About
Bennett & Samios LLP, founded in 1986 and based in New York, NY, is a law firm concentrating on corporate, real estate, and banking matters. The firm represents businesses, banks and business owners, private investors, and other individuals. Its attorneys, Terrence M. Bennett and Gus D. Samios, both trained at large New York City firms. Bennett focuses on corporate transactions, real estate deals, financing, and advising companies on ongoing operations and ownership agreements and disputes; he is conversant in French and Italian. Samios concentrates on banking and corporate transactional work and is active with the New York City Bar’s Art Law Committee and Art Finance and Funds Subcommittee.
Corporate services include purchases, sales, and mergers of businesses; formation and foreign registration of corporations and LLCs; DBAs; joint ventures; shareholder, operating, and partnership agreements; collateralized bank loans; equity financings; negotiated agreements; contract forms; software development agreements; and business owner and contract disputes. The real estate practice covers commercial leases and subleases, assignments and surrenders, purchases and sales of commercial properties and condos/co-ops/brownstones, real estate financings, 1031 tax-deferred exchanges, and FEMA flood map change petitions across New York City, Westchester County, and Long Island. The banking practice focuses on representing banks in lending to domestic and offshore private equity funds and principals, operating companies (including syndicated loans), high net worth individuals (including loans secured by fine art), restructurings, structured finance and credit-enhancement transactions, co-finance lending to fund principals, and insurance premium finance lending.