Anthony D. Mancinelli
Retired Partner
amancinelli@hselaw.com
tel: 716.844.3733
fax: 716.853.1617
Tony Mancinelli practiced for over 40 years concentrating in all areas of corporate law, not-for-profit organizations, commercial lending, taxable and tax-exempt bond financing and lease transactions.
- Formed and counseled most forms of business entities including corporations, partnerships, and limited liability companies.
- Business mergers and acquisitions.
- Represented businesses, venture capital firms, and angel investors in private-equity transactions.
- Represented borrowers in complex commercial and commercial lending transactions.
- Business and tax planning for businesses and their owners.
- Provided extensive general counseling to a large local industrial development agency and represented the agency in numerous revenue bond transactions including federally tax-exempt transactions and represented the agency in the preparation and negotiation of various intermunicipal agreements covering a range of matters.
- Represented underwriters, trustees, issuers of letters of credit, and for-profit and not-for-profit borrowers in tax exempt bond financing transactions.
- Represented 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.
- Former Trustee, Canisius High School
- Advisory Board and Former Director, Food Bank of Western New York
- Former Director, Volunteer Lawyers Project, Inc., 2007-2018
- 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.
- Former Faculty Member, Saturn Club
Honors & Awards
- Recognized by Chambers USA from 2015-2019 in the field of Corporate/M&A
- Named as Best Lawyers® 2021 Mergers and Acquisitions Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Buffalo, NY
- 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, 2009-2020
- Legal Elite of Western New York, Buffalo Business First /Buffalo Law Journal, 2014-2016 and 2018
- Who's Who in Law, Buffalo Business First/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