Firm Overview

Lehman & Eilen LLP is a law firm which has, from its inception, concentrated its practice in the areas of broker-dealer, investment adviser and investment partnership organization and regulation, securities offerings (private and public), public company representation, venture capital financings, futures and derivatives, intellectual property, commercial transactions and related litigation, arbitration and mediation. Lehman & Eilen has developed a national reputation in its broker-dealer investment advisory and securities offering areas of practice, has earned an "AV" rating from Martindale Hubbell (the highest rating bestowed by them), and is currently listed in the Martindale Hubbell Bar Registry of Preeminent Lawyers. The Firm represents clients throughout the United States and abroad; more than half of the Firm's clients are located outside of the New York metropolitan area. Lehman & Eilen is one of the largest securities law firms in the greater New York metropolitan area. The Firm’s main office is located in Uniondale, Long Island, near the Nassau Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum.

The Firm’s clients include over 100 domestic and foreign broker-dealers, more than 50 registered investment advisers and investment (hedge fund) partnerships, numerous financial planners, commodity futures introducing brokers, advisors and traders, publicly held companies as well as dozens of closely-held corporations, limited partnerships and limited liability companies.

Lehman & Eilen's corporate finance, securities and business law group handles a broad range of business, mergers and acquisitions, and securities matters relating to all forms of business organizations. We assist our clients in structuring their companies and in negotiating transactions with third parties. This includes advice on the most efficient form of start-up business entity (corporation, limited liability company, partnership, etc.), as well as drafting agreements among the founders of the business, including shareholders, limited liability and partnership agreements. We provide a full range of services for issuers and underwriters from structuring transactions to consummation of initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, shelf offerings, debt financings, PIPEs, registered direct offerings, spin-offs, joint ventures, reverse mergers, APOs and other sophisticated mergers and acquisitions. Once public, we provide a full range of advice to our clients, including securities compliance work such as preparation of annual and quarterly reports. We also advise companies, compensation committees and executives in employment and compensation matters, including employment agreements, performance-based long term incentive awards and stock-based benefit plans.

Lehman & Eilen also serves as special bankruptcy counsel and special securities counsel to other law firms across the country.