Professional Experience
Tony Mancinelli heads the firm's private companies, real estate, commercial and finance practice areas for the Buffalo Niagara region. He has practiced for over 30 years concentrating in all areas of corporate law, not-for-profit organizations, commercial lending, and taxable and tax-exempt bond financing and lease transactions.
· Extensive general counseling to a large local industrial development agency and representation of the agency in numerous revenue bond transactions including federally tax-exempt transactions and representation of the agency in the preparation and negotiation of various intermunicipal agreements covering a range of matters.
· Representing underwriters, trustees, issuers of letters of credit, and for-profit and not-for-profit borrowers in tax-exempt bond financing transactions.
· Forming and general counseling to most forms of business entities including corporations, partnerships, and limited-liability companies.
· Representing businesses, venture capital firms, and angel investors in private-equity transactions.
· Business mergers and acquisitions.
· Representing borrowers in complex commercial and commercial lending transactions.
· Business and tax planning for businesses and their owners.
· Representing banks and other institutional lenders in commercial loan and industrial revenue bond transactions.
Prior to law school, Tony was employed as an accountant with Price Waterhouse & Company.
Professional and Civic Activities
· Member, Corporate Law Committee, New York State Bar Association
· Member and Former Chair, Corporate Law Committee, and Member, Banking Law Committee, Bar Association of Erie County
· President and Director, Western New York Venture Association, Inc.
· Former Member, Capital "Hot Team" of BuffLink, Inc.
· Trustee, Canisius High School, 2009
· Director, Food Bank of Western New York, 2001-2007
· Director, Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc., 2007-
· Former Treasurer and Director, Bar Association of Erie County
· Former Mentor, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo
· Former President and Board Member, Kiwanis Club of Buffalo, Inc.
· Former President and Board Member, Kiwanis Club of Buffalo Foundation, Inc.
Honors and Awards
· Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® in the field of Corporate Law
· Selected for inclusion in Super Lawyers® 2009-2010 in the fields of Business/Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, and Bonds/Government Finance, 2011 in the field of Business/Corporate
· Who's Who in Law, Business First of Buffalo/Buffalo Law Journal
· Kiwanian of the Year Award, Kiwanis Club of Buffalo
· AV Rated by Martindale Hubbell