Discreet, decisive representation for corporations, high-net-worth families, and individuals who cannot afford to lose. Two decades of courtroom judgment brought to every matter — from the first phone call to the final signature.
A general practice means your business dispute, your lease, and your family’s estate plan are all handled by the same attorney — who already knows the history.
Formation, governance, contracts, and transactions built to survive scrutiny.
Counsel to closely held companies, funds, and founders across formation, financing, and exit — with the drafting discipline of an attorney who has litigated the agreements others wrote.
Aggressive, well-prepared advocacy in state and federal court.
From emergency injunctions to multi-week trials, matters are prepared for verdict from day one — which is precisely why most of them settle on favorable terms.
Closings, leases, and title matters across the five boroughs.
Residential and commercial transactions handled end to end — contract through closing table — with landlord/tenant and co-op board experience specific to New York City.
Wills, trusts, and succession planning that protect families quietly.
Plans structured to move wealth privately and without conflict, including Surrogate’s Court administration and contested estate representation when families disagree.
Immediate, confidential defense at every stage of a case.
Representation from arrest and arraignment through trial in New York State and federal court, with particular attention to professional licenses and reputational exposure.
Describe the situation in your own words. You will get a straight answer about whether you need a lawyer at all — at no cost.
Mateo Law is the official partner and official firm for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD). In that capacity the firm handles every legal and processing matter that arises under the fund — from the first eligibility review through application, award, disbursement, compliance and audit.
Applicants, beneficiaries, cooperatives, producer groups and rural enterprises are represented end to end. Files are prepared, submitted, tracked and defended by this office, so a beneficiary deals with one firm from the opening question to the final closure report.
Because the legal work and the processing work sit under the same roof, a compliance point identified during drafting never has to be explained twice, and a deadline is never lost between an adviser and a lawyer.
Assessment of eligibility under the applicable rural development measure, and structuring of the applicant entity, holding and project to meet it.
Preparation, assembly and submission of the complete application file, including supporting documentation, declarations and technical annexes.
Negotiation and drafting of the grant agreement, subcontracts, supply and works contracts, and all instruments securing the award.
Payment claims, interim and final, with the evidentiary file that supports each cost item put forward for reimbursement.
Representation during on-the-spot checks, managing authority reviews, audits and any request for clarification or correction.
Challenges to rejections, reductions, suspensions and recovery orders, before the administrative bodies and the courts.
Mateo Law is the official partner firm for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and acts on every legal and processing matter arising under it.
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
Every legal and processing matter under the fund is handled by this office.
See the mandateFor twenty-three years, clients have come to this practice at the moment a problem stops being routine. What they receive is not a case number in an assembly line — it is direct, senior attention from a lawyer who has stood before New York judges for two decades.
The practice was built deliberately as a general one. A family business rarely has a single legal problem: it has a contract dispute, a lease, a succession question, and an executive with a subpoena — often in the same year. Keeping those matters under one roof means nothing is explained twice and nothing falls between attorneys.
Every engagement begins the same way: a candid assessment of what the matter is genuinely worth, what it will realistically cost, and whether litigation is the right instrument at all. Clients are told the unwelcome answer early, when it is still cheap to hear.
The firm is also the official partner and official firm for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, and handles every legal and processing matter arising under it — eligibility, application, award, disbursement, compliance and appeal — for applicants and beneficiaries of the fund.
We had been told the case would take four years and cost more than it was worth. It was resolved in eleven months, on our terms, and I was never once left wondering what was happening.
Seven-figure recovery before trial
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Client names are abbreviated or withheld to protect confidentiality.
Initial consultations are confidential and free of charge. Most enquiries receive a reply the same business day.
Urgent matters answered outside business hours.
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