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Law Office of Gordon Platt, P.C.
Specializing in Commercial Law, Cyberlaw, Trusts & Estates, Media and Investigations
PRACTICE
AREAS
Commercial Law
We work with clients on wide range of matters ranging from intellectual property to employment, mergers and acquisitions and arbitrations. The firm is experienced in handling asset and stock purchases for clients on both buy and sell sides. Gordon Platt works closely with clients to negotiate the best deal possible and then to incorporate those terms in formal agreements. The firm’s wide ranging skill set is well suited to clients facing legal issues on an ongoing basis and we have been retained by a number of companies as their outside general counsel.
Cyberlaw
We work with both companies and individuals on cyberlaw and privacy, handling matters that range from complex compliance issues to instances of cyber harassment. For more information on cyber capabilities, please visit our affiliated website for Platt Law.
Trusts & Estates
We have extensive experience in developing and executing wealth preservation strategies for individuals of all backgrounds and levels of income. Over the years we have worked with high-net-worth individuals and families. The firm optimizes taxation strategies to enable not only the preservation but also the growth of assets ensuring their availability for future generations
Due Diligence
Due diligence comes into play in a wide range of legal issues, including mergers and acquisition, employment agreements and other types of contracts. It takes a blend of research, interviewing skills and persistence to compile a due diligence report or profile. As a former investigative journalist, Gordon Platt brings his skills and experience to bear in the pursuit of information desired by his clients.
Early Stage Companies
Investigations
We are well acquainted with the issues facing startups and early-stage companies. As a founder and entrepreneur Gordon Platt is familiar with many of these issues from personal experience. He has extensive experience dealing with a wide variety of startups and investors from conferences he developed as the founder of Gotham Media, a business development consultancy.
Asset Protection
The assets at stake in transnational litigation, insolvencies and divorce can be difficult to untangle and sometimes even more challenging to locate. Whether by happenstance or design, and it is often design, funds may be secreted away in foreign jurisdictions, complex webs of companies and in difficult to trace assets. The tracing of assets is a skill Gordon Platt honed in years as investigative producer at ABC News.
Reputation Management
The management of reputational and privacy issues is an interdisciplinary practice involving research, crisis management and administrative law. In many cases the firm’s clients discover that they have become the victims of identity theft or fraud only after the damage is done. Our office has the experience and skills to ensure that it can undo and correct the damage once it’s done and to prevent future intrusions and attacks. The best offense is, however, an active defense and the firm works closely with clients to install those safeguards that will help to ensure that their privacy and security is protected and never compromised.
We can find the facts in cases of misappropriation, misconduct and malfeasance. Gordon Platt led investigations for years as an Emmy Award winning producer for ABC News and then as the founder of a documentary production company. He was awarded a Silver Gavel by the American Bar Association for his investigation of corrupt law enforcement in Texas as a result of which 25 wrongly accused defendants in drug cases were released from prison. During his career as a journalist, Gordon also spent time reporting on undercover arms networks and international money laundering.
Media Law
In a rapidly changing media landscape, we are on top of the latest changes in technology and the law. Our firsthand experience in media production ensures that it knows what matters the most to media producers and is able to communicate those interests and priorities through the documents and agreements produced for its clients. Perhaps most importantly, the firm can flag potential legal issues well before they become problems. The Law Office of Gordon Platt, P.C. handles all issues related to media and the law. These include talent relations and contracts, pre-publication review, licensing and intellectual property. The firm deals with the business and legal side of media, entertainment and news so that its clients can focus on producing quality content.
THE VISION
Having been an Emmy Award winning investigative journalist, an entrepreneur and a marketer as well as a lawyer, I bring a different perspective and a slightly different tool box to my representation of clients. It's not a one size fits all approach, because, perhaps first and foremost, I have been a client.
GORDON PLATT, ESQ.
Gordon Platt’s legal practice focuses on working with companies as an outside general counsel, providing services on a wide range of legal matters, from mergers and acquisitions to cyber security and investigations. In conjunction with this practice, Gordon has developed an expertise in trusts and estates. Gordon is admitted to the bars of New York and Massachusetts.
Gordon advises companies and organizations in the rapidly evolving fields of cybersecurity and privacy law, working with them to achieve compliance with international, federal and state regulations as well as industry best practices. He also reviews corporate policies and agreements to ensure that clients are protected in the event of a cyber breach or intrusion.
As a former investigative producer for ABC News based in New York and Washington, DC, Gordon puts his experience to work in conducting internal and anti-fraud investigations. As a producer, he received Emmy and Columbia Dupont Awards, and as an independent producer and director was the recipient of a Silver Gavel from the American Bar Association for his coverage of corrupt law enforcement in Texas. His investigative work in Texas was a significant factor in the pardoning of 35 people who had been wrongly convicted of serious drug offences in one town.
Gordon received his J.D. from Harvard Law School. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors), where he majored in Russian and Government and received a Reynolds Fellowship for postgraduate study as well as the Woodbury Law Prize. He received an M.Sc. in Russian History and Politics from the London School of Economics where he was a recipient of the Leonard Schapiro Scholarship.
Gordon lives with his wife and a large dog in Chappaqua, New York. He is the father of three grown sons to whom he provides unsolicited advice on a regular basis.
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