is the co-managing partner of the firm and co-chair of the civil litigation group. His commercial litigation practice focuses on intra-corporate disputes and business separations, often when the future of the company or an owner’s net assets are at risk. These cases are usually hotly contested and, unfortunately, often involve adult siblings or heirs warring with each other over family businesses when the founder is no longer on the scene. Jeff has represented all of the players in a business divorce; the companies, majority owners, and dissenting or oppressed minority owners. He has also prosecuted and defended derivative actions. Many of his business divorce matters have resulted in groundbreaking court rulings that are often cited by other courts and are the subject of articles and blogs by other lawyers. Jeff also frequently writes and speaks on these issues. Moreover, the scope of Jeff’s practice extends beyond intra-corporate disputes. With nearly 30 years of litigation experience, Jeff helps clients resolve virtually any kind of business conflict. He litigates all manner of real estate, contract, intellectual property, trade secrets, employment, fraud, and other business tort cases. Jeff represents large public entities, family businesses, and high net-worth individuals and celebrities such as AXA, Verizon, Oath (formerly AOL), ALP, Inc. (the company founded by artist Peter Max that owns and commercializes all of his art), Judith Regan, Perez Hilton, the Chetrit real estate family, the Lighthouse Group, Albert Einstein Medical School, Canon, and Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. A master of procedure, Jeff is noted for devising innovative solutions that other lawyers often don’t think of, which is why clients turn to Jeff for their most significant business matters. Jeff regularly serves as lead counsel in trials and hearings in federal court, the commercial divisions of New York’s state courts, arbitral forums, and other venues around the nation, including in the Delaware Chancery Court. As Jonathan Etra, a Partner at Nelson Mullins describes him, “Jeff Eilender, is a litigation powerhouse unto himself.” Jeff has chaired the New York State Judiciary Committee for the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association. He also served on the Commercial Division (New York County) Advisory Committee, which advises the Bar Association’s Commercial Division on its practices. A frequent lecturer at the New York State Bar’s Commercial Litigation Academy and a panelist on commercial litigation issues, Jeff regularly edits and writes the firm’s New York Commercial Division Blog and has contributed to Bloomberg BNA’s 2017 Supplement to Litigating the Business Divorce.

Corporate and Transactional Law

125 Park Avenue, 25th Floor, New York, NY 10017

John J. Altorelli is the managing partner of Aequum in New York City, with a corporate practice covering acquisitions, private equity and financing transactions. The firm’s account of his work names both institutional investors and operating businesses: private equity and hedge funds, banks, public companies, emerging-growth businesses and entrepreneurs. Financial services and real estate are among the industries represented, alongside insurance, biosciences, software, energy and communications. Several of the matters in his biography concern the mortgage business. He represented Capmark Financial Group in the sale of its North American servicing and mortgage banking operations to a Berkshire Hathaway–Leucadia National Corporation joint venture. The stated consideration was approximately $1.3 billion, including servicing advances and warehouse loans. A separate Capmark transaction involved selling its affordable housing debt business to Citigroup for $1.2 billion in cash and assumed debt. The biography also records work on AEA Investors’ $250 million private placement in XM Satellite Radio Holdings. For Accredited Home Lenders, it lists a $230 million secured loan from Farallon Capital followed by a $300 million acquisition by Lone Star. Blackstone, KKR and Madison Dearborn appear elsewhere in his record of private equity representations. Altorelli received a B.S. from Southern Connecticut State University, awarded summa cum laude in 1991; his Cornell Law School J.D. followed in 1993. Aequum lists New York and Connecticut under his bar admissions.