Galant and Toole join Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP

According to Long Island's business law firm Meltzer, Lippe, Goldstein & Breitstone, LLP (Meltzer Lippe), Manhattan attorney Jeffery Galant has joined its tax and trusts and estates departments. A graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Galant earned his law degree at Columbia University Law School, and his L.L.M. in Taxation from New York University Law School. Meltzer Lippe's tax and trusts and estates practice encompasses a wide variety of tax areas: wills and trusts; family limited partnerships; dynasty trusts; business succession planning; international estate planning; testamentary trusts and intervivos trusts; installment sales; charitable organizations and their for-profit affiliates; estate gift and generation-skipping transfer taxes; personal tax planning; life insurance and charitable trusts; estate tax motivated partnership and asset planning; restructuring; post mortem estate planning and probate of estates. Meltzer Lippe, is also expanding its bankruptcy/creditor's rights division, marked by the addition of prominent attorney Kevin Toole to that practice area. "Kevin Toole is an experienced attorney skilled in the representation of businesses and financial institutions on cases pertaining to Chapter 11 proceedings," said Lew Meltzer, managing partner of the Mineola law firm. Meltzer, Lippe's bankruptcy/creditor's rights practice includes the representation of secured and unsecured creditors, trustees and other parties including investors and official committees before United States Bankruptcy Courts; bankruptcy litigation; motion practice; purchase and sale of assets in bankruptcy; representation of lending institutions in debt restructuring and dischargeability actions; fraudulent conveyances, preferences, substantive consolidation and equitable subordination; insolvency; creditors' rights; asset recovery and prosecution of commercial foreclosure actions. For more information visit meltzerlippe.com.