Fifteen years of excellence in
business advocacy.

Robert Agresta is the principal of The Agresta Firm PC, a New York metropolitan area law firm.

The firm provides counsel to family offices, private enterprises and their owners and boards of directors.

Disciplines & Industries

Family Offices and
Closely Held Businesses

For over a decade, Robert Agresta has represented the owners of closely held enterprises and family offices.  Robert counsels clients on a wide range of business and family office governance issues and he advises, educates and guides clients through the challenges related to operating and managing businesses, real estate, tangible assets and other properties.  

The firm  also leads and supervises succession, tax, regulatory and financial advisors using an iterative approach to match strategies to evolving value systems. In advising clients, Robert applies a hands-on business-minded approach geared toward accumulative growth, economic and legal stability and cost management. 


Complex Commercial
Litigation

Since 2009, the firm has also represented businesses, their owners and executives in commercial disputes, advocating in state and federal courts, before arbitration tribunals and resolving enforcement actions before state and federal agencies.

Robert Agresta has served as lead counsel in a wide range of disputes including antitrust and civil RICO disputes as well as federal multi-district litigations and class action lawsuits.  He has litigated dozens of cases to award, verdict or settlement and has briefed and/or argued appeals in both state and federal appellate courts.

For over a decade, the firm has also represented privately owned Hospitals, Surgery Centers and other providers in a wide range of industry-specific matters including assuming the responsibilities of external general counsel, managing and directing litigation and transaction counsel and guiding clients through the vast morass that is the American body of law governing the provision and financial reimbursement of health care services.

We have extensive experience representing health care providers in all types of managed care disputes including reimbursement disagreements, prompt payment disputes, unlawful bundling and downcoding of claims, improper coverage denials, healthcare fraud investigations, federal false claims act allegations and managed care audits.

We have recovered tens of millions of dollars for hospital clients in litigations and arbitrations involving underpayments including Usual and Customary Rates (UCR) and prompt payment issues.

Vitae

Robert is a licensed attorney in New York, New Jersey, Wyoming and Washington, DC. He holds an MBA (EMBL-HSG) from the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland, a Juris Doctor (JD) from New York Law School and a Bachelor of Science degree from Fordham University.

He is a dual-citizen of Italy and the United States and speaks English, Italian, German and Spanish.  Robert is a Young Leader with the American Swiss Foundation where he served member of the Board of Directors through 2021.

Elected at 25 as one of the youngest public officials in the State of New Jersey, Robert also served as a publicly elected Councilman and Council President in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Robert is a named Inventor on two published United States patent applications and is a licensed pilot. He is presently pursuing his interests in glider flight and is an avid skier. He successfully hiked the 800 kilometer Camino de Santiago across northern Spain entirely on foot.

Admissions

State of New York
Admitted 2010

State of New Jersey
Admitted 2009

District of Columbia
Admitted 2010

State of Wyoming
Admitted 2021 (Inactive Status)

Federal Courts
Southern District of New York
District of New Jersey
Third Circuit Court of Appeals
United States Supreme Court

Education

MBA (EMBL-HSG)
Universität Skt. Gallen (CH)
2016

Juris Doctor
New York Law School
2009

Bachelor of Science
Fordham University
2005

Publications

International Tax Planning as a Business Driver
5 Penn. St. J.L. & Int'l Aff. 538
(2017).

Office

 

New York

667 Madison Avenue
Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10022

By Appointment Only

(212) 537-9846 (Tel.)