Mr. Stern serves as general outside counsel to several of the largest privately owned companies on Long Island. He also provides counsel to corporations, entities and business ventures of all types and sizes in connection with finance matters, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, as well as general corporate and business matters. Mr. Stern has a very active real estate syndication and private equity fund practice.

He graduated from Duke University in 1995, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, in English and Drama. He studied at the Loyola University Rome Center for Liberal Arts and the University College of London in 1993. In 1998, Mr. Stern earned his Juris Doctor, with honors, from the George Washington University Law School. He was awarded the Corpus Juris Secumdum Award for Excellence in Contracts.

Mr. Stern published, “China: A Most Favored Nation Or A Most Feared Nation: The PRC’s Latest Anti-Crime Campaign and a Possible United States Response,” which appeared in the George Washington Journal of International Law and Economics, Vol. 31:1 (1997). He is admitted to practice in the State of New York.

Active in community affairs, Mr. Stern donates his time to such charitable causes as the American Heart Association and the Long Island Mentoring Partnership.

E-mail: rstern@certilmanbalin.com
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