Practice Areas

Outside General Counsel for Domestic Companies and for Foreign Companies Expanding to the US Market

• 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. 

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