Practice Areas
Outside General Counsel for Domestic Companies and for Foreign Companies Expanding to the US Market
Business and Commercial Transactions
Wills, Trusts and Estates
Real Estate Law
Civil Litigation
Class Action Lawsuits
Matrimonial and Family Law
Intellectual Property
Representative clients include executors and administrators; beneficiaries or distributees / next-of-kin or heirs at law who live in the USA or anywhere in the world; business owners; national furniture company with approximately 200 retail locations throughout the USA; former NBA basketball player; commercial landlords and tenants; purchasers and sellers of real property; fashion designer, global luxury fashion retailer; handbag designer and manufacturer; entity licensees of world famous fashion brands; liquor distributor; lighting rental company; flooring company; bicycle rental company; construction company; architecture and urban design company; design company; web design services company; manufacturer of aromatherapy products; real estate brokers; foreign companies doing business in New York State and others.
Representative matters and clients include those prior to forming Kenworthey Law PLLC.
- Doing business in the USA
- Address wide range of legal and business issues
- Integration of cultural understanding and global business expertise
- Contracts and business transactions
- Risk assessment and risk minimization
- Compliance
- Litigation
- Cross-border transactions
- Help foreign companies navigate complex legal landscape of the US market
- Coordinate, strategize and with attorneys across the US and abroad
Business and Commercial Transactions
- Commercial Contracts - drafting, review, negotiation
- Formation of business entities including corporations, partnerships, LLCs
- Preparation of Shareholder Agreements, Partnership Agreements, Operating Agreements
- Represent and provide advice in connection with owners’ disputes, corporate dissolutions
- Cease and Desist Letters
- Licensing Agreements
- Confidentiality/Non-Disclosure Agreements
- Non-Compete Agreements
Wills, Trusts and Estates
- Probate and Administration of Estates
- Kinship proceedings to establish right to an inheritance by individuals who live in the USA or anywhere in the world
- Representation of Fiduciaries (Administrators, Executors, Trustees)
- Cross-border inheritance work
Real Estate Law
- Purchase and sale of cooperative apartments, condominiums, single and multi-family houses
- Draft, review and negotiate commercial leases (office, retail, triple net and ground leases), subleases and amendments; experience representing landlords and tenants in connection with lease agreements for office and retail spaces, strip malls, shopping centers; advised landlords and tenants in matters involving compliance, negotiation and preparation of modification agreements, extension agreements, lease termination agreements
Civil Litigation
- Representation of individual and business clients in disputes involving contracts, real estate matters, shareholder and partnership disputes, and other issues
- Cease and Desist Letters
- Litigation
Class Action Lawsuits
- Wage and hour class action lawsuits, work with co-counsel
Matrimonial and Family Law
- Pre-nuptial and Post-nuptial Agreements
- Divorce (uncontested and contested)
- Annulment
- Separation
- Custody, Child Support, Maintenance matters
- Post-judgment enforcement or modification matters
Intellectual Property
- Trademark due diligence
- Trademark application
- Trademark registration and post-registration maintenance
Representative clients include executors and administrators; beneficiaries or distributees / next-of-kin or heirs at law who live in the USA or anywhere in the world; business owners; national furniture company with approximately 200 retail locations throughout the USA; former NBA basketball player; commercial landlords and tenants; purchasers and sellers of real property; fashion designer, global luxury fashion retailer; handbag designer and manufacturer; entity licensees of world famous fashion brands; liquor distributor; lighting rental company; flooring company; bicycle rental company; construction company; architecture and urban design company; design company; web design services company; manufacturer of aromatherapy products; real estate brokers; foreign companies doing business in New York State and others.
Representative matters and clients include those prior to forming Kenworthey Law PLLC.