BRONSTER LLP

Stephen L. Ukman

Mr. Ukman is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell.  He served eleven years as in-house counsel for the financial services division of ITT Corporation in Denver, Colorado and St. Louis, Missouri.  After leaving ITT, he was an Associate, Partner, and Of Counsel to several law firms in St. Louis and New York City.  Mr. Ukman has represented clients engaged in or operating information technology start-ups, hotels and restaurants, airport concessions, shopping centers, apartment complexes, transportation, and health care.  He is licensed in New York and formerly in Missouri.  More specifically, his areas of practice include the following:

BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

  • Choice of entity and formation

  • Securities

  • Asset and stock purchase agreements

EMPLOYMENT LAW

  • Employee handbooks

  • Employment and severance agreements

  • EEOC

REAL ESTATE

  • Commercial and residential sale contracts and closings, including condominiums and cooperatives

  • Leases, including shopping centers and airports

  • Real estate development and financing

  • Landlord/tenant

COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS

  • Franchise agreements

  • Trademark registration

IMMIGRATION

  • Family and employment-based visas, including tourist, temporary employment (e.g. H-1B), J-1, green cards, and PERM

  • Naturalization.

  • Asylum and removal proceedings.

ESTATE PLANNING

  • Wills and trusts

  • Living wills

  • Powers of attorney

PRACTICES
  • BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

  • EMPLOYMENT LAW

  • REAL ESTATE

  • COMMERCIAL TRANSACTION

  • IMMIGRATION

  • ESTATE PLANNING

EDUCATION
  • J.D., New York University School of Law, 1974

  • B.S., political science, University of Kansas, 1971

ADMISSIONS
  • New York

  • Missouri (inactive)