Services

Empower your decisions with trusted legal expertise

We empower your legal decisions with trusted expertise. We offer personalized guidance and strategic solutions across various legal challenges, ensuring you navigate with confidence and clarity. Whether dealing with ordinary corporate issues and transactions, the IRS, or other federal or state regulatory agencies, we’re committed to your success and peace of mind. Trust us to be your ally, to guide your passage through simple or complex problems, and find manageable paths forward.

Corporate Transactions

As an in-house attorney for a construction company for more than ten years, Mr. Farrell is intimately familiar with garden variety corporate transactions, including contracts, leases, partnership and venture capital agreements, sales and purchases, liens, bank financing agreements and requirements, and disputes with subcontractors and government agencies.

Criminal Defense

As a former federal prosecutor, Mr. Farrell has conducted hundreds of criminal investigations and tried many criminal cases. He will counsel you on your case, the evidence and the best course forward. His experience includes both white collar and street crime. He is an expert in the area of fraud, having once held the position of Chairman of the Board of Regents of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners.

IRS Disputes

Let us represent you before the IRS or any state taxing agency. Our experience includes ten years of working with the IRS on tax cases, defending clients who are the subject of criminal or civil actions, state sales tax audits and other state taxing agency claims We have litigated claims for clients with the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance. Mr. Farrell has the highest tax education qualification, an LLM in taxation from New York University, and has taught federal taxation on the college level. Take the worry out of such anxiety producing events by letting us put our expertise to work for you. If we can’t improve your position and reduce the taxes an agency says you owe, you don’t pay!

Disputes With Other Regulatory Agencies

If you are involved in a regulated business, like banking, securities, or real estate, for example, you might have once found yourself on the wrong side of an investigation. Mr. Farrell has worked for more than ten years for the New York State Department of Financial Services and the Federal Reserve Board in Washington DC on enforcement matters, and have conducted disciplinary hearings on an agency’s behalf. We know how to approach dealing with regulators who you will have to continue dealing with in the future. If you’ve heard from such an agency, the SEC or a state securities regulator, let us represent your interests. For us, these are familiar waters.

Education

C.W. Post College-B.S., Accounting, 1978 magna cum laude

Fordham University Law School 1984-JD

New York University, 2002 LLM (Masters of Law) Taxation

Other

Certified Public Accountant, 1981, NY

Chairman, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

Chairman of the Board of Regents

US Department of Justice, Tax Division -1988-1989

Assistant US Attorney, Northern District of Georgia, 1989-1997, collaborating with the IRS on enforcement matters

C.W. Post College

B.S. Accounting, 1978 magna cum laude

Fordham University Law School 1984 J.D.

New York University 2002

LLM (Masters of Laws), Taxation

Other

Certified Public Accountant 1981, NY

Chairman, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners

Chairman of the Board of Regents

US Department of Justice, Tax Division

Collaborated with the IRS on Enforcement Matters