Anthony D. Mancinelli
Partner
amancinelli@hselaw.com
tel: 716.844.3733
fax: 716.853.1617
Tony Mancinelli heads the Firm’s private companies, real estate, commercial and finance practice areas for the Buffalo Niagara region. He has practiced for over 40 years concentrating in all areas of corporate law, not-for-profit organizations, commercial lending, and taxable and tax-exempt bond financing and lease transactions.
- Forming and general counseling to most forms of business entities including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies.
- Business mergers and acquisitions.
- Representing businesses, venture capital firms, and angel investors in private-equity transactions.
- Representing borrowers in complex commercial and commercial lending transactions.
- Business and tax planning for businesses and their owners.
- Extensive general counseling to a large local industrial development agency and representation of the agency in numerous revenue bond transactions including federally tax-exempt transactions and representation of the agency in the preparation and negotiation of various intermunicipal agreements covering a range of matters.
- Representing underwriters, trustees, issuers of letters of credit, and for-profit and not-for-profit borrowers in tax exempt bond financing transactions.
- Representing banks and other institutional lenders in commercial loan and industrial revenue bond transactions.
Prior to law school, Tony was employed as an accountant with Price Waterhouse & Company.
Professional & Civic Affiliations
- Member, Board of Governors, New York State Attorney-Client Fee Dispute Resolution Program (FDRP)
- Member, Business Law Section, New York State Bar Association
- Member and Former Chair, Corporate Law Committee, and Member, Banking Law Committee, Bar Association of Erie County
- President and Director, Western New York Venture Association, Inc.
- Former Member, Capital “Hot Team” of BuffLink, Inc.
- Trustee, Canisius High School, 2009-2015
- Advisory Board and Former Director, Food Bank of Western New York
- Director, Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc., 2007-Present
- Former Treasurer and Director, Bar Association of Erie County
- Arbitrator, Bar Association of Erie County, Fee Dispute Resolution Program
- Mentor and Reactor, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership, School of Management, State University of New York at Buffalo
- Mentor, Canisius College Women’s Business Center
- Former President and Board Member, Kiwanis Club of Buffalo, Inc.
- Former President and Board Member, Kiwanis Club of Buffalo Foundation, Inc.
- Faculty Member, Saturn Club, 2013-2015, Registrar 2013 and Bursar 2014
Honors & Awards
- Recognized by Chambers USA from 2015-2019 in the field of Corporate/M&A
- Named as Best Lawyers® 2018 Banking and Finance Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Buffalo, NY
- Named as Best Lawyers® 2017 Corporate Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Buffalo, NY
- Named as Best Lawyers® 2016 Banking and Finance Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Buffalo, NY
- Named as Best Lawyers® 2013 Mergers and Acquisitions Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Buffalo, NY
- Selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© in the fields of Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Public Finance Law, and Real Estate Law.
- AV Preeminent® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
- Selected to the Upstate New York Super Lawyers list, 2009-2019
- Legal Elite of Western New York, Buffalo Business First /Buffalo Law Journal, 2014-2016 and 2018
- Who's Who in Law, Business First of Buffalo/Buffalo Law Journal, 2012
- Kiwanian of the Year Award, Kiwanis Club of Buffalo, 1990-1991
Admissions
- New York
Education
- Samford University Cumberland School of Law, J.D.
- Georgetown University, B.S., Business Administration