Mr. Portin is a Senior Partner at Damon Morey LLP, practicing in the firm’s Business and Corporate Department for more than 15 years.

Mr. Portin has extensive experience in business, contract and corporate law, and a wide variety of related legal matters. His clients include large publicly-traded corporations, multi-state franchisees, local businesses and individuals. Mr. Portin counsels his business clients, supervises their company interests and advises them on negotiations. He is also experienced in structuring and negotiating acquisition, finance, commercial lease, joint venture, license and other commercial transactions.

Mr. Portin has a strong reputation in the health law field, particularly with respect to issues concerning hospitals, physician groups, ambulatory surgery centers and long term care facilities. His practice is concentrated in the health care regulatory field and he has spoken extensively regarding health care regulatory matters, on issues ranging from fraud and abuse to the withholding of treatment. He is also experienced in representation of financially troubled health care providers, reimbursement matters and physician joint ventures. Mr. Portin has made presentations to the New York State Health Department concerning “Proposed Medicaid Access Regulations” and to the New York State Task Force on “Life and the Law Regarding the Determination of Death.” He has also served on the ethics committees of two institutional providers.

Mr. Portin was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2010 in the fields of Corporate Law and Health Care Law (Copyright 2009 by Woodward/White, Inc., of Aiken, S.C.). He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, as well as the New York State and Erie County Bar Associations.

Mr. Portin is a frequent lecturer on business, commercial leasing, corporate and health law matters. He has conducted numerous seminars and has authored several articles for Business First and the firm’s newsletter. He has chaired several ad hoc Committees at the firm and is presently a member of Damon Morey’s Associates Committee, a position in which he serves as a mentor to the firm’s associates.

His interests include foreign affairs, politics and history, and he has traveled extensively throughout Europe and the former Soviet Union. In the recent years, Mr. Portin served as an Allocations Panel Co-Chairman and a member of the Agency Allocations and Review Committee of the United Way of Buffalo and Erie County.

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