Victor Metsch practices primarily in the area of commercial dispute resolution, including arbitration, mediation, appeals work, and litigation in the Federal, State and Surrogate’s Courts. He has developed extensive experience in the areas of banking, title work, brokerage, construction, architecture and engineering as they apply to the purchase, sale, financing, design, development, construction, renovation and leasing of commercial and residential real properties. Mr. Metsch representations include cooperatives, condominiums, banks, institutional lenders, developers, landlords and tenants. He also practices in the area of employment law and litigation where representations include both employers and employees. He served on various committees of the… Read more
He has particular expertise in mergers and acquisitions and general corporate matters. He is involved on a continuing basis with a number of corporations providing legal services as general counsel. Mr. Paller is involved extensively in the representation of private equity funds both on the buy side, as well as the sell side. He has significant experience in representing companies that are being sold as well as companies that are acquiring other entities. A native of Atlanta, Mr. Paller received a B.S. degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina in 1956. He earned his LL.B. degree from… Read more
For most of his legal career, Mr. Peters has engaged in a commercial real estate practice and has more than 30 years of experience representing parties to real estate transactions. His current practice is focused on acquisitions and dispositions, real estate-based financings, and leasing. His clients include developers, lenders, investors, and corporate owners and lessees of office, industrial, and retail properties. He also has a background in transactions involving specialized real estate interests such as mineral estates and railroad rights of way. Mr. Peters also has participated in and supervised many transactions in which the Firm has acted as issuer’s… Read more
Mr. Pramov practices in the areas of general business, real estate and taxation. General business matters include corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations and reorganizations and institutional loans, workouts and restructuring. Real estate matters include purchase and sale transactions, financing, development and construction, leasing, licenses and easements, tax planning – exchanges, entity selection, environmental compliance, land use and planning, property taxation and title issues. Taxation matters include corporate and partnership taxation, real estate taxation, personal tax planning and tax controversy work including litigation. Hank is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Virginia… Read more
Gregg A. Rapoport joined SGR as Of Counsel in 2018. Drawing from his years as a partner and an associate at a previous national firm, and at smaller boutique litigation firms, Gregg brings a depth of experience in complex commercial, real estate, and insurance matters, as well as the breadth of a “generalist” litigation practice. Known for taking on the most complex and challenging high-stakes cases, whether in the trial and appellate courts or in arbitration, Gregg has successfully represented companies, shareholders, entrepreneurs, nonprofits and individuals in hundreds of federal and state cases across California and beyond. Gregg advises and… Read more
Thomas Rhodes has practiced antitrust and trade-regulation law on a national scale for more than 35 years. Mr. Rhodes’s clients include airlines and producers of copper wire, buses, sporting goods, industrial machinery, medical devices, aluminum products, motor homes, construction products, agricultural products, paper, steel, ceramics, food products, automotive parts, juvenile products, and chemicals, as well as hospitals and trade and professional associations. Mr. Rhodes has been lead counsel in large antitrust cases and has handled the antitrust side of mergers and acquisitions. He represents a number of trade and professional associations as antitrust counsel or general counsel. Mr. Rhodes is… Read more
