Practice Description

Litigation (including trials and appeals), arbitration and mediation in federal and state courts, AAA, FINRA and JAMS as well as general counseling in the areas of business disputes and corporate and securities transactions, SEC and SRO enforcement, securities violations, shareholder disputes and freeze-outs, directors, officers and partners fiduciary duties, corporate governance, finance, banking, commercial and corporate transactions, tax shelters, real estate and company valuations, company dissolutions and reorganizations, employment, real estate, unfair competition and trade secrets and white-collar defense. Mr. Zito is the only defense attorney in the United States to have tried to verdict a securities class action brought under Section 14 of the Securities Exchange Act, in the wake of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Mr. Zito serves on the mediation panel of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County Commercial Division. He often acts as a private mediator to help litigants resolve disputes. Mr. Zito has also served as Chairman of the Corporate Governance Committee of a public company and is active in counseling clients in this area