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 Florida office is located in Boca Raton.

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

Lehman & Eilen's corporate and securities group handles a broad range of business 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 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 in initial public offerings, follow-on offerings, debt financings, spin-offs, joint ventures and other sophisticated mergers and acquisitions. We also represent both companies and executives in employment and compensation matters, including employment agreements and stock-based benefit plans.

Our experience in all types of legal, financial, regulatory and corporate governance issues makes us uniquely qualified to assist closely held companies and their underwriters as these companies navigate the path of rapid growth, early-stage capital raising and the transition to public ownership. We help management and boards of directors structure intercompany relationships, adopt new charters, address disclosure questions and develop new compensation arrangements, and we help underwriters advise their clients on these matters. As a company makes the transition to public status, we provide detailed, step-by-step guidance to officers and boards on the requirements of public ownership.

Lehman & Eilen has established a national reputation for creative, high-quality and responsive services representing both issuers and underwriters in private placement and securities offerings. We advise clients of the federal and state securities laws regulating transactions involving the issuance and transfer of securities. Our attorneys advise public companies on their continuing compliance obligations under federal and state securities laws, as well as the rules of the applicable stock exchange. Much of our practice involves advice regarding public company current quarterly and annual reports that are filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.