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Arthur M. Handler, a graduate of Queens College (B.S) and Columbia University Law School (LL.B.), has over forty years of experience in commercial, corporate, securities, trademark, employment and general civil litigation.   His practice includes representation in federal and state trial and appellate courts, arbitrations, administrative proceedings, and trade association general representation.  Mr. Handler is an active member of the panel of arbitrators of FINRA and has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association, National Association of Securities Dealers (“NASD”) and the American Stock Exchange.  Articles authored by Mr. Handler on securities and trademark law include “Securities Commentary, the Second Circuit Review – 1977-1978 Term,” and “Securities Commentary, The Second Circuit Review – 1980-1981 Term,” both published in the Brooklyn Law Review, and “Conopco – Consumer Confusion Remains the Touchstone of Trade Dress Infringement,” published in the Trademark Reporter.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Handler was a Partner at Handler & Goodman LLP, Whitman & Ransom and Golenbock and Barell.  Mr. Handler has served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Law Clerk to Hon. Richard H. Levet, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, and Staff Counsel at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Handler is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court; U.S. Courts of Appeals, Second, Third and Federal Circuits; U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern District of New York; U.S. Tax Court; and the New York State Courts.

Mr. Handler is a member of the American Bar Association, New York State Bar Association, Federal Bar Council and Association of the Bar of the City of New York where he has served on the following committees:  Committee on Civil Rights, 1966-1970; Committee on Federal Legislation, 1970-1973; Committee on Federal Courts, 1973-1976; Committee on Nuclear Technology and Law, 1983-1985; Committee on Professional Responsibility, 1991-1994; Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics, 1998-2001; Committee on Judiciary, 2004-2006. He is listed in Who's Who in America, is AV Preeminent Rated by Martindale-Hubbell and is recognized in New York Super Lawyers.

Mr. Handler’s representative clients have included:  Aeronaves de Mexico, S.A. de C.V.; Ark Restaurants Corp.; Bank of Montreal; Chaffin/Light Associates Co.; Corestates Bank, N.A.; Cowan Financial Group; Crayfish Co., Ltd.; Creditanstalt Corporate Finance, Inc.; Cuisinarts, Inc.; Excelsior Funds; Fifth Third Bank; Fintech Advisory, Inc.; First Republic Securities Co., LLC; Gelberg & Abrams; Hitachi Credit America Corporation; Lee Pharmaceuticals; Local 295/Local 851 Pension and Welfare Funds;  Lombard International Assurance Co.; Midway Games Inc.; Multicredit, S.A.; Nationsbank, N.A.; Private Label Manufacturers Association; UBS AG, U.S. Trust Company; Universal Razor Industries, Inc.; Village of Pleasantville; Welbilt Corporation; Williams Hospitality Group Inc.; Winston & Strawn LLP; Wise Metals Group, LLC; WMS Industries Inc. and Worldwide Dreams LLC.

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Mr. Handler’s reported decisions include: 21st Century Diamond, LLC, v. Allfield Trading, LLC, et al., Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, First Department, 2011 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7174;  Excelsior Funds, Inc. and Excelsior Funds Trust v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., 2007 WL 950134 (S.D.N.Y. 2007); Excelsior Funds, Inc. and Excelsior Funds Trust v. JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., 470 F.Supp.2d 312 (S.D.N.Y. 2006); Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith, Inc. v. Wise Metals Group, LLC, 19 A.D.3d 273, 798 N.Y.S.2d 14 (1st Dep’t 2005); KP Permanent Make-UP, Inc. v. Lasting Impression, Inc., 543 U.S 111, 125 S.Ct. 542 (2004) (amicus); Awosting Reserve LLC and Conservancy Partners LLC v. Chaffin/Light Associates, Co., 296 F.Supp.2d 470 (S.D.N.Y. 2003); F.D.I.C. v. Bober, Gimbel, et al., 2002 WL 1929486 (S.D.N.Y. 2002); In re Crayfish Company Securities Class Action, 2002 WL 1268013 (S.D.N.Y. 2002); Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Samara Bros., Inc., 529 U.S. 205, 120 S. Ct. 1339 (2000) (amicus); Yashiro Co. v. Falchi, 1999 WL 568018 (2d Cir. 1999); WMS Gaming Inc. v. Int’l Game Tech., 184 F.3d 1339 (Fed. Cir. 1999); Etkin & Co. v. Patrusky, 235 A.D.2d 300, 652 N.Y.S.2d 710 (1st Dep’t 1997); In re Gimbel, 77 F.3d 593 (2d Cir. 1999), cert. denied, 519 U.S. 814, 117 S.Ct. 62 (1996); Qualitex Co. v. Jacobson Prods. Co., Inc., 514 U.S. 159, 115 S.Ct. 1300 (1995) (amicus); Village of Pleasantville v. Calvert Ins. Co., 204 A.D.2d 689, 612 N.Y.S.2d 441 (2d Dep’t 1994); Amity Leather Prods. Co. v. RGA Accessories, Inc., 849 F. Supp. 871 (S.D.N.Y. 1994), aff’d, 22 F.3d 1091 (2d Cir. 1994); Two Pesos, Inc. v. Taco Cabana, Inc., 505 U.S. 763, 112 S.Ct. 2753 (1992) (amicus); Ratner v. Netburn, 930 F.2d 204 (2d Cir. 1991); Dorli, Inc. v. RGA Accessories, Inc., 136 A.D.2d 465, 523 N.Y.S.2d 103 (1st Dep’t 1988); Cuisinarts, Inc. v. Robot-Coupe Int’l Corp., 580 F. Supp. 634 (S.D.N.Y. 1984); Illinois v. Abbott & Assoc., Inc., 460 U.S. 557, 103 S.Ct. 1356 (1983) (amicus); Williams Electronics, Inc. v. Bally Mfg. Corp., 568 F. Supp. 1274 (N.D. Ill. 1983); In re Grand Jury Investigation of Cuisinarts, Inc., 665 F.2d 24 (2d Cir. 1981), cert. denied, 460 U.S. 1068, 103 S.Ct. 1520 (1983).
 

Eugene Wollan, a graduate of Harvard College (cum laude) and Harvard Law School, has concentrated for forty-eight years on property and casualty insurance claims litigation, commercial insurance litigation, and reinsurance controversies. Mr. Wollan has served as an expert witness and as umpire and arbitrator in insurance and reinsurance disputes, and has testified in Great Britain as an expert witness on New York insurance law. He is certified as an arbitrator and umpire by ARIAS-US.

In a peer survey, Mr. Wollan was named as one of the five leading insurance / reinsurance lawyers in the US and one of the leading twenty in the world, and he was described as "dean of the [reinsurance] bar" and "one of the best insurance arbitrators in the business." He is listed in Who's Who in American Law, Who's Who Legal, and is AV Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell

Mr. Wollan is the author of the treatise Handbook of Reinsurance Law (Aspen Law & Business, 2002). He is co-author with Arthur N. Brook of the chapter on Property Insurance contained in Business Insurance Law and Practice Guide (Matthew Bender, 1989) and with Lawrence S. Greengrass of the chapter on Arbitration of Reinsurance Cases contained in Prosecuting and Defending Insurance Claims (John Wiley & Sons, 1989). He and Jeffrey S. Weinstein prepared the 2010 revisions to the chapter on Property Insurance in Appleman's New York Insurance Law. Mr. Wollan's articles have appeared in Best's Review , ReActions , Reinsurance , Insurance and Reinsurance Law International , International Insurance Monitor , Insurance Counsel Journal , The United States Reinsurance Report , and Insurance Advocate. He is a contributing editor on insurance law of The John Liner Review, and a member of the Editorial Board of Risk Management Reports.

In addition to his role as Senior Counsel at MCWG, Mr. Wollan is a Vice-President of AmTrust International Insurance, Ltd. He is a member of the Property Insurance Committee and the Reinsurance Committee of the International Association of Defense Counsel, and of the International Society of Barristers, L'Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances (AIDA), the Defense Research Institute, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the New York County Lawyers' Association. He has served as Vice President, Executive Committee member, and member of the Board of Directors of AIDA Reinsurance and Insurance Arbitration Society (ARIAS-US), is the Editor of the ARIAS Quarterly publication, and serves on the ARIAS Long Range Planning Committee. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Copenhagen Reinsurance Company. He has lectured at seminars and meetings sponsored by, among others, the Defense Research Institute, Tort and Insurance Practice Section of the American Bar Association, ARIAS-US, Mealey's, Euroforum, Loss Executives Association, Insurance Information Institute, Inland Marine Underwriters Association, Executive Enterprises, Inc., New South Wales Reinsurance Discussion Group, Australian Reinsurance Rendezvous, and Australian Insurance Law Association.

Mr. Wollan is a Colonel in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army Reserve (Retired), and is an honor graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College.