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Becker, Glynn, Muffly, Chassin & Hosinski LLP is a full service, small firm that offers top-level legal services. From its beginnings, Becker Glynn has built an international reputation by recruiting and training lawyers from the best universities and providing clients with close, individualized attention, without the cost and duplicative staffing associated with large, multi-office law firms.

Becker Glynn is perhaps unique among firms of its size in combining domestic and international practice. We represent domestic and foreign businesses in a wide range of industries, including the manufacturing, mining, agriculture, trading, transportation, technology, pharmaceutical, healthcare, real estate, finance, insurance and service industries. We routinely represent multilateral and bilateral international development finance institutions that provide debt and equity investments in developing countries and emerging markets. We have extensive experience in cross-border litigation and disputes. Our private client work frequently involves the representation of foreign individuals and transnational families investing in the United States and numerous foreign countries.

Becker Glynn offers a full range of services. We provide general corporate counseling, regulatory advice and transactional representation of great variety, including mergers and acquisitions, finance, securities, real estate, employment and executive compensation matters. We prosecute and defend lawsuits in federal and state courts from pre-trial through appeal and arbitrate claims before AAA, UNCITRAL, FINRA and other established arbitral bodies. We appear in bankruptcy courts in both adversarial and reorganization proceedings. We plan and administer multinational and domestic estates. Many businesses and families engage the Firm for its experience in international transactions and planning, particularly in representing clients doing business or investing outside their home countries.

George Benaur, the founder and owner of the firm, was born and raised in Moscow, Russia (former Soviet Union) and then immigrated to the United States in 1988. He received his B.A. in English from Lafayette College in 1999, professional degree in acting from the London Academy of Music and Drama in 2000, and his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in 2004.

Mr. Benaur specializes in domestic and international business litigations and is a recognized trial advocate, speaker and writer. He represents clients worldwide in litigations, general counsel matters and investigations. George has served as lead counsel on many of the significant and complicated civil litigations both domestically and internationally. He regularly handles unique matters calling for the creative, sensitive and artful resolutions and works with a network of trusted counsel around the world, especially in Russia and the United Kingdom to offer global solutions to his clients.

Benaur has extensive experience representing individuals and international corporations in complex litigations, pre-litigation dispute resolution, investigations, and contract drafting and negotiation, both domestically and internationally. He has had back-to-back successes in a broad range of high-stakes cases. For example, George was co-counsel in the representation of BAE Systems Controls in a high-profile bankruptcy of A123 Systems Inc. in Delaware, resulting in $28.5 million valuation of the client’s proof of claim, successful negotiation for post-petition product supply and intellectual property rights. He also served as counsel for BAE Systems in a three-year litigation in Los Angeles federal court over a research and development agreement for a new, highly sophisticated positioning device in the drilling industry, involving extensive expert analysis of complex mechanical engineering and market issues involving the oil and gas industry, fact investigation around the country (Connecticut, New York, Texas, California), expert depositions and reports, summary judgment briefing and various other motions. In that case he presented liability and damages analysis during the course of several court ordered mediations, resulting in settlement in case involving allegations of over $100 million in damages. George also served as counsel in the $2 billion restructuring of the Brazilian meat producer Independencia and briefed, argued and obtained orders for recognition of a Brazilian reorganization proceeding and for permanent injunction enforcing the Brazilian reorganization plan in Chapter 15 proceedings in S.D.N.Y. Bankruptcy Court. Some other clients for whom George has handled complex cases include major pharmaceutical conglomerates, international banks and high-net worth individuals.

George was recognized as among the “New Leaders of the Bar,” formerly known as the “40 Under 40,” by the New Jersey Law Journal and also has been selected as the New Jersey Super Lawyers® Rising Star (which represents only the top 2.5 percent of lawyers in New Jersey) during the past five years. George’s practice is currently principally based in New York and Princeton, with affiliations and strong working relationships with firms and advisors in Moscow and London.