Trusted New York Personal Counsel
Family offices operate across jurisdictions but concentrate risk in a small number of relationships and decisions. When legal matters arise in New York — or when New York is the natural venue for coordination — they need someone on the ground who understands both the legal environment and the principal’s broader interests.
Snyder serves as standing outside counsel to a select roster of family offices — providing a permanent, trusted legal presence in New York for principals based in the city or anywhere in the world.
An ongoing operational relationship. Snyder coordinates, supervises, and when necessary directly handles the legal affairs that flow through New York.
Active and potential litigation in New York state and federal courts. Real estate transactions, disputes, and ongoing asset management. Corporate matters involving New York entities, counterparties, or governing law.
Regulatory inquiries and compliance matters touching New York. Sensitive personal or family matters requiring discreet local handling. Vendor, advisor, and outside counsel oversight — ensuring that specialists retained by the family are performing and aligned.
Direct relationship with the principal or designated family office leadership. Single point of contact for all New York legal matters. Careful triage — what Snyder handles directly, what is referred to specialists, and what requires no action at all.
Ongoing monitoring of open matters. Proactive identification of emerging risk. Coordination across outside counsel, accountants, real estate advisors, and other professionals retained by the family.
Communication is frequent, concise, and calibrated to the principal’s preferences. No unnecessary process. No unnecessary people.
For family offices based in other U.S. cities or internationally, Snyder serves as the New York node — the person who is physically present when presence matters. Court appearances, closings, meetings with counterparties, inspections, depositions.
This eliminates the need to fly in counsel or rely on unfamiliar local firms for matters that require continuity and trust. One relationship covers the jurisdiction.
For family offices already based in Manhattan, the value is different but equally clear: a senior legal operator who sits outside the family’s internal structure, brings independent judgment, and can act quickly on matters that don’t fit neatly into any single outside firm’s lane.
The problems that fall between categories — part litigation, part business, part personal — are often the ones that matter most. Those are the matters Snyder handles.
When a matter requires full litigation engagement or trial-level resources, Snyder steps into first-chair or quarterback roles directly — with fee structures appropriate to the scale of the matter.
The standing relationship ensures there is no ramp-up period. Context is already in place. Execution begins immediately.
The roster is limited by design. Snyder personally stewards each relationship with over two decades of federal courtroom experience and a practice that integrates litigation, capital, and institutional design.
Initial conversations are conducted privately and on a confidential basis.
25+ years of federal trial practice. Former Proskauer Rose litigator. Federal judicial clerk. Brown University (Phi Beta Kappa), Harvard Law School.
Founder of Agnes Intelligence, which placed 4th of 1,000+ entries in the 2018 IBM Watson Build competition. Co-Managing Principal of Junto Opportunity Fund I LP, a Manhattan distressed multifamily real estate fund. Founder and Chairman of Junto Club USA LLC.