The bankruptcy practice at M&R is in a league of its own. We skillfully handle the matters facing debtors—whether they be individuals, corporations, partnerships, LLCs, or equity holders—in the full range of bankruptcy-related matters. These include early-stage evaluations and asset protection, pre-petition planning, adversary proceedings and related insolvency litigation, relief from stay, out-of-court workouts, business reorganizations and bankruptcies, complex Chapter 7 liquidation and Chapter 11 reorganization cases, and distressed asset purchases and sales, to name a few.

Complementing our extraordinary team of bankruptcy attorneys are tax, corporate, real estate, and litigation lawyers that are at the top of their respective fields. Together, these legal pros provide outstanding representation for all types of entities and individuals facing major liabilities, slumping business, and cash-flow problems.

Our clients’ personal protection, bottom lines, and business objectives are front of mind whenever M&R's Commercial & Business Litigation Practice Group is called for representation.

The firm’s commercial and business litigators handle virtually all types of disputes wherever they may arise—in federal and states courts nationwide, in the administrative and regulatory setting, and before arbitrators and mediators across the country. We are renowned for handling the most challenging of cases, and whatever the issues may be, our approach to every matter is exacting, thorough, strategic and, above all, effective.

The reach of M&R’s Corporate & Securities Practice Group spans industries and borders. We represent a domestic and international clientele in transactions in numerous sectors–Banking & Financial Services, Consumer Products, Digital Media & Advertising, Entertainment & Music, Health Care, Hospitality, Insurance, Real Estate, Retail & Apparel, and Sports, among them. These deals range from routine financings to highly complex acquisitions, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and endorsement transactions. Likewise, our transactional team guides our clients (athletes, coaches, agents, and agencies, included) through the life cycle of their businesses, routinely handling entity formation and then providing advice and counsel regarding day-to-day operations, expansion, and ultimately sales, mergers, or other liquidity events. In all cases, our transactional attorneys bring a practical, business-focused mindset that enables them to accomplish client goals in an efficient and business-savvy manner.

M&R’s criminal trial specialists, including those who are former federal prosecutors, are single-minded in their efforts to protect oftentimes high-profile clients facing felony and misdemeanor charges and significant monetary penalties. They do so both domestically and internationally and across jurisdictions in cases involving the U.S. Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Internal Revenue Service, state prosecutors, and attorney general offices, among others. From grand jury subpoenas and trials to appeals and post-verdict litigation, we are exceptional advocates with extensive experience.

M&R’s IP pros take all steps necessary to register—and by extension, protect—client trademarks, copyrights, and patents. Likewise, we provide sought after advice and counsel on licensing strategies, which frequently involves the negotiating and drafting of licensing agreements. In our view, the legal justifications for protecting IP on behalf of athletes and coaches are too often overlooked. Yet registering copyrights, trademarks, and patents have a meaningful impact in terms of their owner’s bottom line. Without question, the enhanced rights that are part and parcel to the IP protection we provide add significant value to personalities, brands, and businesses.

The importance of real estate holdings in our clients’ overall allocation of assets and within their investment portfolios is not lost on M&R. Indeed, our Real Estate Practice Group has its hands in virtually every aspect of real estate law, from advising buyers and sellers of residential and commercial property to providing counsel to developers, builders, institutional investors, borrowers, and lenders. And because real estate transactions frequently touch upon a broad range of issues, M&R’s real estate practitioners routinely collaborate with lawyers from our Banking & Financial Services, Construction, Corporate & Securities, Environmental, and Tax Practice Groups, all of whom are well versed in the real estate business. And when transactions result in litigation, our commercial and business litigators are poised to handle even the most difficult of cases.