Our Services/Practice Area

Financial Institutions and Real Estate

The Firm venture capital funds and private equity funds on a wide variety of matters. The Firm provides representation with respect to federal and state regulatory issues, real estate transactions (including acquisition, development, construction and permanent financing, as well as restructuring and foreclosures). The Firm prides itself on the two-way nature of many of its client relationships, particularly the Firm’s concerted efforts to direct business opportunities to its clients.

International Transactions

Many of the Firm’s clients are foreign entities seeking to do business in the United States or American entities seeking to do business abroad. The Firm’s attorneys assist these clients with the design and execution of high-profile business transactions and with international project and corporate financing and financial restructurings.

Business Litigation

The Firm’s skilled trial lawyers provide clients with significant depth of experience in litigating sophisticated, complex, and high-profile business disputes. Firm attorneys have successfully litigated matters in a wide range of industries, including real estate, corporate, and medical. Our attorneys have represented clients in a broad range of national and international forums, as well as in federal and state courts and arbitral tribunals.

Complex Dispute Resolution

The Complex Dispute Resolution Practice focuses on resolving disputes through a combination of approaches, including litigation, negotiation, legislation, mediation, and arbitration – often in the context of complex, multiparty disputes. The Firm continuously explores cutting-edge initiatives, settlements, legislation, and other strategies to resolve significant and often company-threatening potential liabilities. The Firm has substantial and successful experience in resolving disputes concerning insurance coverage, bankruptcy, employment, and product liability issues.

Insurance Coverage

Rheem Bell & Mermelstein LLP assists large and small policyholders in enforcing coverage under their liability and other insurance policies. The Firm has had extraordinary success in protecting corporate policyholders’ rights in virtually all areas, including patent infringement liability, liability for sexual discrimination or harassment, and directors and officers’ liability.