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Lawyer Overview

Ambrose M. Richardson, III, after more than thirty years of practice, combines extensive knowledge of corporate and other business transactions with vast experience from litigation, arbitration and mediation in more than fifty venues.  Mr. Richardson's business experience includes public offerings, private placements, venture financing, secured financing, mergers and acquisitions and reorganizations, as well as contracts of all types.  He was involved in the creation of the documentation for the first pass-through securities, the first high-speed facsimile machines and the microprocessors that revolutionized personal computing.  As a litigator, Richardson has litigated issues involving securities, commodities, acquisitions, insurance and employment law.  He established precedents in the areas of pleading securities claims, conversion, group life insurance, freeze-out mergers, indemnification and attorneys' fees.  In arbitration, he has won several seven-figure awards for clients in the areas of futures trading, accounting and corporate dissolutions.  After twenty-five years with his own firm in Rockefeller Center, Richardson joined Solomon Pearl Blum Heymann & Stich LLP as counsel in 2003.  He is currently a member of the American Bar Association (Sections on Business Law and Probate and Property Law), New York State Bar Association (Sections on Business Organizations and Commercial and Federal Litigation), Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction) and a mediator for the New York Supreme Court, New York County Commercial Part.

Areas of Practice

• Business Law
• Arbitration and Mediation
• Litigation
• Business Organizations
• Public Offerings
• Private Placements
• Venture Financing
• Secured Financing
• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Reorganization
• Contracts

West Practice Categories

Arbitration, Mediation, Business & Commercial Law, Contracts, Mergers & Acquisitions, Secured Transactions, Business Organizations, Franchising, Reorganizations, Estate Planning, Litigation & Appeals

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association, Sections on Business Law and Probate and Property Law (Member)
• New York State Bar Association, Sections on Business Organizations and Commercial and Federal Litigation (Member)
• Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction (Member)
• New York Supreme Court, New York County Commercial Part (Mediator)

Address

40 Wall Street, 35th Floor
New York, NY 10005

Phones

(212) 267-7600

Faxes

(212) 267-2030

Emails

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Websites

http://www.solpearl.com