Bio

Lawrence Bernfeld is a partner of Graubard Miller and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Lawrence negotiates and closes business transactions, leads the firm's employment practice, and litigates complex corporate, commercial, intellectual property, securities, and real estate disputes. When representing clients in business matters, Lawrence draws on his litigation background to analyze risk and place clients in a secure position. His counseling experience, in turn, permits him to identify creative business solutions when clients face potential litigation. Lawrence's litigation experience encompasses mediation, arbitration, trials, and appeals. Subject areas have included business appraisals and dissolution, close corporations, class actions, complex contract and commercial matters, cooperative corporations and condominiums, defamation, directors and officers liability, employment, entertainment, intellectual property, internal corporate investigations, publishing, real estate, shareholder derivative actions, and securities and futures industry disputes. His mediation, trial, and appellate practice takes him into venues that include Federal and State courts, the EEOC, FINRA, JAMS, and the AAA. In his transactional work, Lawrence focuses on mergers and acquisitions, distressed assets, hedge funds, private equity, and venture capital. He counsels clients regarding business plan development, confidentiality and non-compete arrangements, distribution agreements, executive employment and stock option agreements, change of control, termination, and severance agreements, entertainment contracts, secured financing, information technology, and investment fund, intellectual property, licensing, partnership, and joint venture agreements.