Beam & Astarita

Formed by the merger of the practices of corporate and securities lawyers with a white collar criminal attorney, Beam & Astarita, LLC is a boutique law firm offering corporate, securities and commerical litigation services to small and medium sized corporations, with a particular emphasis on the financial services industry.

As securities lawyers, the firm's lawyers focus on the representation of clients in securities related matters. Our lawyers represent broker-dealers, clearing firms, hedge funds, and other financial service companies in all apects of their business, from drafting contracts, to compliance audits and regulatory investigations, to federal court litigation and securities arbitration matters.

Our lawyers also represent individuals in securities related matters, including investors as well as financial professionals including brokers, advisors, traders, and analysts. Our representation is nationwide and inculdes all aspects of the broker-firm relationship, and regulatory, compliance, corporate and related matters.

Our securities lawyers provide additional legal representation for financial firms in startup operations, compliance audits, corporate finance, regulatory audits, investigations, examinations and all litigation matters, including arbitration before the NASD and NYSE.

Our securities lawyers represent customers, brokers and firms in securities disputes, primarily in mediations and NASD and NYSE arbitrations.

The firm's lawyers focus on the representation all types of business entities in the New York Metropolitian area, in their general corporate matters. Our attorneys provide advice and counsel on general corporate operations, joint ventures, employment contracts, corporate finance matters, and regulatory matters affecting their business operations and regulatory concerns.

Our corporate and securities work also includes the representation of private and public corporations, limited liability companies and partnerships in their routine business dealings, as well as vendor, shareholder and commercial litigation.