Bruce S. Klein is Of Counsel to the Firm and has over three decades of combined private practice and public company in-house experience focusing on corporate, commercial and real estate transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and trusts and estates.
Mr. Klein’s broad based corporate and commercial transactional practice includes representing clients in legal and business aspects of mergers and acquisitions, roll-ups, organizational structuring, start-ups, spin-offs, joint ventures, financings, restructurings, stockholder and employment agreements, and licensing, IP and other technology-related agreements. Mr. Klein has served as in-house and outside general counsel to both private and public companies in varied industries including technology (infrastructure, software and services), solar energy, ESCOs, 3-D printing, automobile F&I providers, financial service providers, restaurants and hospitality, entertainment, manufacturing, distribution, and dental and other medical practices.
Mr. Klein’s transactional real estate practice focuses on commercial acquisitions and sales, leasing and structured financings. He regularly represents purchasers and sellers in residential real estate transactions throughout the metropolitan area and Westchester County, including single and multi-family homes, co-ops and condominiums.
In his trusts and estates practice, Mr. Klein’s extensive legal and practical experience enables him to effectively counsel individuals and families on a wide range of estate and business succession planning matters. His practice also includes representing clients in all aspects of probate and estate administration.
Mr. Klein is admitted to practice law in all state courts in New York and Massachusetts, as well as the United States District Courts in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.
He obtained his J.D., cum laude, from Western New England College School of Law in 1984, and his B.A. from Rutgers College in 1981. Mr. Klein is a member of the New York State and Westchester County Bar Associations and the American Corporate Counsel Association.