Tiernan, Charles E.

Mr. Koerner is counsel in the Business Department and heads the Firm's New York business practice.  Mr. Koerner has over thirty-five years of experience as a business attorney in New York.  He has advised clients in business formation, debt and equity financing through public offerings and private placement transactions, various lending transactions including credit securitizations, corporate governance, SEC regulatory compliance, acquisitions, mergers, and sales. Mr. Koerner counsels financial institutions and private investors in commercial real estate and structured finance transactions, including foreclosures, workouts and sales of distressed debt.  Mr. Koerner has also represented clients in commercial litigation, arbitration, mediation,  and governmental agency enforcement proceedings.

Mr. Koerner has a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the everyday challenges faced by business leaders in such matters as sales and marketing, manufacturing, service delivery, regulatory compliance and customer satisfaction.  His experience permits him to express legal issues in a business context enabling executives to make efficient, well informed and effective business decisions.  Throughout his career Mr. Koerner has advised entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of business formation, through proof of concept, expansion and value realization.

Mr. Koerner received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from Union College in 1971 and a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School in 1975.  He is a member of the New York bar  and has practiced in the state and federal courts in New York.   Mr. Koerner is also admitted in Florida where his membership is inactive.  Mr. Koerner has been AV rated by the Martindale-Hubbell peer review rating system.   

Mr. Koerner serves and has served as an officer and director of publicly traded and privately owned business entities, charitable and community service organizations.

Mr. Koerner is a partner in Koerner Kronenfeld Partners LLC, of New York City,  strategic planning and implementation consultants.  The firm advises leaders in the business, not-for-profit and government sectors.  Clients of the firm include leaders in Fortune 500 companies, government, medicine, media and the arts.