Our Expertise Category: Sectors

Our Artificial Intelligence group is led by a core team of lawyers who are well aware of the large scope of issues presented by AI.

While our AI-minded attorneys focus on developments in AI, they also specialize in privacy, cybersecurity, intellectual property, litigation, and regulatory compliance. This cross-departmental team works together to help clients safely adopt high-value AI applications, mitigate potential legal and reputational risks, respond to regulatory inquiries, and defend AI-related claims. We have handled a seminal matter involving the investment vehicles used for AI investing, assisting with the related corporate structure, tax, and regulatory issues. The matter involved global investments, with funding from Texas, Colorado, and Connecticut.

Our Health and Fitness Practice Group provides comprehensive legal services to businesses in the fast-growing health and fitness industry.

Whether you are a startup looking for guidance on state-specific regulations, or an established company seeking counsel on corporate litigation or transactional matters, our team of highly knowledgeable attorneys is here to assist. Our attorneys are not just experts in law; they are experts in the health and fitness industry. Paul Fenaroli, a key member of our team, co-authored Law for Fitness Managers and Exercise Professionals (2020), a guide that has become invaluable for professionals in the field. Our practice group combines this deep industry knowledge with extensive legal expertise to provide targeted, effective legal services.

Contact us to learn more about how our Health and Fitness Practice Group can help your business navigate the complex legal landscape.

Pastore Attorneys have represented some of the highest profile artists and performers.

Pastore LLC and its attorneys have represented some of the most famous and successful music artists, including Curtis Jackson a.k.a “50 Cent” in connection with claims arising from defamation and slander and Aliaune Damala Badara Akon Thiam a.k.a Akon in connection with investments in sustainable businesses.

The Firm also represents promoters and artists in connection with distribution agreements, including agreements with UMG recordings, Inc. DBA Varick Street, and one of its divisions “Def Jam” involving Initial Masters and Option Masters. Firm partners also have experience with Broadway matters, including New York’s rules for raising capital for Broadway shows and Broadway production, director and actor contracts.

Our attorneys have worked on matters critical to the core business of the world’s largest insurance companies.

We have represented one of the world’s largest insurance companies in connection to a bank’s improper lending of a billion dollars in securities held by the insurance company in a stock loan program. We have also represented an international insurance company in connection with the settlement of a large California state court case. We have handled ARIAS arbitrations in the United States and Bermuda. We have also successfully negotiated on behalf of clients against insurance companies on many disputes involving computer systems failures, D&0 coverage, and E&0 coverage, employment issues, and business interruption insurance.

Our attorneys have commercial and residential real estate experience, representing a range of clients. 

Our commercial real estate experience includes the acquisition and sale of office buildings, apartment buildings, retail properties and shopping centers, warehouse and industrial properties; commercial real estate financing and refinancing; the acquisition and sale of companies with real estate holdings, including restaurants and retailers; commercial real estate leasing involving office, medical, retail and industrial space; landlord-tenant relations, zoning matters, and developer bankruptcy claims.

In addition, our construction law experience that includes drafting and negotiating construction contracts for owners, tenants and contractors for new construction and renovations for both commercial  and residential properties; construction dispute resolution; placement and release of mechanic’s liens; zoning issues resulting from new construction or renovations; and obtaining building permits and certificates of occupancy.

Further, our attorneys have residential real estate experience, which includes the purchase and sale of single-family homes, condominiums and co-ops; closing residential financing arising from the purchase of residential property and mortgage and co-op refinancing.

Our experience representing clients in a variety of real estate litigation matters including contract disputes, foreclosures (representing lenders and mortgagors), commercial and residential evictions, title disputes and construction disputes. We are also record counsel to homeowners and condominium associations.

The attorneys at Pastore have experience representing and servicing content creators.

We have extensive experience in representing and servicing entertainment start-ups in many legal areas—such as those focused on online content, social media channels, and games—to develop successful businesses. These legal areas include corporate formation, corporate governance, intellectual property registration and administration, contract review, drafting and negotiation, as well as facilitating the procurement and closing of all rounds of investments.

Our attorneys have also represented a major rap star as well as other famous entertainers.

Our attorneys have represented national, regional and local banks in connection with disputes over lending practices and enforcements of rights as secured lenders.

Our attorneys have also handled large claims in bankruptcy for financial institutions.

We regularly represent both large and middle-market companies in DECD loan transactions, and have assisted our clients in obtaining $60 million in such financing in the last two years. We have negotiated a DECD (Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development) loan for a New York-based company moving 500 employees to Connecticut. Our former partner is the Lt. Governor of Connecticut and actively assisted in developing this practice while at the firm.

Pastore attorneys acted as counsel to a large Boston-based bank in connection with an SEC action entitled Securities and Exchange Commission v. Reserve Management Company, et al. in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. That action arose out of the demise of the Primary Fund, a money market fund that held $785 million in debt securities issued by Lehman Brothers. As a result of Lehman Brother’s bankruptcy, the Primary Fund experienced a “run on the bank,” and therefore suspended redemptions on September 16, 2008. The Primary Fund came under SEC administration. The SEC administered the distribution of $46.1 billion in Fund assets and at the time of the action, $4.5 billion remained to be distributed. The drop in value and the suspension of redemptions led to multiple lawsuits against the Reserve Fund. The Boston-based bank served as a custodian to the Primary Fund and Pastore attorneys assisted it to make sure that the funds held by the bank as custodian remained under an SEC order to provide for indemnification by the Primary Fund, as required by contract.

We are national counsel to both domestic apparel retail companies as well as international apparel manufacturers.

Our attorneys’ apparel industry experience is broad, including service to small retailers expanding into national chains, celebrity designers, and entrepreneurs launching apps. We have also served apparel industry clients in matters of stopping counterfeits, calculation of equity and restructuring of employment.

The attorneys at Pastore have extensive experience in representing multi-national software and technology companies at the local and federal level.

This experience includes a multitude of actions, including claims of misappropriation of technical and proprietary information, actions predicated upon trade libel and unfair trade practices, as well as common carrier telecommunications disputes.

We regularly represent software companies in protecting their code and programs, negotiating, development agreements, and in disputes over licensing fees and ownership. We recently favorably settled a large Federal Court action in the Southern District of New York involving the ownership of source code brought by our developer client against a Fortune 500 company. Our attorneys have written articles on these issues that have appeared on the front page of the New York Law Journal. In addition, having litigated some of the largest disputes in Federal Court in New England for the last several years, our attorneys have regularly represented CLECs in disputes with ILECs in connection with carrier charges and interconnections.

We have also represented many technology start-ups in connection with friends and family and seed funding, as well as venture capital funding.