Meister Seelig & Fein PLLC > New York, United States > Firm Profile

Co-Founder & Chairperson: Mark J. Seelig
Administrative Partner & Chair, Commercial Litigation & Crisis Management: Mitchell Schuster
Number of Attorneys: 75

Meister Seelig & Fein PLLC is a full-service law firm driven by entrepreneurial energy and focused on delivering results for our clients. Many of our attorneys have worked at some of the most prestigious law firms in New York. They have come to MSF to provide a more hands-on approach to the practice of law in an environment that understands business needs and is focused on achieving our clients’ objectives. We provide counsel to companies across a variety of industries and all stages of growth, and work closely with family offices, high-net-worth individuals, and entrepreneurs. This breadth of experience enables our attorneys to provide superior and sophisticated service and advice in an efficient, cost-effective manner.

Commercial Litigation & Cross-Border Dispute Resolution – Our attorneys represent a diverse clientele including foreign sovereigns before international tribunals and local courts and assist with creating global teams of qualified professionals who consistently offer determination, innovation, and strategy along with top-notch client service. Our industry experience is just as diverse as our experience, and spans financial services, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, energy, technology, and many others.

Corporate – We serve as corporate and securities counsel for public and privately held companies across a variety of industries and all stages of growth, as well as family offices, high net worth individuals and entrepreneurs. We counsel our clients during all stages of the life cycle of a business from start-up through sale, including corporate, limited liability company and partnership formation, structure, governance, exit and the complete business and legal cycle in between. Our experience extends to general corporate and portfolio company representation, corporate governance, complex merger and acquisition transactions, private equity, joint ventures, and public and private offerings of securities. We regularly handle cross-border transactions and companies seeking to enter the U.S. business market. This breadth of experience enables our attorneys to provide superior and sophisticated service and practical advice and solutions in an efficient, cost-effective manner.

Criminal Defense & Government Investigations- The MSF Criminal Defense Group consists of experienced trial lawyers, whose practices focus on white-collar and U.S. regulatory enforcement action defense, including SEC, CFTC and FINRA actions, cross-border investigations, and complex criminal litigation. Our practice includes representing officers, directors, and other principals of public and private corporations across various industries, including finance, securities, health care, and government contractors. We represent individuals in defense of investigations brought by the DOJ, SEC, CFTC, FTC, IRS, state banking regulators and local law enforcement agencies. Representative cases include defense of alleged securities and commodities fraud, public corruption (including FCPA), accounting and bank fraud, money laundering, tax fraud, art and antiquities fraud, antitrust, and national or international sanctions violations. Our group’s lawyers have successfully tried cases before juries and judges in both federal and state courts. We also have obtained favorable judgments in cases before government administrative panels and arbitrators. In addition to litigation, we regularly advise clients on various legal and compliance issues across various industries.

Crisis Management – Our Crisis Management Team handles high-profile crisis matters for high-net-worth individuals, professional athletes and celebrity clients. We understand how to protect our clients from potential brand-damaging situations whether through litigation, negotiation, or strategic communications, we develop solutions to aggressively protect our clients’ assets. In crisis situations, allegations may be verifiably true, and some may be blatantly false. Either way, the publicity will be extremely damaging to the target because it could impact relationships with significant others, employers, friends, family, colleagues, or clients. At MSF, dealing with the crisis quickly, quietly, and professionally, we know is critical. Our top clients have become part of the MSF family, turning to us for advice every step of the way in both their professional life and personal life.

Employment – The firm’s Employment Group represents both companies, including start-ups and public and private companies of all sizes and across all industries, and individuals, including high level executive, C-suite members and high net worth sports, media and entertainment clients. The firm counsels corporate clients in proactively addressing, and if necessary, defending against, an assortment of employment issues that arise throughout every phase of the employment relationship. Our executive representation includes strategic advice and counsel on employment, restrictive covenant, and separation agreements. Our attorneys’ experience in both law firm and corporate in-house environments provides our clients access to strategic minded business partners who understand the corporate world.

Real Estate – MSF’s Real Estate Group represents a diverse group of institutional and private investors, developers, lenders, landlords and tenants and have handled some of the most complex, high-profile transactions in the market today. Our work spans all asset classes in virtually all U.S. jurisdictions, ranging from the simplest to the most creative transaction structures, involving every level of the capital stack. We provide the unique ability to understand and focus on the essential business and legal issues of our clients’ transactions and therefore guide them in reaching both efficient and economical results.

Taxation & Estates – Our attorneys provide personalized and sophisticated advice on estate and personal planning to individuals and families, and charitable giving. Our clients come to us to help them to navigate the pitfalls of estate planning, including domicile issues, family dynamics and retaining wealth over multiple generations.

Our clients include high-net worth individuals and families, entrepreneurs and businesses who rely on our proven ability to address planned or unexpected intergenerational transfers of wealth issues and facilitate business transactions and restructuring opportunities to maximize tax efficiencies and to free-up assets, time, and energy for the revitalization of a family or business.