- DivorceOur litigation team’s expertise covers a variety of substantive areas, including complex contractual disputes (e.g., purchase and sale agreements, commercial leases, licensing and franchise agreements, employment agreements), banking relationships (e.g., lender liability, letters of credit, debt restructurings and workouts, foreign bank secrecy laws, and creditor’s rights), securities matters, private shareholder disputes, insurance coverage, unfair competition, trademark and trade dress infringement, family law and divorce.
- Child SupportWe provide caring and effective representation of individuals in a wide variety of domestic relations matters. Our clients (or their spouses) have included business executives, business owners, physicians, attorneys, and other prominent individuals. We are skilled in all sectors of the practice, including the drafting and negotiation of prenuptial, postnuptial and separation agreements, as well as the prosecution and defense of custody disputes, contested and uncontested divorce actions, matters of equitable distribution, spousal maintenance and child support proceedings, and post-judgment enforcement proceedings.
- Spousal Support
- Corporate Law
- Business Transactions
- Unfair Competition
- Workers CompensationThe Firm possesses extensive experience representing insurers, insurance professionals and policyholders. We handle such issues as coverage, claims handling, and bad faith on a variety of policies, including commercial general liability, builders' risk, workers compensation and employers liability, fidelity, errors and omissions, commercial auto and trucking, garage, first party property, directors and officers, homeowners, excess and umbrella insurance. We also assist in the monitoring of lawsuits commenced against our clients’ policyholders to protect the insurer’s interests.
- Employment ContractWe provide our clients with high quality representation in general corporate and business transactions, including organization and structuring of business entities, secured financing, debt restructuring and employment matters. In this capacity, we regularly prepare and review a wide range of business contracts, including leases, employment contracts, joint venture agreements, shareholder agreements, license agreements and related documents.
- Real Estate TransactionsJaffe & Asher has long handled a broad spectrum of real estate transactions, ranging from the purchase, sale, leasing and refinancing of individual homes, condominiums and cooperative apartments to similar transactions involving commercial buildings.
- Debt CollectionTranslation and description of common debt collection terms are available in multiple languages on the DCA’s website, www.nyc.gov/dca.