Bryan Van Cott
Real Estate Attorney
Contract Attorney
Considered one of the best North Fork real estate lawyers as well as one of the best contract lawyers on Long Island, Bryan was invited to apply and subsequently admitted into our group in December of 2021.
Bryan has been indispensable to many of our members' businesses as well as assisting their personal real estate and other legal transactions. We have found Bryan to be exceptionally knowlegable and responsive and the feedback we hear from local businesses who he's worked with is always positive.
His expertise includes initial start-up, mergers and acquisitions including stock and asset sales, day-to-day business and legal consulting needs, corporate housekeeping, and the negotiation and drafting of a wide variety of contracts and business agreements.
In the past 25 years since graduating from Cornell Law School, Bryan has developed a general practice with a strong emphasis on business law, corporate and commercial transactions, and real estate matters.
He has closed numerous mergers and acquisitions that have ranged from a purchase or sale of a small business to a complex $58M sale of assets to a subsidiary of Tyco International (US) Inc.
In addition to his experience drafting and negotiating asset purchase, stock purchase, and merger agreements, Mr. Van Cott has considerable experience negotiating and drafting a variety of other business agreements including employment, shareholder, confidentiality, non-compete, license agreements, and commercial real estate leases.