Henry Mascia was quoted in an article published in Business.com, “What to Do if ICE Serves Your Business With a Form I-9 Audit.” The article discusses how immigration has increased I-9 audits by more than 300 percent under the Trump administration and what to do if a business owner finds themselves in this situation.

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Kate Heptig has been featured in Long Island Business News’ Who’s Who – Women in Professional Services Section.

A partner in the Firm’s Corporate, Health Services and Tax Practice Groups, Kate focuses on transactional tax law and executive compensation; general business law relating to corporations, LLCs and partnerships; and ERISA/employee benefits matters.

Kate regularly advises

New York, NY – August 20, 2018 – Evan H. Krinick, Managing Partner of Rivkin Radler LLP, has announced that Eric D. Fader has joined the firm as a Partner.

Eric D. Fader has joined the firm’s Health Services, Corporate and Privacy, Data and Cyber Practice Groups.

Eric has represented healthcare providers and other corporate

Stella Lellos and Robert Kern closed the acquisition of a tire-recycling business located on the East End of Long Island.  Lellos and Kern represented the purchaser, a prominent waste management company, in the acquisition of the assets of the seller. This was the client’s first foray into the tire-recycling industry.

Stella Lellos closed a $2 million financing transaction in which a prominent Long Island investor made a cash investment in a startup company that tours holograms of deceased musical artists.

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The firm’s client, a pharmaceutical manufacturing and packing company, hired a Regulatory Affairs Manager who had been sponsored for an H-1B visa by a previous employer.  Because the validity of an H-1B visa is specific to the sponsoring company, the firm filed an H-1B transfer petition and proved to the satisfaction of the United States

Henry Mascia obtained a TN visa for a computer systems analyst from Canada.  The foreign national had received and renewed a TN visa in the computer systems analyst category for many years.  But on his last attempt to renew, the officer at the port of entry denied his application.  The firm ascertained the basis for the

TN visas are for highly skilled Mexican and Canadian professionals.  TN visas, which are issued pursuant to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), are only available for certain professions, but they offer employers tremendous flexibility due to the expedited application process at the border and the potential for indefinite renewals.

In this case, foreign

Chris Kutner shared his perspective with HealthLeaders Media on the planned merger of Cigna with pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts.

His comments are informed both by his work at Rivkin Radler and his experience as general counsel at Vytra.

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Evan H. Krinick, Managing Partner of Rivkin Radler LLP, has welcomed four new attorneys, Christina M. Bezas, David I. Gise, Robert C. Kern Jr. and Amanda S. Reynolds to the firm.

Christina M. Bezas, of Long Beach, N.Y., is an Associate in the Insurance Fraud Practice Group. Christina prosecutes complex civil lawsuits under the federal