Areas of Practice

• Corporate and securities law
• Public and private equity and debt financings
• Initial and secondary public offerings
• Mergers, acquisitions, and business combinations
• Securities law reporting and compliance
• Anti-takeover and corporate governance matters
• International transactions
• Commercial transactions
• Joint ventures
• Formation of investment funds
• Regulation of international transfer of cultural property
• Art Law commercial transactions and disputes

Represent

• Private dealers and collectors of fine art and antiquities
• National Association of Dealers in Ancient, Oriental and Primitive Art, Inc.

Bar Admissions

New York

Legal Career

• Joined Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe LLP in 1997 after being associated with the New York City law firm of Phillips Nizer Benjamin Krim & Ballon LLP

Author/Speaker

• Author, Bookshelf: "The Expert Versus the Object: Judging Fakes and False Attributions in the Visual Arts," New York Law Journal (September 14, 2004)
• Author, "Claims for the Repatriation of Cultural Property: Prospects for a Managed Antiquities Market," 28:1 Georgetown Journal of Law & Policy in International Business (1997)
• Contributing Editor, Art, Culture & the National Agenda: Preserving Our Heritage, Center for Arts and Culture (2001)
• Author, "Jeanneret v. Vichey, Sales of Illegally Exported Art Under the Uniform Commercial Code," 6 Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business 275 (1984)
• Numerous interviews and speaking engagements regarding U.S. law and policy related to cultural property

Professional Activities & Associations

• Member, International Cultural Property Committee, American Bar Association
• Member, American Council for Cultural Policy
• Strategic Advisory Board, ABIS Corporation (art title insurance)
• Member, Art Law Committee (1997-2000); Co-chair, Subcommittee on Cultural Property (1998-2000) Association of the Bar of the City of New York

Education

• J. D., Northwestern University School of Law (1984), Notes and Comments Editor on the Journal of International Law & Business; Lowden-Wigmore Prize for Student Writing
• B. A., cum laude, Yale College (1979)