NEW YORK CITY—Locally-based law firm Herrick, Feinstein LLP has announced that the firm has promoted five attorneys to partner. All of the newly named partners are based in Herrick's New York City headquarters office at 2 Park Ave.

The five new partners are: Jonathan L. Adler, Michael Berengarten, Efram Friedman, Christina Ying and Alan R. Lyons.

Adler focuses his practice on complex commercial disputes, regulatory enforcement proceedings and employment-related litigation. He frequently advises and represents individual and corporate clients in the financial services and real estate industries on a broad range of employment matters, and in litigation, arbitrations, government investigations and enforcement proceedings.

Berengarten concentrates his practice on complex commercial litigation and real estate litigation, including contract disputes and commercial torts, disputes that arise under the Uniform Commercial Code, and business divorces and other actions involving joint ventures, partnership members and limited liability companies. He frequently advises and represents real estate management companies, property owners, and national retailers in controversies involving acquisitions, development projects and operations.

Friedman concentrates his practice in commercial real estate law, focusing primarily on representing owners and developers in acquisitions, sales, developments, financings and joint ventures. Recently, he represented a prominent real estate fund in the acquisition of a 12-building multi-family portfolio in Manhattan, and in the $100-million acquisition financing of a 30-building multi-family portfolio in Manhattan.

Ying advises lenders, owners and developers in real estate financings, acquisitions, sales, developments, joint ventures and workouts involving office, retail, hotel, condominium and mixed-use developments across the nation. Recently, she represented the purchaser in the $68-million acquisition and financing of The Chocolate Factory, a 123-unit mixed-use building in Brooklyn, and the borrower in a global life insurance company's $60-million refinancing of a major Manhattan hotel.

Lyons is national coverage counsel for insurers and insureds, handling complex coverage litigation involving a variety of lines of insurance, including commercial general liability, directors' and officers' liability, and first-party property insurance. In 2014, he led the Herrick team that won a unanimous New York State Appellate Division, First Department insurance coverage ruling in favor of Metropolitan Bank and its CashZone subsidiary. In that case, he successfully argued that the "in transit" clause of the bank's commercial crime insurance policy also covered theft by an armored car company's executives while the money was in their vault.

“We are proud to announce these promotions across three of our key practice areas," says Irwin A. Kishner, chairman of Herrick's executive committee. “Jonathan, Michael, Efram, Christina and Alan are exceptional lawyers who have distinguished themselves in their respective areas of practice, and embody our creative and collaborative approach to solving our client's legal challenges.”