Lecturer Bios
Andrew K. Brotmann, Esq.
Andrew K. Brotmann, Esq., is a senior partner in The Brotmann Law Group, which concentrates in the areas of civil litigation, corporate and commercial matters, and commercial and residential real estate, including condominium and cooperative representation. The firm serves startups as well as established companies and focuses on middle-market ($1 million to $40 million) companies in the tristate region, and several of the firm’s clients rank among the largest companies in Westchester County. Mr. Brotmann has also been able to utilize his experience and represents numerous condominiums, cooperatives and homeowners’ associations handling all legal issues that face these entities. He served as an associate judge of the White Plains City Court from 1997 through 2003 and as an acting judge of the Mount Vernon (New York) and Yonkers (New York) City Courts. As a judge, he has numerous published decisions. Mr. Brotmann earned his J.D. and M.B.A. degrees from Pace University in White Plains, New York, after earning a B.A. degree from Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. He has been an adjunct professor at Berkeley College in White Plains, where he taught real estate in the paralegal program. Mr. Brotmann is also a frequent lecturer on such subjects as “Representing the Commercial Client” and “The Basics of Real Estate Finance.” He is admitted to practice in New York, Connecticut and the District of Columbia, as well as the U.S. Supreme Court and the Federal Courts of the Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of New York and the District of Connecticut. Mr. Brotmann presently serves as secretary of the White Plains Bar Association. He is a captain in the New York Guard and serves on the boards or executive committees of several not-for-profit corporations.
Stephen J.M. Brotmann, Esq.,
Stephen J.M. Brotmann, Esq., is the managing partner of The Brotmann Law Group, which concentrates in the areas of civil litigation, corporate and commercial matters, condominium and cooperative representation, and real estate purchase and sale transactions. Mr. Brotmann earned his undergraduate degree from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and his law degree from Pace University in White Plains, New York. Prior to forming The Brotmann Law Group, he was a partner with the law firm of Brotmann, Oros & Brusca. Mr. Brotmann is admitted to practice in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and the District of Columbia, as well as the Supreme Court of the United States and the Federal Courts of the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the District of Connecticut. He is past president of the board of directors for the Northern Westchester Bar Association. Mr. Brotmann is a member of the New York State Bar Association, the Westchester County Bar Association, and the Building and Realty Institute. He is also a member of the board of advisors for First American Title Insurance Company. Mr. Brotmann’s practice encompasses purchase and sale transactions as well as significant landlord/tenant matters. He is well-known in the field of land use and subdivision matters. His clients are among the area’s most active and prestigious real estate developers, property managers and lenders. Mr. Brotmann has been engaged in a variety of complex multimillion-dollar transactions and has also been a frequent lecturer on such matters as “Financing Commercial Acquisitions” and “Contract Negotiations.”
Rick Rakow
Rick Rakow is president and CEO of Rakow Commercial Realty Group, Inc. Mr. Rakow has been representing the owners and users of commercial property for almost 25 years. After spending his first 10 years in the business representing the owner of 2 million square feet of commercial space, he saw a need emerging. The landlords were real estate experts and the tenants were not. The tenants needed professional representation to regain the advantage lost to landlords and their agents. Seizing the opportunity, Mr. Rakow opened one of this region’s first brokerage companies focused on the needs of the tenant. Rakow Commercial Realty Group, Inc., successfully concludes an average of 100 transactions per year serving as the exclusive representative for the tenant, leasing or sales agent for the owners of properties in the greater Westchester and Fairfield area (and beyond), and has represented transactions valued at over $33.4 million in 2007 alone.
