Gary Ettelman Partner gettelman@e-hlaw.com

Gary Ettelman concentrates on corporate and commercial litigation, bankruptcy, creditors' rights and insolvency matters and commercial real estate. Mr. Ettelman represents businesses of diverse size, industry and category in various corporate and commercial litigation matters. He has served as general litigation counsel to a broad range of businesses including: manufacturers, general contractors, and wholesalers and distributors.

Mr. Ettelman has achieved dramatically successful results for the firm's clients on a national scale. He has successfully litigated cases in federal, state and bankruptcy courts as well as arbitration panels throughout the country involving commercial and corporate litigation, distributor and franchise terminations, sales and secured transactions, product liability, unfair competition, bankruptcy preferences and fraudulent conveyances, construction law, anti-trust, RICO and intellectual property rights. He has lectured frequently on a variety of issues including: product liability, product warranties, distributor terminations, debtor and creditor rights, bankruptcy issues, and secured transactions.

Mr. Ettelman received his Juris Doctorate in 1981 from New York Law School. He attended State University of New York at Cortland, where he graduated cum laude in 1978.

Mr. Ettelman is admitted to the New York State Bar and the United States District Court for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, as well as the United States Tax Court. Mr. Ettelman is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the Nassau County Bar Association, where he co-chairs the Special Joint Committee of Attorneys and Accountants and is a member of the Bankruptcy Committee.

Keith B. Hochheiser Partner khochheiser@e-hlaw.com

Keith Hochheiser concentrates on corporate and commercial transactions with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, manufacturing and distribution, joint ventures and software application and protection. Mr. Hochheiser represents multi-national, national and regional public and privately- held corporations, and large and small business entities.

Mr. Hochheiser offers clients comprehensive legal advice through the planning, negotiating, and drafting of uniquely tailored agreements covering diverse areas. They include: domestic and international transactions, distribution, supply and licensing agreements, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and joint development transactions, e-commerce and intellectual property matters, sales and secured transactions, and tax-free reorganizations and exchanges.

Mr. Hochheiser is a director of a number of multi-national manufacturing and software entities. He is a frequent lecturer at seminars on corporate and commercial transactions.

Mr. Hochheiser graduated from Bentley College in 1987, magna cum laude. He received his Juris Doctorate from Villanova University School of Law in 1990 where he was a member of the Corporate Law Society.

Mr. Hochheiser is admitted to the New York State Bar, Connecticut State Bar and the United States District court for the Southern District of New York.

Mr. Hochheiser is a member of the American Bar Association; Business Law and Taxation Committees, New York State Bar Association; Business Law Section and the Nassau County Bar Association where he was a founding member of and original Co-Chairman of the Joint Special Committee of Attorneys and Accountants, as well as a member of the Multi-Disciplinary Committee.

Raymond J. Averna Partner raverna@e-hlaw.com

Raymond J. Averna concentrates in corporate, commercial and real estate transactions, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and distribution and licensing transactions.

Mr. Averna received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from St. John's University in 1982. He received his Juris Doctorate from St. John's University School of Law in 1985, where he was elected Associate Justice to the Moot Court Executive Board. He received his M.B.A. in Finance from New York University, Leonard N. Stern School of Business in 2000.

Mr. Averna is admitted to the New York State Bar, the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Averna is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Nassau County Bar Association. He is a Past President of the Columbian Lawyers Association of Nassau County, Inc., the Kiwanis Club of Massapequa, Inc. and the Historical Society of the Massapequas.

Philip R. Brookmeyer Associate pbrookmeyer@e-hlaw.com

Philip Brookmeyer brings over 22 years of corporate and commercial transactional experience to the Ettelman & Hochheiser team with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, distribution, and financial loan transactions. As a former Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary of a Fortune 500 company and Vice President-Legal for a commercial airline, Mr. Brookmeyer brings a unique "in-house" management-oriented focus to the firm¹s corporate practice, facilitating our business approach to the practice of law.

Mr. Brookmeyer attended the State University of New York at Albany, where he graduated cum laude in 1976. He received his Juris Doctorate from St. John's University School of Law in 1979, where he was a member of the highly regarded Moot Court Team.

Mr. Brookmeyer is admitted to the New York State Bar, the Connecticut State Bar, and United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Suzanne Brooks Fertig Associate sfertig@e-hlaw.com

Suzanne Brooks Fertig specializes in the practice areas of commercial litigation, construction law and general corporate matters. Ms. Fertig is admitted to practice before the state courts of the State of New York and the United States District Courts for the Southern District and for the Eastern District of New York.

Ms. Fertig graduated cum laude from Brooklyn Law School where she earned a Juris Doctorate degree in May 1995. Ms. Fertig earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from SUNY Binghamton in May, 1992. While at Brooklyn Law School, Ms. Fertig received the American Jurisprudence Award for Excellence in Criminal Law, the Academic Achievement Scholarship, and was selected to become the Associate Managing Editor of the Brooklyn Law Review. During law school, Ms. Fertig served as a mediator for Civil Small Claims Court, County of Kings. She also clerked for the Hon. Philip Segal of the Family Court for the County of Kings where she researched and drafted legal memoranda concerning various issues dealing with child abuse.

Ms. Fertig has written several appellate briefs, and argued numerous motions, for and in both state Supreme and Appellate Courts, and federal District courts, and conducted numerous hearings and inquests in state Supreme and District courts. She is a contributing author of ENFORCING JUDGMENTS AND COLLECTING DEBTS IN NEW YORK for West Publishing, and did the core research and writing for an article entitled HIDDEN LIENS, WHO IS ENTITLED TO WHAT (1997), a paper delivered at the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges in 1998, and for which she received an acknowledgment.