Lauterbach Garfinkel Damast & Hollander, LLP is a distinguished law firm with a longstanding reputation for reliability and efficiency, offering the quality of large-firm legal services combined with the responsiveness of a boutique practice. The firm specializes in corporate and business law, commercial litigation, real estate and banking, and trusts and estates, with a focus on delivering practical results and minimizing tax implications for clients.
The attorneys at the firm bring decades of knowledge and experience, providing individualized client attention and leveraging a network of affiliated professionals to address complex legal needs. Their approach is characterized by exhaustive research, careful listening, and regular client updates, ensuring that representation is both strategic and responsive to each client’s specific goals and bottom line.
Services Offered
- Corporate and Business: Business formation and organizational structuring with a focus on tax consequences; shareholder, membership, and partnership agreements; corporate buyouts; purchase and sale of corporate assets; mergers and acquisitions; business financing, lines of credit, and asset-based financing; general counsel services
- Commercial Litigation: Representation of businesses in commercial and civil disputes in New York State Courts, Federal Courts, arbitration panels, and mediation
- Real Estate and Banking: Representation of developers, owners, and investors in commercial real estate purchase, finance, development, and sale; lease agreement negotiation and drafting for commercial landlords and tenants; residential real estate purchase and sale for homeowners; representation of lenders in loan originations, restructuring, and acquisition of non-performing instruments; representation of borrowers in banking and financing transactions including mortgage loans, construction loans, mezzanine financing, and private equity capital
- Trusts and Estates: Estate planning and elder law with emphasis on asset retention, estate/capital gains tax planning, Medicaid eligibility, and business succession; utilization of trusts, gifting techniques, discounted installment sales, and inter-family agreements
- Estate Administration and Surrogate’s Court Proceedings: Representation of individual and institutional clients as executors, administrators, or trustees; preparation of Federal and New York State estate tax and fiduciary income tax returns; representation of estate beneficiaries and claimants in litigation including will contests, contested fiduciary accountings, asset discovery proceedings, kinship proceedings, spousal right of election proceedings, and will construction proceedings
The firm serves clients throughout New York, with offices in Rockland and Brooklyn, and is equipped to handle matters in both state and federal courts, as well as through arbitration and mediation.
