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Douglas A. Kellner
USA
Law Firm, City

Kellner Herlihy Getty & Friedman LLP New York, New York
Kellner Herlihy Getty & Friedman, LLP is a boutique law firm with a substantial practice group experienced with financial fraud and asset recovery, complex commercial litigation, creditors rights matters, both domestically and internationally, Chapter 15 Insolvency, recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, receivers and receiverships, and counterfeit product litigation. Our attorneys have an international backgroup, with attorneys who are fluent in French, Korean, Farsi, Russian, Italian and Spanish. The firm also coordinates complex multi-jurisdiction litigations in many countries including Liechtenstein, Israel, Panama, the British Virgin Islands, France, Switzerland and Canada, utilizing a network of carefully selected investigators, attorneys and analysts located around the world. Our experience has enabled us to build relationships we can utilize to quickly put in place a team of professionals throughout the world depending on our client’s needs.

Kellner Herlihy Getty & Friedman's partners have been practicing together for decades. Their long careers serving the area means clients obtain a level of service few other law firms can offer. The firm's experience, unity and stability ensure that clients with a commercial, real estate or business matter in New York will be working with an experienced team of lawyers that will see them through the entire legal process from start to finish.The attorneys of Kellner Herlihy Getty & Friedman hold themselves up to the highest standard of professionalism and dedication to client service. With AV-rated counsel (AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review RatedSM by Martindale-Hubbell®)—the most prestigious rating an attorney can receive from his peers for legal ability and ethical conduct—and this standard serving as the firm's performance benchmark for each and every attorney, the firm's lawyers have the talent and knowledge needed to properly serve individuals, entities and corporations, large and small alike. Their drive and passion for the law is visible in their dedication and in the care all their attorneys show in their work year after year.

Kellner Herlihy Getty & Friedman LLP is a New York City law firm devoted to serving the needs of businesses, individuals and communities throughout the area. The firm's talented associates have many unique skills, allowing the firm's practice to grow, prosper and evolve in tandem with clients' needs and goals.

The attorneys of Kellner, Herlihy, Getty & Friedman have the experience, intellect and creativity needed to provide assistance in even the most complex legal matters. Clients come to the firm for quality representation in matters involving: Commercial Litigation, International Fraud, Commercial Transactions, Bankruptcy and all facets of Real Estate transactions and litigation.

Douglas A. Kellner has been practicing law for more than 35 years. AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review RatedSM by Martindale-Hubbell®, Mr. Kellner received his Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School and graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is currently Co-Chair of the New York State Board of Elections and has also served as counsel to the New York State Assembly Banking Committee and the New York City judicial selection committee. His primary areas of practice include international asset recovery, real estate, bankruptcy and commercial litigation focusing on asset recovery.

Bar Admissions
State of New York, 1978
United States Supreme Court, 1982
Second Circuit Court of Appeals, 1979
United States District Courts for Southern and Eastern Districts of NewYork, 1978
United States District Courts for Northern District of NewYork, 2010

dak@khgflaw.com

khgflaw.com

Address

470 Park Avenue South, 7^th Floor
New York, New York 10016, USA

Telephone

+1 (212) 889-2121

Languages

English, Spanish, French, Russian, Farsi and Italian.

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Thomas Vandenabeele

USA
Born and raised in France, Thomas P. Vandenabeele received a Juris Doctorate and a Master of Laws from the University of Lille 2, France, and his LL.M. from Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis. He represents individual and corporations including a variety of French entities in commercial litigation matters in the United States and is president of the French American Bar Association. He also serves as General Counsel of the French Consulate General in New York (“Avocat-conseil aupres du consulat general de France à New York”). He is also an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law and a Visiting Professor at EDHEC Business School, Lille, France.

Mr. Vandenabeele represents French businesses and individuals in their commercial litigations in the United States. He also obtains recognition and enforcement of foreign money judgments in New York.

Mr. Vandenabeele practices complex commercial litigation with a focus on bank fraud, money laundering, investigations and hidden asset recovery, which cross international jurisdictions to include, France, Switzerland, the British Virgin Islands, Panama, and Liechtenstein. Mr. Vandenabeele has been part of a team that obtained a $264 million judgment in a high-profile matter, representing French interests that allege loan monies and collateral were fraudulently stolen using a web of offshore entities and accounts. Mr. Vandenabeele also frequently lectures on international litigation topics.

Mr. Vandenabeele is an Adjunct Professor at Fordham University, School of law, where he teaches the class of "doing business in the E.U." He is also a Visiting Professor at EDHEC Business School, Lille, France.

Education
J.D. (“maitrise”), Universite de Lille II, Lille, France 1999
Master of Laws (“D.E.A”) concentrating on the European Construction issues, Universite de Lille II, Lille, France 2001
LL.M, Indiana University School of Law, Indianapolis

Bar Admissions
New York State, 2006
US District Court for the Southern District of New York
US District Court for the Eastern District of New York

Affiliations
Since 2008, Mr. Vandenabeele has been serving as President of the French American Bar Association (www.faba-law.com") that he co-founded in 2007.
He is also a Board Member of the Committee of French Speaking Societies (http://www.cafusa.org), of Union des Francais de l’Etranger (http://www.ufe.org/); as well as a member of American Society of Le Souvenir Francais (http://www.souvenirfrancais-usa.org/). And of l’Association des Cadres de Reserve Francais aux Etats Unis (ACREFEU) (http://acrefeu.org/).