Robert V. Okulski

Bob is Gibney’s Managing Partner and oversees the firm’s Business Group. His practice is centered primarily on corporate, commercial and employment law matters.

He has performed a general counsel function for a number of businesses and non-profit organizations in a variety of industries. Bob advises on the legal issues arising from all phases of their operations from formation through dissolution or sale. He structures and implements business transactions and regularly counsels foreign entities entering the U.S. marketplace.

Bob has acted as lead counsel in numerous merger and acquisition transactions from both a seller and acquirer’s perspective.

• Fordham University School of Law, J.D.
• University of Dayton, B.A., cum laude

• New York

• Lead counsel in structuring a joint venture in Europe between two of the largest and most recognizable consumer products companies in the world
• Regularly acted as lead counsel in acquisition transactions involving hundreds of millions of dollars in consideration
• General Counsel of The International Anti-Counterfeiting Coalition, Inc., advising on all aspects of its operations
• Lead counsel in raising capital in the private equity market

• Fordham Law Review, Member

• New York State Bar Association

• St. Christopher’s Inn, Inc., Board Member
• The Christophers, Inc., Board Member

• Foreign Corporations: What Constitutes “Doing Business” Under New York’s Qualification Statute, Ford. L. Rev. 1042

• Labor and Employment
• Business

• Fordham University School of Law, J.D.
• University of Dayton, B.A., cum laude

• New York