Commercial Law

A company’s corporate function is the engine that drives a company’s success. Whether accessing capital, seeking an acquisition, maintaining daily operations with ironclad contracts and agreements, or addressing challenges to business survival, having a strategy and a trusted legal advisor to provide legal business counsel is paramount. MHR Lewis' corporate practice has the depth of talent and the skill to handle virtually any business legal need. Representing a wide spectrum of business interests around the world, from global corporations to family-owned businesses to privately held companies, we are an accomplished team focused on solving complex business problems. Our capabilities are broad, and include all of the core services necessary to address our clients’ traditional transaction needs, whether negotiating a cross-border acquisition, representing an issuer in a private placement offering, securing preferred financial credit arrangements for a borrower, or navigating a business restructuring.

We are dedicated to understanding our Clients' businesses and industries and the unique issues they face. Our practices are fully integrated, enabling the lawyers of MHR Lewis to work closely across practices to deliver seamless, sophisticated and pragmatic advice.

Banking and Finance Private Clients Litigation

Banking and Finance

The firm’s banking and finance practice complements both its commercial litigation and private wealth management practices.

MHR Lewis represents regional banks, national associations and loan servicers in connection with commercial and residential secured obligations and liens, including foreclosure, receivership, and bankruptcy proceedings. The firm assists its financial services clients in all aspects of creditor’s rights, from originating loans through workouts, debt restructuring and attendant collateralization needs. The firm works closely with in-house counsel and business originators to achieve the client’s best interest, whether in the context of negotiation or dispute resolution in state or federal court, including bankruptcy proceedings. For more information regarding foreclosure on secured assets and liens, workouts, loan originations and closings, please contact Richard Lewis at 203-244-0668.

Commercial Law Private Clients Litigation

Private Clients

The concerns of today’s closely held business owners and high-net-worth individuals are global—both geographically and in the breadth of legal issues that require attention. Such clients have assets, businesses and family members located worldwide. Effective transfer and income tax planning is just the first step in addressing the management and transmission of holdings that may include companies, real estate, farms and ranches, marketable and non-marketable investments, private aircraft, and artwork and other collectibles. Effective implementation of philanthropic goals is also an important objective for many individuals and families. More than ever, wealthy clients need personal legal advisors who provide sophisticated counsel in a complex, dynamic environment, and who offer direct access to the cross-disciplinary resources of a full-service law firm.

The lawyers and non-lawyer professionals in our Private Client & Wealth Management practice have extensive experience providing creative, customized solutions to our clients’ most sensitive and pressing needs. Our guidance is multidimensional—we help clients make critical decisions that affect important personal, business, tax, civic and charitable concerns.

We marshal and deploy the full resources of the Firm to develop and implement effective financial, business and legal strategies. When disputes with family members, business partners, or tax, regulatory and law enforcement officials arise, we help clients achieve resolution through mediation, negotiated settlements and, when necessary, litigation.

Our clients include US and international business owners, executives, families, family offices, fiduciaries, private trust companies, closely held businesses, private equity fund partners, and investment managers. We provide counsel in a wide range of areas, including wealth transfer and generation-skipping planning, business succession planning, representation of executors and trustees, and private trust company structure, creation and operation.

Commercial Law Banking and Finance Litigation

Litigation

Problems and disputes bring uncertainty and volatility to your business and your life. Managing and resolving a dispute is more than simply filing or defending a lawsuit. The attorneys at MHR Lewis approach litigation in a holistic manner to help our Clients identify the most economic and efficient strategy for resolving the matter. MHR Lewis is more interested in its long-term relationship with its Clients, and its Clients' success, and much less interested in running up legal bills. We ensure that clients understand the strategies available to them, the potential costs of pursuing those strategies, and the key distinction between short-term victory and long-term success.

Our litigation practice includes experienced trial lawyers in the United States, and Germany. MHR Lewis recognizes that the strength and success of our attorneys is founded on a deep understanding of our Clients' business and industry combined with superior knowledge in a broad range of industries and areas of the law.

Our litigation team is made up of experienced practitioners in the US and Germany.

Commercial Law Banking and Finance Private Clients

Richard Lewis - Partner

lewis@mhr-lewis.com

Richard practices in the areas of general commercial and corporate transactions and litigation, and trust and wealth preservation and planning. Richard assists international and domestic individual and institutional clients with business and investment interests in the United States. Prior to forming MHR Lewis, Richard was a partner in a boutique international law firm focusing his practice in the areas of business and commercial law, as well as international trust and wealth planning, and prior to that he spent 10 years at a mid-size general practice law firm in Stamford, CT. Following law school, Richard clerked for the Honorable Antoinette Dupont at the Connecticut Appellate Court. Richard’s clients include companies and individuals based throughout the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, France, Germany, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.

Richard received a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley in 1998, an A.M. from the University of Chicago in 1999, and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2004. He is admitted to the bars of Connecticut, New York, and Wyoming, and he is admitted to practice in the U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, District of Connecticut, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York.

Natasha Lewis

n.lewis@mhr-lewis.com

Natasha is a paralegal, and MHR Lewis’ office manager and bookkeeper. Natasha has extensive experience in litigation support, real estate and corporate transactions, and she manages the annual filing compliance for the firm’s corporate clients. In addition to managing the firm’s finances, Natasha provides bookkeeping services to the firm’s private clients, preparing quarterly and year-end reporting for the clients, family offices, and accounting firms that work with MHR Lewis. Natasha received a B.A. and master’s certificate in accounting at the University of Connecticut School of Business. Natasha is fluent in Russian, English and Ukrainian.

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MHR Lewis Manke Haase Reichelt Rechtsanwälte and MHR Lewis US LLP are separate legal entities that are members of MHR Lewis e.V., a German registered Verein. MHR Lewis e.V. does not itself provide legal services to clients but merely coordinates the activities of its members.

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Each member provides legal services in particular jurisdictions and is subject to the laws and professional regulations of the particular country in which it operates. Each member preserves its clients’ confidentiality and legal professional privilege.

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MHR Lewis e.V. (a German Verein) is an association founded and registered in accordance with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is listed in the association register (Vereinsregister) of the Amtsgericht Charlottenburg under the association number VR 36328 B. MHR Lewis e.V. is represented by its President Dr. Muna Reichelt c/o Hubertusallee 29, 14193 Berlin, Germany.

2. The legal services in Germany are provided by:

MHR Lewis Manke Haase Reichelt Rechtsanwälte
Rechtsanwalt Nicolai Manke
Rechtsanwalt Marcus Haase
Rechtsanwältin Dr. Muna Reichelt, LL.M. (UConn) Attorney-at-Law (NY)
Hubertusallee 29
D- 14193 Berlin
Deutschland
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Processing of Personal Data including its Nature and the Purpose of the Processing:

When calling up our websites at www.mhr-law.com, www.mhr-law.de or www.mhr-lewis.com the browser used on your end device automatically sends data to our website’s server. This data is stored temporarily in a so called log-file. The following data will be collected without any action on your part and will be stored until its automatic deletion:

the internet protocol address (IP address)
date and time of the access
the browser types and versions used
the operating system used by the accessing system
the website from which an accessing system reaches our website (so called referrers)
the internet service provider of the accessing system

This data will be processed for the following purposes:

correct delivery of the content of our website
comfortable usage of our website
analyzation of the security and stability of the information technology system
other administrative purposes

The legal basis for the processing of the data is Art. 6 Section 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Our legitimate interest derives from the aforementioned purposes of the data collection. We do not use the collected data to draw any conclusions about you.

Transfer of Data

There will be no transfer of personal data to third parties except for the following purposes:

We will only transfer your personal data if:

you have given you explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO,
the transfer is necessary for the purposes of the assertion/enforcement of legitimate interests pursued by us except where such interests are outweighed by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of you which require protection of personal data in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO
in case of a legal obligation by which processing of personal data is required in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 S. 1 lit. c DSGVO, and
it is legally permissible and necessary for the provision of any services or goods in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 S. 1 lit. b DSGVO.

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The cookies contain information that will be produced in connection with your end device. This does not mean however, that we receive direct knowledge of your identity.

We use cookies in order to optimize the usage of our website for you. We use session cookies in order to detect that individual pages of our website have been visited by you already. They will be deleted automatically after you have left our website.

The data generated by the cookies are necessary for the purposes mentioned in order to assert/enforce our or third parties’ legitimate interests pursued in accordance with Art. 6 Section 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

Most browser systems accept cookies automatically. You may however configure your computer in a way that will either not allow for cookies to be saved or there will be a note before a new cookie is accepted. The complete deactivation of cookies may lead to you not being able to use all our website’s functions.

Data Subject Rights

You have the following rights:

according to Art. 15 DSVGO you have the right to obtain from us free information about your personal data stored at any time and a copy of this information. You may especially obtain information about the purposes of the processing; the categories of personal data concerned; the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organizations; where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period; the existence of the right to request rectification or erasure of personal data, or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject, or to object to such processing; the existence of the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source; the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and envisaged consequences of such processing for you.
You have a right to obtain information as to whether personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organization. In such a case you have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards relating to the transfer.
According to Art. 16 DSGVO you have the right to obtain without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning yourself and to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
According to Art. 17 DSGVO you have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning yourself without undue delay, and we have the obligation to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies, as long as the processing is not necessary: The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed, you withdraw your consent to which the processing is based and where there is no other legal ground for the processing, you object to the processing and there are no outweighing legitimate grounds for the processing; the personal data have been unlawfully processed, the personal data must be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the we are subject.
According to Art. 18 DSGVO you have the right to obtain from the controller restriction of processing if the accuracy of the personal data is contested by you; the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request instead the restriction of their use instead; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of the processing but they are required by you for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; or if you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 Section 1 of the DSGVO pending the verification whether our legitimate grounds outweigh yours.
According to Art. 20 DSGVO you have the right to receive the personal data provided by you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. Furthermore, you have the right to have personal data transmitted directly from us to another controller, where technically feasible and when doing so does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
According to Art. 7 Section 3 DSGVO you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time to the processing of personal data concerning yourself forbidding us to process any data in the future based on the initial consent; and
according to Art. 77 DSGVO you have the right to complain about us at the competent regulating authority. Generally, you may turn to the regulating authority of your usual residence or of our place of business.

Right to Object

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to you particular situation, at any time, to processing of personal data concerning yourself, which is based on lit. e or f of Art. 6 Section 1 of the DSGVO. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

We will no longer process the personal data in the event of the objection, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process the personal data for that purpose.

In order to exercise the right to object, you may directly contact us at: reichelt@mhr-law.com