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Welcome to
John Murphy & Associates.

We are a boutique law firm applying over 60 years of collective legal experience to achieve winning results for our clients. Our practice areas include litigation, regulatory, corporate, commercial and immigration legal services. Since our founding in 2013, we have efficiently and effectively navigated our clients through a variety of legal challenges.

Welcome to
John Murphy & Associates.

We are a boutique law firm applying over 60 years of collective legal experience to achieve winning results for our clients. Our practice areas include litigation, regulatory, corporate, commercial and immigration legal services. Since our founding in 2013, we have efficiently and effectively navigated our clients through a variety of legal challenges.
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Our Services

At John Murphy & Associates, work is conducted with utmost trust and confidentiality, prioritising clients and committing to exceeding their expectations.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

• Financial Services: ’33 and ’40 Act securities actions; FINRA industry and customer arbitrations; employment matters

• Commercial Disputes: Corporation, Partnership and LLC disputes; breach of contract actions; franchise disputes; JAMS and ICDR arbitrations

• Construction Litigation: Commercial agreement disputes; lien filing and enforcement; employment)

• Technology Sector Disputes: Trademark and Copyright infringement actions; services contract disputes

• Employment: Employment termination disputes; independent contractor disputes; breach of employment contract actions

Corporate Advisory & Transactional Services

• Entity Formation & Structuring Advice: Nniche service to help overseas businesses understand structuring and tax implications of establishing US operations

• Mergers and Acquisitions: Share purchase and asset purchase as well as merger transactions

• Terms and Conditions Agreements: Advising foreign and domestic businesses on ensuring US compliant B2B and Customer agreements in place

• Privacy Law: Federal/state law privacy compliance

• Employment Law: Assisting foreign and domestic businesses with ensuring US federal and state law compliant employment documentation place

• Trademark & Copyright Registration

Regulatory & Compliance

• Internal Investigations: Assisting clients in effectively responding to inquiries from federal and state regulators including SEC, FINRA, FDA, FTC, DOL, OSHA, and others

• Enforcement Actions: Assisting clients in responding to disciplinary and sanction enforcement actions by federal and state regulators including SEC, FINRA and other agencies

• Advisory: Guiding clients on establishing internal compliance structures to be compliant with federal and state regulatory requirements

Immigration

• Nonimmigrant employment visas: E, H, O, J, L visas

• Employer sponsored green cards: Including PERM

• Family based immigration: Family sponsored petitions

• Naturalization applications and appeals

Our people

John Murphy
Principal

• Experience: White & Case (2002-2006), Linklaters (2006-2009) UBS Investment Bank (2010-2013), JMA (2013-Present).

• Education: Mercyhurst University (1997) Notre Dame Law School (2002).

• Practice Experience: Securities Litigation; Financial Services Regulatory & Compliance; Commercial and Contract Disputes; Construction Litigation; Employment Litigation; Internal Investigations.

• Bar Admissions: New York.

• Pro-Bono & Community: Board Member of concernusa.org; Board Member and Past-President iabany.org; Founder and Past-President irishnetworknyc.com CCD Teacher St Cassian’s RC, Montclair.

Andrew Lillis
Partner

• Experience: Lehman, Lee & Xu(Beijing, China, 2008-2009), Filligent, DT Asia (In-house roles, Hong Kong, 2010-2012), John Murphy & Associates, (2013 – Present).

• Education: University College Dublin BCL (2004), University of Hong-Kong LLM (2007), Quantic School of Business & Technology EMBA (2022).

• Practice Experience: Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions; Data Privacy; Trademark; Labor & Employment; Immigration.

• Bar Admissions: New York, Texas, Ireland, England & Wales.

• Pro-Bono & Community: Immigration asylum cases; Board Member iabany.org.

Maureen Reid
Partner

• Experience: McCarter & English (2002 – 2004); Baker & Botts (2004 – 2012); Public Accounting Oversight Board (2012 – 2014); JMA (2015 – 2019); Maser Consulting (2019-2021); Colliers (2019-2021); JMA (2022 – Present).

• Education: Stonehill College (1998); Notre Dame Law School (2002).

• Practice Experience: Financial Services Litigation; Internal Investigations; Regulatory and Compliance; Former Senior Counsel in the Division of Enforcement and Investigations at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board; Former Inhouse Counsel at major construction industry company.

• Bar Admissions: New York, New Jersey.

• Pro-Bono & Community: Class Parent; CCD Teacher.

Lisa Whelan
Paralegal

• Practice Experience: Assists JMA attorneys in all facets of their respective cases.

• Education: University College Galway (2022)

• Pro-Bono & Community: Board Member www.iabany.org; Member of St Brigid’s Gaelic Football Club.

What our
clients say

“
We would have been lost trying to navigate the legal and regulatory landscape of establishing our business in the US without the hugely valuable assistance of John, Andrew and the entire team. They remain our go-to advisors for all our US legal needs.
Larry DunneCFO Scope
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John, Andrew and the entire team have been perfect legal partners throughout our growth, providing strong guidance and counsel across our commercial contract and legal needs; I could not recommend the team more highly.
Cillian KieranCEO Ethyca Inc.
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We really appreciated how the team went above and beyond in helping us achieve a substantial result in a dispute with a competitor that looked bleak before we partnered with John and Maureen as our legal counsel.
David WaltersCEO, Leading Edge Power Solutions
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Andrew’s availability and expertise was a Godsend in giving me the comfort and advice needed to obtain my immigration visa and I would highly recommend the law firm to any business person needing to obtain a US immigration visa.
Kevin O’MahonyCEO, TellUS 360

Contact us
for a free consult

John Murphy

Cellphone: (646) 920-6921
jmurphy@johnmurphylaw.com

Andrew Lillis

Cellphone: (646) 820 6899
alillis@johnmurphylaw.com

Maureen Reid
Cellphone: (732) 207-1110 amreid@johnmurphylaw.com
Lisa Whelan

Cellphone: (914) 304-7484

Main Office

Phone: (646) 862-2012

John Murphy
Cellphone: (646) 920-6921
Email: jmurphy@johnmurphylaw.com
Andrew Lillis

Cellphone: (646) 820 6899
Email:
alillis@johnmurphylaw.com

Maureen Reid
Cellphone: (732) 207-1110
Email: amreid@johnmurphylaw.com
Lisa Whelan
Cellphone: (914) 304-7484
Main Office

Phone: (646) 862-2012