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Craig S. Wittlin Named to City & State Law Power 100

Rochester, New York, March 3, 2025– Harter Secrest & Emery LLP, a full-service business law firm with offices throughout New York, is pleased to announce that Managing Partner Craig S. Wittlin has been named to the City & State Law Power 100 List.

The City & State Law Power 100 “identifies the key figures in New York’s legal sphere…” and includes presidential appointees, local elected officials, judges and high-profile attorneys.

Wittlin serves as Harter Secrest & Emery’s Managing Partner and is a corporate lawyer with nearly 30 years of experience. He serves as outside general counsel to one of the largest retailers in the Northeast United States and serves as lead outside counsel to several other businesses in a wide range of industries. Wittlin guides HSE teams in various merger, acquisition, securities, joint venture, and capital markets transactions. Over the last decade, he has led HSE’s efforts on transactions with an aggregate value of more than $10 billion, ranging from transactions of less than $1 million to more than $1 billion. 

Wittlin is recognized by Chambers USA in the field of Corporate/M&A and as the region’s only Eminent Practitioner since 2017. He is also consistently recognized in The Best Lawyers in America®.

He earned a J.D., cum laude, from Albany Law School, and a B.S. in Managerial Law and Public Policy from Syracuse University.

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Harter Secrest & Emery LLP is a full-service business law firm with attorneys throughout New York representing clients ranging from individuals and family-owned businesses to Fortune 100 companies and major regional institutions. With offices in Rochester, Buffalo, Albany, Corning, and New York City, New York, the firm and its attorneys are consistently recognized by the industry’s leading law firm and attorney ranking programs, including Chambers and Partners, Best Law Firms® and The Best Lawyers in America®.

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