MR. VAN COTT IS A PARTNER OF TWOMEY, LATHAM, SHEA, KELLEY, DUBIN AND QUARTARARO LLP

Biography:

Mr. Van Cott has a general practice with an emphasis on corporate and commercial transactions, business law, real estate matters and civil litigation. He has assisted business clients with, among other things, initial start-up and acquisitions, with their day-to-day business and legal consulting needs, and with the sale of their businesses. He has closed numerous mergers and acquisitions that have ranged from a purchase or sale of a small business to a complex $58M sale of assets to a subsidiary of Tyco International (US) Inc. In addition to his experience drafting and negotiating asset purchase, stock purchase and merger agreements, Mr. Van Cott also has considerable experience drafting and negotiating a variety of other business agreements including employment, shareholder, confidentiality, non-compete, license agreements, and commercial real estate leases. Mr. Van Cott also offers his clients counsel on a wide variety of real estate matters whether residential or commercial in nature. His experience includes purchases and sales of real estate, lender financing, refinances, landlord-tenant matters, and assistance with land use, zoning, and environmental issues. In addition to business and real estate law, Mr. Van Cott assists clients in successfully resolving civil disputes. His litigation experience includes successfully litigating a wide variety of claims in state and federal courts involving civil rights, contract, construction, employment, landlord-tenant, insurance, real estate, trade secret, and unfair competition claims. Mr. Van Cott is admitted to practice law in the States of New York and New Jersey and is a member of the New York State and Suffolk County Bar Associations.

Education:

After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Philosophy from Syracuse University in 1993 (magna cum laude) Mr. Van Cott went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from Cornell Law School in 1996 where he was a member of and bench brief editor for the Moot Court Executive Board and an editor for the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy. He has also studied at the Cornell Law School/L’université De Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) Institute of International & Comparative Law in Paris, France.