What's Unique About Kleinberg Kaplan?

Our Client-Centered Focus

Clients come first at Kleinberg Kaplan. Understanding people, their needs and their business is our firm's top priority. We establish personal, long-lasting relationships with our clients, built on trust and mutual respect. We take great pride in having served many of our clients for many years, some for over three decades. Every client is a client of our firm, and not just a client of one attorney.

Value-Added Service

We respond to our clients' needs quickly, efficiently and cost-effectively. Our size and versatility enable us to combine our business acumen and sophisticated legal skills with the personal approach of a trusted advisor.

In a period where law firms disappear, whole departments leave one firm and join another and clients are, in essence, bought and sold, we see ourselves as more than a fee-and-expense-sharing business. We enjoy our unique legal practice with its creative and intense client focus, as we have for more than 38 years, since our founding in 1971. We are determined to add value to each of our client engagements, to provide solutions for our clients' legal and business challenges and to help them avoid risks and achieve their goals.

Our Diversified Client Roster

While the firm acts as special counsel to a number of substantial public companies and financial institutions, the majority of our clients are private investment funds and successful privately-held businesses. These businesses and their owners need the same level of legal advice that a public company requires, plus an understanding of the unique problems facing a closely-held business.

Our Practice

Based in New York City, our firm has an outstanding reputation in the transactional, business, tax, estates, real estate, litigation and securities arenas, representing clients in a wide range of local, state, national and international matters.

We are well-positioned in a variety of "niches," including:

• Hedge Funds and other private investment funds, including funds pursuing investor activism and direct investments
• Private Client Tax and Estate Planning
• Real Estate Funds, Joint Ventures and Development
• Mortgage Financing and Commercial Leasing
• Litigation, Risk Management and Arbitration
• Middle-Market Mergers and Acquisitions
• Executive Employment Contracts
• Security Holder Rights Enforcement
• Creditors' Rights and Bankruptcy
• Bank Debt and Claims Trading