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Phil focuses on achieving and maintaining his clients’ competitive advantage. Beginning with counseling the business client concerning its legal rights and available remedies, Phil proceeds to negotiate or litigate with the client’s adversary in command of both the law and  facts. By maintaining a focus on the client’s economic interests throughout the discovery, pretrial and trial phases of litigation, Phil has successfully resolved numerous business disputes placing his clients ahead of the competition.Phil regularly appears before state and federal courts in New York as well as arbitration and alternate dispute resolution forums. Phil has represented clients in disputes over their contract and financial relationships, shareholder and partnership rights, business organizations and dissolutions, claimed errors and omissions, antitrust and trade practices, intellectual property, executive compensation, employment, construction projects, and insurance coverage.. Practice Area: Business Litigation Securities Fails; Other Securities Disputes; Member/Member and Customer/Member Securities Arbitration; Dissolution; Environmental Defense; Service Warranty Disputes; Construction; Antitrust; Employment Law; Executive Compensation and Catastrophic Personal Injury Defense.

As chair of our Corporate & General Business and Taxation groups, Howell Bramson works in a number of our practice groups. On the estate planning side, he has been involved in planning complicated estates, with an emphasis on estates involving business and real estate interests. On the corporate side, he and other lawyers at the firm help organize startup companies and represent numerous corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies, including those owned by foreign corporations and individuals. On the tax side, he gets involved in the more complex tax problems associated with mergers and acquisitions, S corporations, partnership transactions, real estate transactions, workouts and bankruptcy, international transactions, and estate planning. Howell also has diverse experience in the area of international taxation, including United States and New York taxation on foreign companies doing business in the United States and/or assets of such companies.. Howell is also a frequent lecturer before professional groups on the subject of tax planning and related issues.. Howell has received a peer review rating of AV®Preeminent on Martindale-Hubbell®. Howell has also been recognized as a New York Super Lawyer in the fields of Estate Planning/Tax and Corporate Business.