Farrell Fritz, P.C.

Alon Kapen is a partner in the firm s Corporate Department, concentrating in general corporate practice with a particular emphasis in mergers and acquisitions and corporate securities transactions and regulation. Mr. Kapen, who began his career in 1987 as an associate with Willkie Farr & Gallagher, has represented public and private business entities and private investors in a wide range of corporate and commercial matters and transactions, including public offerings, private placements, securities regulation, corporate governance, acquisitions, dispositions, leveraged buyouts, going-private transactions, venture capital investments, hedge fund transactions, takeover preparedness, loan transactions, aircraft acquisitions, executive compensation and antitrust regulation, as well as general corporate matters. Mr. Kapen is currently on the Board of Governors and Chair of the Young Leadership Committee of The American Jewish Committee, member of Dean s Council of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at SUNY Stony Brook and Member of the Planning Committee for Long Island Technology Hall of Fame. Mr. Kapen received his Juris Doctor degree in 1987 from Cornell Law School, where he was an Editor of the Cornell Law Review, and his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in 1983 from Brandeis University. Mr. Kapen authored Duty to Cooperate Under Section 2 of the Sherman Act: Aspen Skiing s Slippery Slope, 72 Cornell Law Rev. 1047 (1987). Mr. Kapen is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Arthur Feldman is a partner in the Tax Certiorari Department of Farrell Fritz. Mr. Feldman handles all aspects of real property taxation on behalf of developers, and owners or tenants of commercial and residential property. Since 1986, Mr. Feldman has been involved in the trial, litigation or administrative disposition of real estate tax cases regarding properties as diverse as the largest commercial-industrial complex on Long Island, the Pennsylvania Railroad yards in New York City, a Manhasset bank branch, regional shopping malls and a Merrick residence renovated to accommodate a disabled child. Mr. Feldman is a past Chair and Vice Chair of the Nassau County Bar Association's Tax Certiorari and Condemnation Committee. He currently serves on the Executive Board of the Long Island Real Estate Group and as President of the Young Israel of New Hyde Park. Mr. Feldman is also a member of the Institute for Professionals in Taxation and the New York Tax Review Bar.

Domenique Camacho Moran would like to give back some of what Girl Scouting has given her. Serving as a Member-at-Large of the Board of Directors will allow her to do just that. Currently Ms. Moran is a partner at Farrell Fritz, P.C. where she heads up the Firm's labor and employment practice. She is a graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a 1993 graduate of the University of Notre Dame Law School. At Notre Dame she received the Kraft W. Eidman Award presented by the American College of Trial Lawyers for Excellence in Trial Advocacy and was the Lead Notes Editor of the Journal of College and University Law. Ms. Moran recently served as a committee member for the Long Island chapter of the National Association of Mothers' Centers in planning its Annual Long Island Work/Life Conference. Currently serving as a Daisy Leader, Ms. Moran and her husband, Bill, reside in Rockville Centre along with their daughter Emily, a Girl Scout Daisy, and her son Joseph.

Eric Penzer is a partner at Farrell Fritz concentrating in estate litigation. His practice includes probate contests, discovery proceedings, accountings, and commercial litigation related to estates. Prior to joining the Trusts and Estates Practice Group, Mr. Penzer?s concentration was commercial litigation. He has extensive experience in litigating restrictive covenants (including covenants not to compete and nonsolicitation agreements), brokerage commission disputes, corporate disputes, as well as intellectual property and related matters. He is a former intern to the Honorable Arthur D. Spatt, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York. Mr. Penzer is a frequent author of articles on litigation practice. He is a member of the Trusts and Estates Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and a Vice Chairperson of its Committee on Legislation. Mr. Penzer is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association and its Surrogate's Court Estates & Trusts Committee and Commercial Litigation Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Coalition Against Child Abuse & Neglect, located in Garden City. In 2007, Mr. Penzer was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Long Island Elite. Mr. Penzer received his Juris Doctor in 1996 from Fordham University School of Law, where he was an Associate Editor of the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. In 1993, he received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Mr. Penzer is admitted to practice in New York, in the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

James Wicks is a partner at Farrell Fritz, concentrating in business and commercial litigation. Mr. Wicks represents large and small businesses, financial institutions and individuals in federal and state trial courts, as well as arbitrations, involving a variety of commercial, technology, real estate, insurance, contracts, banking issues, business torts and franchise litigation. Prior to joining Farrell Fritz, Mr. Wicks was an attorney with White & Case and later Dewey Ballantine. He served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Arthur D. Spatt, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Mr. Wicks is past-President of the Theodore Roosevelt American Inn of Court, an Executive Committee Member of the Alexander Hamilton Inns of Court, and is both Co-Chair of the Ethics and Professionalism Committee and a member of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association's Section on Commercial and Federal Litigation. He is a member of the Federal Bar Council's Central Islip United States Courthouse Committee, and a member of the Eastern District Committee on Civil Litigation. Mr. Wicks is a Life Fellow, New York Bar Foundation, a member of the American Bar Association, the Nassau County Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He is also a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the treatise, New York Civil Practice Before Trial (James Publ.), and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Long Island Museum of Art, History & Carriages. Mr. Wicks serves on the board of the Nassau Aviators Wheelchair Sports Association. He authors the monthly column for The Suffolk Lawyer entitled "Federal Practice Update." Mr. Wicks is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law. Mr. Wicks is admitted to practice in the courts of the State of New York, State of Connecticut, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Wicks, an Editor of the St. John's Law Review, received his Juris Doctor from St. John's University in 1989, and his Bachelor of Arts from Wheeling College in 1983.

John Barnosky is a Partner at Farrell Fritz and focuses in the area of trust and estate law. His practice includes estate planning, probate and administration of estates and trusts, elder law, estate litigation, and taxation. He provides estate planning and counseling advice to families, individuals, banks, foundations, and other institutions. Mr. Barnosky represents clients in litigated trust and estate matters, including will contests and disputes over the validity of trusts, before the Surrogate's Courts and other courts throughout New York State. Mr. Barnosky is a member of the New York State Bar Association's Task Force on Court Reorganization, as well as a member of the EPTL/SCPA Advisory Committee established by the New York State Legislature to review and modernize statutes relating to trusts and estates. Since 1985, Mr. Barnosky has been the editor of the North Fork Bank Estate Review. He has also written articles published in the New York Law Journal, The Nassau Lawyer, and the Journal of the Suffolk Academy of Law. An Adjunct Professor of Law at Touro Law School from 1990-1993, Mr. Barnosky is a frequent lecturer at New York State Bar Association seminars on Trust and Estate Practice. Mr. Barnosky is the past chair of the Estate and Trust Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association, as well as a current Director of the Association. He served as Chair of the 4500 member Estate and Trust Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and is also a member of the Taxation Section of the American Bar Association and a fellow of the American College of Trusts and Estates Counsel. Mr. Barnosky was named one of the Best Trusts & Estates Lawyers in America by American Lawyer in the November 2004 issue. Mr. Barnosky received his L.L.M in Taxation in 1974 from New York University School of Law, and his Juris Doctor in 1967 from St. John's University School of Law. He received his A.B. Degree from Assumption College in 1964. Mr. Barnosky is admitted to practice in the State of New York, the United States Supreme Court and the United States Tax Court.

John McEntee concentrates his practice in commercial litigation at the trial and appellate levels, representing corporations, financial institutions, partnerships and individuals in a broad variety of commercial and business disputes. Matters handled by Mr. McEntee include actions for breach of contract, fraud and misappropriation of trade secrets and proprietary information. He litigates royalty, shareholder and partnership disputes, enforces restrictive convenants and commercial loan agreements, and defends ERISA and employment discrimination claims. An experienced trial attorney, Mr. McEntee served as an Assistant District Attorney in Nassau County (District Court, County Court and Rackets Bureaus) and as an Assistant Deputy Attorney General with the New York State Organized Crime Task Force. For the years 2002 and 2001, Mr. McEntee was one of twenty-five attorneys selected by the Long Island Business News for its listing of Who s Who in Law on Long Island. Mr. McEntee is frequently called upon to lecture at continuing legal education seminars. In 1999 he chaired and lectured at two Nassau County Bar Association seminars, one on Internet Law and one on the legal effects of the Y2K computer problem. In 2000 he chaired and lectured at the Nassau County Bar Association s first seminar on electronic commerce. In 2001 he moderated two Nassau County Bar Association seminars, one on the new federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act and one on electronic filing of court papers and the electronic courtroom. In 2001 and 2002, he lectured at a seminar on commercial litigation jointly sponsored by the Suffolk County Bar Association and the West Publishing Company. In 2002, Mr. McEntee chaired a Nassau County Bar Association seminar on disaster recovery. Mr. McEntee earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Brockport College and his Juris Doctor degree from St. John s University School of Law. He is admitted to practice in New York, to the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, and to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. McEntee is a member of the New York State (Commercial and Federal Litigation Section) and Nassau County (Chair, Long Term Planning Committee) Bar Associations.

John Morken is a partner with Farrell Fritz concentrating in the area of trust and estate litigation in the Surrogate's courts and other trial and appellate courts throughout New York. His practice includes probate contests, discovery proceedings, accountings, and commercial litigation related to estates. In March 2001, Mr. Morken was elected to the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. A frequent lecturer on estate litigation topics, Mr. Morken has recently served as Chair of the Litigation Committee of the Trusts and Estates Section, the New York State Bar Association and is a member of the Section's Executive Committee. Before coming to Farrell Fritz, Mr. Morken served as Law Secretary to Justice David T. Gibbons of the Appellate Division, Second Department of the New York State Supreme Court. Mr. Morken is the co-author of ?Representing the Fiduciary: Ethical and Practical Considerations for the Estates Attorney? and ?Early Detection of Potential Conflicts in Ethical Obligations of Fiduciaries Can Prevent Later Problems?, New York State Bar Journal -- December, 2001 and January, 2002, "Steps Taken While Testator Is Alive Can Play A Key Role in Upholding Client's Estate Plan After Death", New York State Bar Journal, December, 1999; "The Dead Man's Statute - Still Alive in the Surrogate's Court" and "Disqualification of Counsel in the Surrogate's Court" appearing in the Trusts and Estates Law Section Newsletter of the New York State Bar Association, and "Survey of Estate Litigation", presented to the Association of the Bar of the City of New York at the March, 1999 Seminar Estate Litigation for Beginners and Non-Specialists. Mr. Morken was the Co-chair of the Trust and Estates Law Section Annual Meeting, January, 1999, in Program entitled "Settling Litigation in the Surrogate's Court". He chaired the Trust and Estates Law Section Annual Meeting, January, 1996, in Program entitled "Bearing the Draftsman's Burden: The Shifting Standards of Capacity", and Co-chaired the Trust and Estates Law Section Fall Meeting, 1989, "The Trial of a Will Contest". Mr. Morken is also a member of the Nassau County, Suffolk County and New York City Bar Associations. A graduate of the New York University School of Law, Mr. Morken received his Juris Doctor in 1977 and his Bachelor of Arts Degree with Honors in Mathematics and Philosophy from Swarthmore College in 1974. He is admitted to practice in the State of New York and in the Southern and Eastern Districts of the Federal Court, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the Tax Court.

Mr. Feldman is a partner in the Real Estate, Land Use, and Corporate & Banking Groups at Farrell Fritz. His practice concentrates on real estate development, joint ventures, real estate brokerage law, as well as real estate leasing. He represents clients that include publicly-traded companies and national tenants in development, joint ventures, leasing, financing and acquisition transactions involving several million square feet ranging from AAA office, to industrial, to various retail projects. Although owner representation has been the centerpiece of his practice, Mr. Feldman has been able to maintain a careful balance in the industry and remains a trusted adviser to real estate owners/developers as well as business owners, tenants and real estate professionals alike. A large part of this position is due to his involvement, as counsel to the Commercial Industrial Brokers Society ("CIBS"). CIBS is one of the largest commercial brokerage organizations on Long Island. As counsel to the organization since its inception, and through his representation of various landlords/developers and tenants, over the years Mr. Feldman has developed an excellent working relationship with every major brokerage house and substantially every active member of CIBS. While his involvement in the real estate industry on Long Island is an important factor in positioning Mr. Feldman as a leader in the commercial real estate field, it is bolstered by his core real estate practice which consists of real estate development, structuring and negotiating complex real estate transactions (including joint ventures, tiered financing, like kind exchanges and sale and lease backs). Mr. Feldman is a veteran of, and enjoys, an operational understanding of the Long Island political landscape. Coupled with his strong background in land use, this skill set affords him the ability to flag issues early in the process and work through those issues so that they are addressed during due diligence in the context of an acquisition, or during the leasing process in the context of commercial lease transactions. From concept to completion, Mr. Feldman cuts a path through complex legal issues and local hurdles to keep his client?s projects on course. He regularly handles land use matters for national companies as well as local developers in essentially every major town in the Counties of Nassau and Suffolk and many of the villages throughout Long Island. He is currently counsel to companies developing some of the most exciting and innovative projects on Long Island. Early in his career Mr. Feldman was Associate Counsel for the New York Job Development Authority (currently Empire State Development) where he worked on various economic development programs including tax-exempt bond financing. From 1997 through 2002, Mr. Feldman served on the board of director's of the Huntington Arts Council and is involved in the Men's division of the Schneider's Children's Medical Hospital. In 2006, Mr. Feldman was recognized by Long Island Business News in Who's Who in Real Estate Law. Mr. Feldman, a member of the New York State Bar, is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He received his Juris Doctor Degree from the Jacob D. Fuchsburg Law Center of Touro College, in 1983, where he was a member of the Law Review. He received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Drew University in 1980.

Louis A. Scarcella is a partner in Farrell Fritz?s Bankruptcy and Creditors? Rights Practice Group. He concentrates in the areas of bankruptcy, creditors? rights, business reorganization and out-of-court restructurings. Mr. Scarcella regularly represents corporate debtors, trustees, creditors? committees, lenders and other financial institutions, and insurance companies in corporate reorganization cases and out-of-court restructurings, as well as parties seeking to purchase the assets of, or invest in, financially-troubled companies. Prior to joining Farrell Fritz, Mr. Scarcella was a partner at Scarcella Rosen & Slome LLP, a bankruptcy and creditors? rights boutique firm he helped found in 2002. Prior to that, he was a partner of Phillips Nizer LLP, where he chaired the firm?s bankruptcy and restructuring practice group. Mr. Scarcella is a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Member, Committee on Bankruptcy and Corporate Reorganization and Subcommittee on Intellectual Property), Nassau County Bar Association (Member, Bankruptcy, Banking and Federal Court Committees), the New York State Bar Association (Member, Commercial and Federal Litigation Section) and the American Bar Association (Member, Section on Law and Business Litigation). He has lectured on creditors? rights and bankruptcy topics at continuing legal education programs sponsored by Hofstra University School of Law, the National Business Institute, the New York State Bar Association and the Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Associations. He is a contributing author to the text Bankruptcy Practice and Strategy (Warren Gorham & Lamont), a former member of the Board of Editors of The Banking Law Journal and has authored numerous articles on creditors? rights and bankruptcy issues. Mr. Scarcella is a 1973 magna cum laude graduate of Providence College and a 1977 graduate of Hofstra University School of Law. Mr. Scarcella is admitted to practice in New York and the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.

Louis Vlahos is a partner at Farrell Frtiz concentrating in tax law. Mr. Vlahos has extensive experience in corporate, individual and partnership income taxation, and in estate and gift taxation, including tax planning, ruling requests, and tax controversy. He has advised clients in connection with corporate operations and reorganizations, acquisitions of businesses, corporate distributions, partnership transactions, real estate operations, estate planning and private foundations. Before moving his practice to Long Island in 1996, Mr. Vlahos was associated with two New York City law firms which concentrated in tax matters. Mr. Vlahos has recently been appointed to the Board of Directors of Hellenic Link, a professional group that promotes exchange of professional and cultural ties between Americans of Greek descent and Greek nationals. Mr. Vlahos received his LL.M. in taxation from New York University in 1993, after he received his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1987. He graduated with an A.B. magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia College in 1984. Experienced in all areas of tax law, Mr. Vlahos has lectured on subjects such as corporate transactions and tax issues in the not-for-profit community, and was a panelist at a continuing education program sponsored by the Nassau Chapter of the New York Society of CPAs regarding the Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997. He is a member of the tax sections of both the New York State and the American Bar Associations. A member of the Tax Exempt Organization Committee as well as the Trusts and Estates Section's Committee on Exempt Organizations, Mr. Vlahos has written for various Matthew Bender publications. Mr. Vlahos is admitted to practice in the United States Tax Court and the State of New York.

Mr. Mahler received his Juris Doctor from the Fordham University School of Law in 1995 where he served as an associate editor of Fordham's Intellectual Property Media and Entertainment Law Journal. In 1992, Mr. Mahler graduated, cum laude, from the State University of New York at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science. Mr. Mahler is a member of the Business Advisory Board of Sterling National Bank and the New York State and Nassau County Bar Associations. Mr. Mahler is also active in the Ronald McDonald House of Long Island.

Nancy Lieberman is a partner in the firm?s Corporate and Banking Department, concentrating in general corporate practice with particular emphasis in corporate and securities transactions and regulations, including corporate governance. Ms. Lieberman started her career as a corporate associate in a prominent mid-sized New York City law firm specializing in sophisticated corporate securities, merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions. Ms. Lieberman then joined a Long-Island based corporate and securities boutique, becoming a partner, concentrating in the representation of five public companies. Ms. Lieberman counsels public and private business entities and private investors in connection with extraordinary transactions, such as private and public offerings (initial public offerings, follow-on offerings and secondary offerings on behalf of selling stockholders), acquisition transactions (stock and asset, including by merger and negotiated tender offer), divestiture transactions and bank financings. Ms. Lieberman also advises clients with regard to their ordinary course corporate agreements, such as non-disclosure agreements, employment agreements, consulting agreements, licenses, partnership agreements, joint venture agreements and LLC operating agreements. Additionally, Ms. Lieberman counsels public company clients in connection with their compliance with reporting requirements under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and NYSE and NASDAQ rules, including corporate governance, codes of conduct, committee charters and related legal issues. In April 2007, Ms. Lieberman was elected to the Board of Directors of Friends of the Arts (FOTA). Ms. Lieberman received her Juris Doctor degree in 1985 from New York University School of Law, where she was an editor on the Journal of International Law and Politics . She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Hofstra University in 1982.

Tricia Collins is UniversalGiving's Director of Operations responsible for general operations management, human resources, and team productivity. Ms. Collins determines operational priorities for each business unit, aligning them with UniversalGiving's strategy and goals. She works to ensure a high level of efficiency in each business unit, and effectiveness in working with each team member to help them reach their full potential. She works directly with the CEO to accomplish the objectives of UniversalGiving's Social Return on Investment report, which measures UniversalGiving's results and impact within our worldwide communities. Ms. Collins possesses a diverse operations background within for-profit and non-profit organization, focusing on the use of technology to reach strategic business objectives. While working for NIKE, she served as the business analyst between key business units and the technology department, facilitating the successful launch of a global product creation intranet tool, the first of its kind for NIKE. While at the non-profit, Friends of the Children, she assisted the national replication of a successful Oregon-based at-risk child mentor program to new sites all over the United States. Along with her 8 years of operations experience, she has 5 years of front-line education experience teaching in impoverished inner-city and international environments. Her interest in social impact originated with teaching in inner-city Los Angeles for Teach For America, leading a study abroad program in Spain, and doing her own service project work in the Dominican Republic and Costa Rica. She graduated Cum Laude from Duke University with majors in Spanish and Psychology. Her post-graduate studies include a Diploma of Hispanic Studies from the Fundacion Ortega y Gasset in Toledo, Spain, and a Professional Clear Credential for education with bilingual emphasis. (hide)

Peter A. Mahler represents clients in the resolution of complex business disputes as a partner in Farrell Fritz's Commercial Litigation Department. He has extensive trial and appellate experience in the state and federal courts and before arbitration tribunals involving diverse commercial, real estate, intellectual property, municipal law, employment and contract litigation. Mr. Mahler is a recognized authority on dissolution and valuation proceedings involving closely held business entities. He has authored numerous articles for legal publications, and has lectured and testified as an expert witness on "business divorce" of corporate shareholders, partners and limited liability company members. Mr. Mahler graduated summa cum laude from U.C. Santa Barbara and earned his law degree at The New York University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review. He served as Law Clerk to United States District Judge John R. Bartels in the Eastern District of New York. Following his clerkship Mr. Mahler was associated with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler and later joined Solin & Breindel, P.C., where he became a partner. Before joining Farrell Fritz in 2004 Mr. Mahler was a partner at Derfner & Mahler LLP, which he co-founded in 1992. Mr. Mahler is a member of the New York bar and also is admitted in the federal courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He belongs to the New York State and Westchester County Bar Associations.

Peter Curry is a partner in the Real Estate Group at Farrell Fritz. Mr. Curry's broadly-based transactional practice concentrates on commercial real estate sales, acquisitions, leasing and development, and in the burgeoning area of economic development. Specific transactions include counseling major corporations in the fields of telecommunications, bar-code technology, medical devices, pharmaceuticals manufacturing, food manufacture and distribution, Internet content, and other technology-driven fields in the acquisition or disposal of headquarters sites, manufacturing facilities, and warehouse and distribution centers in all areas of the United States. As one of the pre-eminent economic development attorneys in the New York metropolitan region, Mr. Curry has participated in Industrial Development Agency bond financings and leases for corporate headquarters, factories and distribution centers, commercial printing establishments, universities, hospitals and other civic facilities, and assisted living quarters and multi-family housing. He is also involved in obtaining grants, loans and other benefits from state and local agencies to foster corporate job growth and retention. Mr. Curry presently represents several large commercial lenders in their real estate and construction loans. Perhaps most importantly, he advises not-for-profit corporations and groups on all aspects of their missions, goals and objectives. Mr. Curry is general counsel for the Downstate New York Region of the Society of Industrial & Office Realtors (SIOR). He served as the Honorary Dinner Chair for the 2000 Interfaith Nutrition Network Innkeepers Ball Gala. He has also participated on the advisory board for the Epilepsy Foundation of Long Island, and on committees for various other charitable and educational institutions. Mr. Curry is on the Board of Directors of the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, Friends Assisting Nassau Seniors and The Interfaith Nutrition Newtwork (INN). He has frequently lectured on Continuing Legal Education course panels for the New York State Bar Association, and before various attorneys', accountants' and businessmens' panels. Mr. Curry is a member of the American Bar Association's Section of Real Property; Probate and Trust Law; Senior Housing and Assisted Living; and Purchase and Sale Committees. Before joining Farrell Fritz, Mr. Curry chaired the Real Estate and Financing Practice Group at Rivkin, Radler, & Kremer, a large multi-jurisdictional firm, from 1988 to 1998; and served on that firm's management committee. Prior to that, Mr. Curry practiced with a multi-national Chinese law firm from 1979 to 1983. In 2006, Mr. Curry was recognized by Long Island Business News in Who's Who in Real Estate Law. Mr. Curry, a member of the New York State Bar, is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He received his Juris Doctor Degree from Fordham University in 1978, as well as his Master of Arts Degree in American History from the University of Virginia in 1974. Mr. Curry received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from Fordham University in 1973.

Robert Creighton is a partner in the firm's Banking & Corporate and Health Care practice groups, concentrating in general corporate practice with a particular emphasis in merger and acquisition transactions and in representing banks in complex lending matters. Upon being admitted to practice, Mr. Creighton became an associate in the Corporate/Banking Group of Rogers & Wells, where he worked in the New York and London offices. Mr. Creighton then joined the Structured Finance Group at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom in New York. Mr. Creighton counsels businesses in connection with acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, joint ventures and other business combinations, shareholders' agreements, partnership agreements and employment agreements, and matters of corporate law generally. In addition, Mr. Creighton is knowledgeable in various types of commercial lending transactions, including secured and unsecured commercial financings, leveraged acquisitions, term loans, revolving credits, syndicated facilities and commercial paper and medium term note programs. Mr. Creighton also has significant structured finance experience, and completed numerous cross-border transactions. Mr. Creighton has experience in the health care industry ranging from advising a regional managed care company in connection with strategic transactions, advising physicians? practices in connection with general corporate advice and advising not-for-profit hospital boards in connection with various corporate governance issues. He has also represented health care providers, and lenders to health care providers, in connection with various financing transactions.

Stephen Melore is a partner in the firm?s Banking and Corporate Departments, concentrating in general corporate practice with particular emphasis on secured lending and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Melore began his career in 1987, as an associate at Rogers & Wells, New York, where he practiced until he joined Farrell Fritz in 1992. Mr. Melore has extensive experience in corporate transactions, including the representation of banks and syndicates in asset-based financing, project financing, acquisition financing, including leverage-buy-out and tender offer financing, and lease financing. This broad base of experience also extends to the representation of companies in acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs, recapitalizations, leverage-buy-outs and joint ventures. Mr. Melore also has experience in assisting companies in raising capital through the issuance of equity and debt securities. Mr. Melore received his Juris Doctor degree in 1987, from Cornell Law School, where he was an editor of the Cornell Law Review, and his Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude, in 1984, from the State University of New York College at Geneseo. Mr. Melore is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of America and a member of the Board of Trustees of New Ground.

Ted Berkowitz is a partner in the Commercial Litigation group at Farrell Fritz, concentrating in Bankruptcy and Creditors? Rights. He represents secured and unsecured creditors, landlords, purchasers of assets and other parties in interest in bankruptcy court proceedings. He defends preference and fraudulent conveyance actions as well as claims arising out of failed business transactions. Mr. Berkowitz also counsels clients in out-of-court workouts and debt restructurings. With over 20 years in the bankruptcy field, Mr. Berkowitz?s experience includes representation of major institutional lenders and corporate and individual creditors in many well known Chapter 11s. He has represented the Official Creditors? Committees in some of the largest and highest profile Chapter 11 cases filed in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. He has been appointed as both an Examiner and a Chapter 11 operating trustee by the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York, and is a member of the official mediation panel for the Bankruptcy Courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. He also served on the subcommittee which advised the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of New York concerning the formulation of the new local bankruptcy rules. He is the Vice Chair of the Bankruptcy Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association. An often-published author on bankruptcy and secured lending topics, Mr. Berkowitz served as editor of the Bankruptcy Strategist, a publication of the New York Law Journal, and is currently a member of its board as well as a frequent contributor. Mr. Berkowitz has recently been re-elected General Counsel of the Long Island chapter of Turnaround Management Association and has served on its board since the chapter?s inception. He is co-author of A Practitioner?s Guide to Compensation under Sections 331 and 506 (c) of the Bankruptcy Code, 92 ComL.J. 126 (1987) and Representing the Indenture Trustee in Chapter 11 Cases, Bankruptcy Practice and Strategy, (Warren, Gorham & Lamont 1991). He frequently lectures for the New York State Bar Association, the National Business Institute, the Nassau County Bar Association and Practicing Law Institute, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Association of Bankruptcy Professionals and the Advisory Board of the Bankruptcy LL.M program at St. John?s University Law School. Mr. Berkowitz, who served as the editor of the Law Review, received his J.D. cum laude from Boston University Law School in 1983. In 1980, he graduated from the State University of New York with honors. He is admitted to practice in New York and the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Thomas Killeen is a partner in the law firm of Farrell Fritz where he practices corporate, banking, health care and real estate law on behalf of public and private business organizations, not-for-profit organizations, school districts, municipalities and financial institutions. Some of his clients include hospitals, physicians and therapists. Mr. Killeen is a past Chair of the Banking Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association, where he also serves on the Ethics Committee, the Corporation Law Committee and the Speakers Bureau. He is a Life Fellow, New York Bar Foundation. A member of the New York State and American Bar Associations, Mr. Killeen has been a moderator/panel member/speaker at several American Bar Association Programs, Nassau and Suffolk County Bar Association Programs, St. John?s University School of Law Continuing Legal Education Programs, other Continuing Legal Education Programs, and various business, charitable and civic association meetings and events. He is admitted to practice in New York, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Federal Circuit, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York, the United States Tax Court, the United States Court of Claims and the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces. Mr. Killeen currently serves as Chair and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Long Island Alzheimer?s Foundation, as a member of Hofstra University?s Honors College Advisory Board and as a member of the Advisory Board of State Bank of Long Island. Mr. Killeen is also a founder and a member of the Board of Directors of the Long Island Community Chest, Inc., a non-profit organization established to help Long Islanders who have suffered severe economic or personal tragedy and are unable to obtain assistance from other support channels, and is the Secretary and a member of the Board of Directors of the Patriot Group, Inc., a non-profit organization founded by retired firefighters to train and assist organizations throughout the world whose duty it is to protect the public in responding to catastrophic events -- natural or man-made -- while promoting patriotism. He is also an active participant in the Volunteer Lawyers Initiative for the Diocese of Rockville Centre-based Catholic Charities. Mr. Killeen has also served on the Executive Advisory Board of the Center for Family Business, as a member of the Board of Directors of the Nassau County Sports Commission and as Chair of the Village of Munsey Park Civic Association.

Aaron Zerykier is an associate in Farrell Fritz?s Litigation Department. Prior to joining Farrell Fritz, P.C., Mr. Zerykier worked as an associate at Ganfer and Shore, LLP, focusing on complex commercial and securities litigation; before that he was a summer/student associate. He worked as a legal intern at the New York City Department of Law, Office of the Corporation Counsel Special Litigation Unit and at the Honorable Leon Ruchelsman?s Chambers. Mr. Zerykier received his J. D. in 2002 from Fordham University School of Law. He earned his B.A., cum laude, in 1999 from Yeshiva University, where he majored in Psychology and minored in Business. Mr. Zerykier is admitted to practice law in the state and federal courts of New York and New Jersey.

A former partner for many years, Andrew Simons is now Special Counsel to the firm and consults with the firm s lawyers and clients on significant issues in enviromental law, appellate practice and New York procedure. A frequent lecturer and author, Mr. Simons recently serves as the Associate Academic Dean at St. John s University School of Law, where he teaches New York Practice and related courses. As the Academic Dean Mr. Simons is regonizable for the implementation of the school s academic program. A past president and permanent member of the Board of Directors of the Nassau County Bar Association, he is also active in the New York State Bar Association (Environmental Law Section) and the American Bar Association (Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar). Dean Simons is admitted to practice in the courts of New York State, the United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal and Second Circuits, and the United States District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York. Dean Simons graduated from St. John s University School of Law in 1965, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the St. John s Law Review, and received his A.B. in English Literature from the College of the Holy Cross in 1960. He served on active duty from 1960 to 1962 in the United States Navy, and has been a long-time member of St. Brigid s Parish in Westbury, New York.

David Scheffel is an associate with Farrell Fritz concentrating in commercial litigation. He represents large and small companies in federal and state courts. His area of practice includes corporate disputes involving breach of fiduciary duty claims against board of directors, breach of contract, tortious interference with contract, misappropriation of trade secrets and other complex matters. Prior to joining Farrell Fritz, Mr. Scheffel was a law clerk to United States District Judge Arthur D. Spatt of the Eastern District of New York. Before his clerkship, he was an associate with Condon & Forsyth where he litigated issues in international aviation. Earlier, he was an assistant district attorney in the Bronx County District Attorney's Office where he conducted a number of bench and jury trials. Mr. Scheffel received his Juris Doctor cum laude in 1996 from Pace University School of Law where he was a Managing Editor of the Pace Law Review and a member of the Moot Court Board. In 1992, he received his Bachelor of Arts from Manhattanville College. He has published the following articles: Interlocutory Appeals in New York -- Time Has Come for a More Efficient Approach, 16 Pace L. Rev. 607 (1996); and Harris v. Alabama -- A Portrait of Deference to the States in Capital Punishment, 19 Thomas Jefferson L. Rev. 39 (1997). Mr. Scheffel is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Federal Bar Council and the Nassau County Bar Association. He is also a member of the Sea Cliff Board of Zoning Appeals. In 2007, Mr. Scheffel was elected First Vice President of the Lutheran Church of the Resurrection. As such, he is a member of the church counsel. Mr. Scheffel is admitted to practice in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts and in the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York and in the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.

Debbie Chun is an associate in Farrell Fritz?s Commercial Litigation Department. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Chun was an associate at a major New York City law firm. While there, she represented leading national insurance companies, both as litigation and coverage counsel, in matters arising from complex directors? and officers? liability claims, as well as general commercial litigation. Her experience includes securities matters, including mergers and acquisitions; IPO-related litigation; and employment-related claims. Ms. Chun has also acted as special counsel for mediations and direct settlement negotiations. Ms. Chun earned her Juris Doctor in 2001 from Brooklyn Law School, where she was the recipient of the Philip Hoffer Prize for Excellence in Torts. She received her B.A. in Philosophy in 1989 from Binghamton University. Ms. Chun is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Frank T. Santoro is an associate in Farrell Fritz?s Trusts and Estates department, concentrating in trusts and estates litigation. Prior to joining Farrell Fritz, Mr. Santoro was an associate at Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman and Dicker, LLP, where he concentrated in litigation and administrative matters, defending design professionals and litigating commercial disputes and insurance coverage claims. Before that he worked as a law clerk and associate at Thurm and Heller, LLP and as a law clerk at Feldman and Markman, LLP. Mr. Santoro graduated in 2001 from Brooklyn Law School in the top 20 percent of his class. He received his B. A. in History from Binghamton University in 1996. Mr. Santoro is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the U.S. District Court, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York.

James D. Bennett is counsel to Farrell Fritz concentrating in estate administration and planning. Mr. Bennett was appointed Commissioner of the New York State Public Service Commission in March 1998, and his term ran through April 2004. Prior to his appointment to the Commission, Mr. Bennett served on the Board of the Long Island Power Authority, where he served on various committees and was Chairman of the Conservation/Competition Committee. He has represented the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) in testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee and has been selected as one of six Commissioners from throughout the country to serve on the NARUC special committee constituted to assess infrastructure vulnerability and consequence mitigation after the events of September 11. Mr. Bennett has been active in civic, community, business and legal activities for several decades, having served the Kiwanis, the Boy Scouts of America, the American Cancer Society, as Chairman of the Long Island Area Development Agency, Chairman of the Long Island Regional Export Council, and as a member of the Long Island Tourism Commission. Active in real estate management, Mr. Bennett was CEO of the Holiday Inn located in Rockville Centre, New York. He served on the board of the St. Francis-Mercy Hospital Corporation. He was Supervisor of the Town of Hempstead and the County of Nassau from 1978 to 1987. Prior to those responsibilities, he was a Town Councilman from 1967 through 1977, during which time he served as Chairman of all Town Committees including Parks and Recreation, Traffic, Lighting, Sanitation and Conservation and Waterways. On the County Board of Supervisors, Mr. Bennett chaired the Committees of Commerce and Industry as well as education. He was appointed by Governor Hugh Carey and Governor Mario Cuomo to the New York State Conservation Fund Advisory Council. He is also on the Board of Flushing Savings Bank. Mr. Bennett has served on the Board of Directors for Southampton Hospital. Mr. Bennett attended Cornell University and Cornell Law School, where he was an honors graduate, serving on the Cornell Law Quarterly (1961-62). He was elected to the Executive Committee of the Cornell Law School in 1993 for a second three-year term. He served two years in the U.S. Army as a First Lieutenant and was a Lieutenant Colonel in the New York State Guard. Mr. Bennett is a member of the New York and Florida Bars, the Nassau County and American Bar Associations, and has served as a guest lecturer at a number of law institutes, academies and associations. He has been listed in Who's Who in American Law since 1987.

James F. DeVarso is counsel in the Real Estate, Corporate and Banking Group at Farrell Fritz concentrating in commercial real estate finance, commercial real estate transactions and leasing. He focuses on commercial real estate financing, including fee and leasehold mortgages on office buildings, shopping centers, industrial buildings and multi-family structures including cooperatives and condominium ownership. Mr. DeVarso has worked on transactions such as representing a major corporation on the sale and lease back of its New York City headquarters, representing investment banking clients in the origination of mortgages for the mortgage backed securities markets, numerous office leases for financial institutional clients and mortgage, real estate and joint venture investments and workouts for a number of life insurance companies. Before joining Farrell Fritz, Mr. DeVarso was affiliated with Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft in their Real Estate Department and previous to that, Senior Vice President and Counsel, Real Estate to USLIFE Corporation, responsible for the legal aspects of the company's mortgage and real estate investments for its life insurance company subsidiaries. Mr. DeVarso is a member of the Nassau County, New York State Bar Associations (Member Real Property Section) as well as an emeritus member of The Association of Life Insurance Counsel. He received his Juris Doctor degree in 1973 from St. John's University School of Law. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Francis College in 1969. Mr. DeVarso is admitted to practice in New York and the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Jeffrey P. Rust is an associate in Farrell Fritz's Corporate and Banking Department. Mr. Rust specializes in corporate matters with particular emphasis on secured lending and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Rust counsels clients in corporate governance, securities regulation and compliance; mergers and acquisitions; employment agreements; health care law; intellectual property matters; shareholder and partnership agreements; and the formation and operation of for-profit and not-for-profit entities. He has represented major international businesses in complex mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate restructurings and lending transactions. In 2007, Mr. Rust was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Long Island Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation. Mr. Rust received his J.D. from The University of Akron School of Law in 1999 where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Akron Law Review. He also earned an M.B.A. in Finance from The University of Akron College of Business. Mr. Rust graduated from the State University of New York College at Geneseo in 1992 with a B.S. in Management. Mr. Rust is a member of the New York State and American Bar Associations. He is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey.

Joseph La Ferlita is an associate at Farrell Fritz concentrating in trusts and estates law. Mr. La Ferlita is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is a member of the American, New York State, and Massachusetts Bar Associations. Mr. La Ferlita is particularly active in the New York State Bar Association?s Trusts and Estates Law Section, serving as the Vice Chair of the Committee on Surrogate?s Courts and as a member of the Committee on Estate and Trust Administration. In addition, he has served as a co-editor of the program course books for the Trusts and Estates Law Section?s committee meetings.

Michael A.H. Schoenberg is an associate in the Commercial Litigation Department. Mr. Schoenberg received his Juris Doctor degree, magna cum laude, in 2003 from Hofstra University School of Law, where he served as Research Editor of Hofstra Law Review. He earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree from University of Maryland-College Park in 2000. Mr. Schoenberg was previously associated with a prominent New York City law firm, where he gained experience in the areas of corporate finance and financial restructuring. Mr. Schoenberg is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the Federal Bar Council. Mr. Schoenberg is admitted to practice in the States of New York and New Jersey, the Southern and Eastern District Courts of New York, the District Court of New Jersey and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Michael J. Healy is counsel to Farrell Fritz in the Commercial Litigation Department of the firm, concentrating primarily in reorganizational law and complex commercial litigation. Mr. Healy began his career by serving as a law clerk to the Honorable William E. Anderson, United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of Virginia, for three years. Mr. Healy, who joined Farrell Fritz in 1988, works with a diverse client base, from representing secured institutional lenders in large corporate reorganizations and litigation to out-of-court workouts for smaller companies. Mr. Healy received his Juris Doctor degree from Wake Forest University Law School in 1985, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1982 from Davidson College. Mr. Healy is admitted to practice in the states of New York and Pennsylvania, and the United States District Court, Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Patricia Marcin is counsel to Farrell Fritz concentrating in estate planning and administration. Her practice includes all phases of the administration of estates, including the analysis and review of estate and fiduciary income tax issues and administrative and legal issues in each estate, and the preparation of wills and trusts and other estate planning documents. Previously Ms. Marcin was Vice President, Estate Administration, with U.S. Trust Company of New York, with responsibility for all phases of the administration of estates, including tax, litigation and accounting issues. Ms. Marcin was also associated with the New York City law firm of Shearman and Sterling for over ten years, where she was an attorney in the Individual Clients group responsible for the administration of estates and the preparation of wills, trusts and other estate planning documents, as well as pre-nuptial agreements. Ms. Marcin is a member of the Nassau Estate Planning Council, the New York State Bar Association (Trust and Estate section and the subcommittee on trust and estate administration, charitable organizations, and exempt organizations) and the Nassau County Bar Association (Trust and Estate Committee). In 2007, Ms. Marcin was elected co-president of the Cold Spring Harbor Special Education Parent Teachers Association (SEPTA) and was also chosen to sit on the School Improvement Team (SIT) committee for the Lloyd Harbor School. She is a parent representative on the Committee for Special Education for the Cold Spring Harbor School District, which reviews and determines the special education services children in the district are to receive. In 2006, Ms. Marcin was appointed Vice President of the Goose Hill Primary School?s Parent Faculty Association (GPFA) in the Cold Spring Harbor School District. Ms. Marcin is the Cold Spring Harbor Special Education Parent Teacher Association (SEPTA) representative and serves on the School Improvement Team Committee for the Goose Hill Primary School. Ms. Marcin has written on estate planning and administration, and authored an Article entitled The Basics of Settling on Executor?s Account. She has spoken at conferences about tax and legal issues in estate administration and estate planning. She graduated summa cum laude from the Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro College in 1985, where she was Valedictorian and Managing Editor of the Law Review, and received her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1981. Ms. Marcin is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Peter Colgrove practices in the area of banking, zoning and subdivision law and municipal law. He is counsel to the Board of Trustees and to the Planning Board of a Nassau County Village and represents individuals and large organizations before numerous municipal boards in Nassau and Suffolk Counties. Mr. Colgrove is one of the managers of the firm?s residential mortgage lending practice and has extensive experience in advising and representing institutional lenders in the area. Mr. Colgrove resides in Locust Valley, where he serves on the Boards of several not-for-profit organizations. He is admitted to the New York State Bar and also to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Mr. Colgrove is a member of the Nassau County and New York State Bar Associations (Municipal Law Committee).

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Robert C. Yan is an associate in the Commercial Litigation department of Farrell Fritz, concentrating in bankruptcy and creditors? rights. In 2003, Mr. Yan received his Master of Laws in Bankruptcy from St. John?s University School of Law, where he also received his Juris Doctor in 2001 and served as Editor-in-Chief of the AMERICAN BANKRUPTCY INSTITUTE LAW REVIEW. In 1997, he received his Bachelor of Science in Psychobiology from Binghamton University. He is the author of The Sign Says, ?Help Wanted, Inquire Within? ? But It May Not Matter If You Have Ever Filed (or Plan to File) for Bankruptcy, 10 Am. Bankr. Inst. L. Rev. 429 (2002). Mr. Yan is admitted to practice in New York as well as the United States District Court for the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.

Steven Davi is an associate in the commercial litigation department of Farrell Fritz concentrating in labor and employment law. Mr. Davi has practiced extensively before state and federal Courts in both New York and New Jersey as well as before the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and various state fair employment practice agencies. He has also advised public and private sector clients on a multitude of labor and employment issues including hiring, disciplinary and discharge processes, family and medical leave policies and the preparation of employee handbooks. Mr. Davi received his Juris Doctor in 1996 from St. John's University Law School, where he was a member of the St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary and authored To Tell the Truth: An Analysis of Fiduciary Disclosure Duties and Employee Standing to Assert Claims under ERISA, St. John's Journal of Legal Commentary, Summer 1995. In 1991, he received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Mr. Davi is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Sections of both the American and New York State Bar Associations.

Mr. Johnson received a B.A. degree in Government & Politics (summa cum laude) from St. John's University in 1991 and his Juris Doctor degree from St. John's Law School in 1994, where he was a St. Thomas More scholar. In additiion, Mr. Johnson served as an Articles & Notes Editor for the St. John's Law Review and, upon graduation, was awarded the ABA/BNA Award for Excellence in the Study of Labor & Employment Law. Mr. Johnson is admitted to practice in the State of New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and is a member of the Nassau County Bar Association (Labor and Employment Committee).

Wendy Forrest is an associate in the Real Estate Group at Farrell Fritz. Ms. Forrest?s broad based real estate practice concentrates on commercial acquisitions, sales, leasing, real estate development, financing and economic development. Ms. Forrest represents national tenants and large landlords in office and retail leasing transactions as well as public and private corporations and real estate developers in acquisitions and sales. Ms. Forrest also represents large commercial lenders in their real estate and construction loans and borrowers in Industrial Development Agency bond financings and straight-lease transactions. Additionally, Ms. Forrest represents non-for-profit organizations in acquisitions and financing transactions. Prior to joining Farrell Fritz, Ms. Forrest practiced at a mid-sized New York City law firm where she specialized in all aspects of commercial and residential transactions, including the representation of cooperative and condominium boards and purchasers of new construction apartments. Ms. Forrest graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania (B.A. 1997) and Fordham University School of Law (J.D. 2000). In June 2001, she was admitted to the Bar of the State of New York.