James Fornari
Partner

Jim Fornari has more than thirty-five years experience as a trial lawyer in New York and numerous federal trial courts throughout the United States. He specializes in Intellectual Property, product liability defense and commercial litigation, emphasizing pharmaceutical and medical appliance defense in federal and state cases. Representative of Mr. Fornari's broad litigation experience, he has served as Lead counsel to the largest U. S. manufacturer of industrial materials handling equipment, lead trial attorney for Baxter International in the silicone breast implant cases and trial counsel on Commercial and patent litigation in the ATM litigations and Teller card encryption litigation (Lemeison) In addition to his extensive litigation experience, Mr. Fornari has counseled corporate and real estate clients and has been actively involved as a principal and counsel to a number of businesses in structuring financing transactions, negotiation acquisitions, real estate and asset transfers and representing entities in public and private securities offerings.

As a member of Gersten Savage's Corporate Department, Mr. Fornari advises small and medium sized companies on corporate finance, disclosure matters, corporate governance, and private and public offerings, including equity offerings, high-yield, and convertible offerings.