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Adam Michael Levy is a New York barred attorney with more than 19 years of experience litigating commercial and civil matters venue throughout New York’s Federal and State Courts.  His comprehensive litigation experience is complemented by a proficiency in structuring, negotiating and closing all manner of commercial and real estate transactions.  

Mr. Levy was born, raised, and educated in New York.  He began his career associated with Shaw Licitra Gulotta Esernio & Schwartz, P.C., a Garden City firm established by his late Uncle, J. Stanley Shaw – a one-time candidate for New York City Mayor.  During his 3 year association, Mr. Levy focused his practice on sophisticated bankruptcy and commercial litigation matters.  With the knowledge, experience and skills gained from his time working at Shaw, Mr. Levy then joined Simmons Jannace & Stagg P.C. (a firm later restructured as Simmons Jannace LLP), where he enjoyed marked success representing Fortune 100 retailers, banks/lenders, municipalities, motor vehicle finance companies, health clubs and utilities in lawsuits involving real estate disputes, employment disputes, construction/development contracts, bank regulation, creditors’ rights, landlord-tenant issues, finance leases, stock transfers, corporate dissolution, discrimination, mortgage fraud, and fire loss.  

Five years later, Mr. Levy accepted an offer to practice in the litigation department of Goldberg Weprin Finkel Goldstein, LLP, an established real estate firm headquartered in New York’s Times Square.  While at Goldberg Weprin, Mr. Levy’s practice focused on commercial, real estate, and bankruptcy litigation, as well as landlord-tenant disputes. The clients Mr. Levy represented included some of Manhattan’s largest real estate developers, purchasers and sellers, commercial landlords and tenants, mortgage and promissory note purchasers, and bankruptcy trustees.  

Upon the completion of the first ten years of his career, Mr. Levy established Adam Michael Levy, P.C. in 2013.  Mr. Levy built a thriving commercial and real estate litigation practice from the ground up over the following nine years of his career.  On January 1, 2023, he merged his practice with Andrew Goldenberg’s to create Levy Goldenberg LLP. 

Throughout his career, Mr. Levy has argued cases before some of New York’s highest courts, including the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, New York’s Court of Appeals, and the Appellate Division, as well as more local venues that include the Supreme, Civil, District and Village Courts located throughout New York City’s boroughs and downstate counties.  Some of the decisions and results Mr. Levy has obtained for his clients over the years can be reviewed on the Decisions page of this Website.