Hofheimer Gartlir & Gross appoints Votano as counsel

Hofheimer Gartlir & Gross, LLP (HGG) has appointed Bret Votano, Esq., as counsel concentrating on corporate and real estate finance, mortgage lending and leasing. Votano joins HHG from Riemer & Braunstein LLP, where he had a practice of asset based lending, acquisition finance, REIT financing, mortgage warehouse loans and real estate finance. Previously Votano was with Paul Hastings LLP's Finance and Restructuring group in New York representing lenders and borrowers in syndicated loan transactions, workouts, restructuring, distressed debt and corporate lending. Earlier in his career, he was with Levi, Lubarsky & Feigenbaum working on commercial litigation, workout and corporate lending. He is a graduate of St. John's University School of Law, where he was the Notes and Comments editor of the New York Litigator, the journal of the Commercial and Federal Litigation Section of the New York State Bar Association. "We are pleased to welcome Bret as a very capable addition to our practice," said Gerald H. Morganstern, managing partner with HGG. "His extensive knowledge and experience of real estate law and financing law, as well as mortgages and leasing, will be of inestimable value in the services we provide to our clients." Hofheimer Gartlir & Gross is a 130 year old law firm whose specialties include real estate, corporate, trusts and estates and bankruptcy law. The firm is based at 530 Fifth Avenue in New York and has 24 attorneys.