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About the author: David A. Zarett

Mr. Zarett, a founding member of the Firm, focuses his professional practice on litigation, arbitration and administrative proceedings. He also served as an Adjunct Professor of Law at Fordham Law School, where he taught a class for a number of years in Healthcare Law and Policy. For over 30 years, Mr. Zarett has focused his law practice on the representation of healthcare providers in state and federal courts, arbitration proceedings, and before numerous administrative bodies…

About the author: Alan H. Sonnenklar

Mr. Sonnenklar is a Partner of the Firm and the Co-Chair of the Firm’s corporate, transactional and healthcare practice groups. He joined the Firm in 2005, after practicing in the health law departments of several large, nationally recognized law firms. He possesses more than 20 years of transactional, corporate and regulatory experience representing healthcare businesses, physicians and other professionals, group practices, hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, diagnostic and treatment centers and other healthcare facilities, management service organizations, and other commercial and not-for-profit organizations rendering healthcare and health-related services.

About the author: Mathew J. Levy

Mathew J. Levy is a Partner of the Firm and the Co-Chair of the Firm’s corporate, transactional and healthcare practice groups. Mr. Levy has particular experience in, structuring and negotiating joint venture agreements, stock purchase, asset sale agreements, shareholders agreements, partnership agreements, settlement agreements, employment contracts, managed care agreements and commercial leases. Among the areas in which he focuses are coordinating mergers and acquisitions, compliance programs, ambulatory surgery centers, establishment of diagnostic and treatment centers, HIPAA privacy regulations, fee-splitting issues, Stark law issues, fraud and abuse rules and regulations and Medicare/ Medicaid, Oxford, Americhoice and other third party payor audits.

About the author: Joshua Sussman

Mr. Sussman is a Partner of the Firm and the Chair of the Firm’s litigation practice group. He joined the Firm in 2021 and represents clients in complex commercial and real estate litigation in New York and New Jersey state and federal courts as well as in arbitration. He works with clients to understand their needs and resolve their disputes practically and efficiently, both inside and outside the courtroom.

About the author: Lisa Giunta-Popeil

Lisa Giunta-Popeil joined the Firm in 2022. A seasoned litigator with over ten years of experience in both trial and appellate courts, Lisa maintains a broad general commercial litigation practice. Her matters have included breach of contract actions, disputes between shareholders, corporate dissolution proceedings, commercial arbitrations, commercial mediations, business tort actions (including misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of restrictive covenants, deceptive trade practices, fraudulent conveyance and breach of fiduciary duty), creditor’s rights litigation, securities fraud litigation and litigation involving alternative financing arrangements, including factoring and merchant cash advance transactions.

About the author: Jaime D. Lewis

Jaime D. Lewis, Esq. concentrates her practice in the areas of Estate Planning, Trust and Estate Administration, Elder Law, and Special Needs Planning. Working with families across Long Island and New York City, Jaime is as a trusted advisor for her clients, providing peace of mind in an uncertain world.

About the author: Keren G. Birnbaum

Keren G. Birnbaum, Esq. concentrates her practice in the areas of Estate Planning, Trust and Estate Administration, Elder Law, and Special Needs Planning. She has over 15 years of experience advising clients on how to protect themselves, their loved ones and their businesses in the event of death, incapacity or disability.

About the author: Carissa Danesi

Carissa Danesi joined the Firm in 2023 as an Associate Attorney representing clients in both commercial and healthcare litigation. Her matters include prosecuting and defending contract and business tort claims, and representing healthcare professionals in State disciplinary investigations and proceedings (OPMC and OPD) and Medicaid Fraud Control Unit investigations.