Daniel S. Brecher, Esq.
Dan Brecher joined Scarinci Hollenbeck ten years ago, after being the head of the
Securities and Investment Banking Department of a 250-attorney New York City
firm and later running his own boutique securities and investment banking law
firm.
His experience ranges from serving as general counsel of New York Stock Exchange and
NASD/FINRA member brokerage firms to representing companies in hundreds of public
and private securities offerings, and advising institutional and high net worth investors. In
addition, Mr. Brecher is counsel of record in several leading published decisions
establishing precedents in securities, business and education law. He served for several
decades as a Court-appointed mediator in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of
New York, and as a mediator, arbitrator and lecturer at FINRA.
Mr. Brecher is a nationally known author and lecturer who has written and presented on
topics relating to private and public securities offerings, and other corporate, securities
and investment banking matters. He has appeared on CNN and in numerous other
national and local television and radio media outlets. His articles have appeared in
Barron's, The American Law Institute -American Bar Association's The Practical
Lawyer, Boardroom Reports, Bottom Line/Personal and in a number of other
professional and general circulation magazines and newspaper publications. He authored
Chapter 9 of"Securities Offerings: New York Practice Guide: Business and
Commercial," and co-authored Chapter 24 "New York Forms of Jury Instruction,
Officers' and Directors' Liability," both published by Matthew Bender & Co.
Mr. Brecher has been a featured speaker at FINRA Arbitrator Skills Programs, and his
chapter on customer claims against brokers was published by the Practicing Law
Institute. He was also the lead speaker and co-author of a continuing legal education
course handbook "Buying and Selling a New York Business" for the Lorman Education
Services program.
For ten years, Dan was Chairman, and is currently Vice Chairman, of the Board of
Directors of Birch Family Services, Inc., a major provider of early childhood special
education schools in New York City. Birch is also a leader in providing residences,
community programs and residences and job training and job placements for young
adults on the autistic spectrum.
Education Fordham University School of Law (JD, 1969)
City College of the City University of New York (BA, 1964)
Dan Brecher
Chair, Securities and Investment Banking Group
Scarinci Hollenbeck, LLC
dbrecher@sh-law.com
(917) 861-5057
