Atty. Peter A. Mahler
Peter A. Mahler is a litigator focusing on business divorce cases involving dissolution and other disputes among co-owners of closely held business entities, such as limited liability companies, corporations, and partnerships.
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Peter A. Mahler is a business and litigation attorney based in New York, New York, practicing at Farrell Fritz PC. Educated at New York University (J.D., 1982). Recognitions include Best Lawyers in America — Commercial Litigation (2026). Serands clients in New York, NY and the surrounding metropolitan area.
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- Peter A. Mahler is a litigator focusing on business divorce cases involving dissolution and other disputes among co-owners of closely held business entities, such as limited liability companies, corporations, and partnerships
- Peter represents both control and non-control owners, often involving family-owned businesses
- Frequently counseling business owners prior to litigation, he advises them of their rights and also assists in designing and negotiating an amicable separation between parties
- Peter’s counsel helps avoid litigation by means of a buy-out, sale, or division of business assets
- Peter has decades of litigation experience prosecuting and defending business divorce cases at the trial and appellate levels, as well as in mediation and arbitration proceedings
- A thorough and collaborative professional, Peter works closely with appraisers for the valuation of business interests in appraisal contests, such as elective buy-outs in dissolution proceedings and dissenting shareholder appraisals following cash out mergers
- With a longstanding focus on business divorce, both for his clients and as a prolific author and lecturer, Peter is widely recognized as an authority on dissolution and valuation proceedings involving closely held business entities
- He frequently lectures on diverse business divorce topics at continuing education programs for lawyers, judges, and appraisers, and a number of his published articles are cited in judicial opinions and law reviews
- Peter publishes a widely followed blog called New York Business Divorce
- With more than 800 articles, the blog covers all aspects of dissolution and dissenting shareholder proceedings, involving limited liability companies, corporations, and partnerships, business valuation, and more
- He also produces the podcast Business Divorce Roundtable, on which he interviews experts in the field of business divorce, including lawyers, law professors, and business appraisers
- Peter is the author of the “Practice Commentaries” in McKinney’s Consolidated Laws of New York Annotated for the Limited Liability Company Law and the Revised Limited Partnership Act
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Practicing law in New York. Legal matters in New York are governed by state-specific rules of civil and criminal procedure, statutes of limitations, and substantive law. Cases originating in New York are typically filed in the local municipal court or the appropriate New York state district court, depending on subject matter and amount in controversy. An attorney licensed in New York brings working knowledge of local procedural deadlines, judicial practices in this andnue, and the substantive law that applies to cases brought here. Out-of-state attorneys generally cannot represent clients in New York courts without local counsel or pro hac vice admission.
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