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Phil is a consultant in our corporate team.
His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, commercial real estate, general business practices, and corporate law. He provides counsel to a diverse group of domestic and international businesses and individuals, in connection with transactions large and small. Primarily, Phil's clients include privately held businesses, across a variety of industries, and the entrepreneurial individuals and families who have nurtured them. To that end, he integrates his advice with the efforts of the firm's wealth-planning lawyers to provide maximum added value, at all times rooted in a solid understanding of each client's individual and business goals.
In connection with his clients' substantial real estate holdings (industrial, office, retail, residential, etc), Phil provides comprehensive advice on, among other things, acquisitions and sales, like-kind exchanges, construction, leasing and management. Additionally, Phil's experience in representing both borrowers and lenders in commercial financings helps him navigate his clients safely through all phases of the loan process.
Phil has advised both individuals and companies of all sizes on various employment matters, including the hiring, firing and promoting workers at all organizational levels, the granting of options, warrants, phantom stock, and other executive compensation packages, the negotiation and enforcement of employment and termination agreements, confidentiality, nondisclosure and non-competition agreements, and the creation and implementation of employee handbooks and related policies.
Prior to joining the firm in 2002, Phil was Vice President and General Counsel of a publicly-traded telecommunications company. In 2012, he was named one of _Connecticut Magazine'_s Top Young Attorneys In Connecticut.
Recent recognition
Track record
Family-owned real estate investment company
Represented a family-owned real estate investment company, in connection with its purchase of a 10-acre property and 115,000 sf retail building and related net lease in Texas.
Real estate development company
Represented real estate development company in its re-development and financing of a multi-parcel medical office campus in Connecticut.
Apartment complex sale
Represented a real estate development company, in its sale of a 124-unit apartment complex in Connecticut.
Commercial property
Advised a family-owned entity on the purchase and triple-net lease of commercial property in Tyler, Texas, upon which a new retail rental store was constructed.
Lease negotiation
Completed a successful lease negotiation for a prominent longstanding culinary institution located in Greenwich, CT. The new lease includes, among other things, an expansion into additional adjacent space for a new take-out business.
Commercial real estate client
Represented a commercial real estate client in connection with the purchase of a high-end retail property located in the commercially-central area of Westport, Connecticut.
Commercial property
Closed the sale of commercial real property containing a major US wholesale chain and a restaurant on behalf of a family-owned real estate company. Withers attorneys also represented the client in the settlement of related litigation.
UK-based luxury group
Represented a UK-based luxury group of private hotels, restaurants, and private members' clubs, in its acquisition, financing and organizational restructuring of a multi-parcel hotel property in Miami Beach, Florida.
Talks
Inside the Entrepreneurial Mind, Rye Brook, NY, host
'My Countries: Advising the Internationally Connected Client', New Rochelle, NY, January 2015, speaker
'Startups 101: A Roadmap to Successful Entrepreneurship", Stamford, CT, October 2014, speaker
'Boot Camp for the Inbound Foreign Entrepreneur', Greenwich, CT, May 2014, speaker
'Securing the Staff', Protecting the Principals Seminar Series, Greenwich CT, September 2011, presenter
Inside the Entrepreneurial Mind Monthly Breakfast Series, Greenwich CT, host
'Embracing the Downturn', Entrepreneurs Organization Fall Event (Greenwich), November 2008, panelist
'Greenwich Entrepreneur' Radio Program, WGCH 1490 AM (Greenwich), co-host
'A Clear View - Achieving Transparency Using Family Office Practices in Your Family Business", Joint Presentation with GenSpring Family Offices, LLC (New Haven, Greenwich), June 2009, panelist
'Real Estate Power Moves - Creating Opportunity Out of Crisis", Inc. Magazine Business Owners Council Event (Manhattan, Long Island, Greenwich), June 2009, panelist
Admissions
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1997
State of Connecticut, 1999
Registered Foreign Lawyer in the UK, 2005
State of New York, 2006
Education
Hamilton College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, B.A.
University of Pennsylvania Law School, cum laude, Order of the Coif, J.D.
Languages
- English
Memberships
Pennsylvania Bar Association
Connecticut Bar Association
Key dates
- Year joined: 2002