Owen D. Kurtin PLLC | Attorney at Law

Owen D. Kurtin PLLC is a New York City-based law firm founded in 2008 by Owen D. Kurtin, an attorney in practice since 1984.  The firm’s practice focuses on corporate, commercial, and regulatory representation for both mature and early stage companies, investors and lenders in the Communications & Media, Satellites & Space, Information Technologies and Biotech & Life Sciences sectors.

The firm also represents producers, performing arts venues, writers, artists, and performers in the financing, production and distribution of live, filmed, written and recorded works in the Entertainment/Performing Arts sector.

Our practice is international.  We have in-country transactional experience throughout Western and Eastern Europe; the Middle East and Persian Gulf; and Central, South and East Asia.

We recognize that our clients are seeking new ways to achieve their business goals and expect legal services to be as innovative and goal-responsive as they must be. We also recognize that while our clients seek a closer alignment of the attorney-client relationship with their business needs and risks, they also expect and require objective and disinterested legal advice from that relationship.  The balance of that alignment and objectivity is key to the service we seek to provide.

To those ends, we offer alternative billing arrangements, which may include success- or partial success-based fees for transactional matters such as mergers and acquisitions and financings; tiered flat fee billing arrangements for corporate, commercial and regulatory matters; and retainers for recurring or continuing baskets of services.

We also engage in carefully selected pro bono and public service work.  Past projects have included assistance to children’s rights and relief organizations, obtaining political asylum for persecuted African and Asian refugees, representation of performing and graphic artists and filmmakers in producing their work and protecting their rights, and assistance to the digital communications infrastructure of a major metropolitan performing arts center.