NEW YORK – Aug. 22, 2023 – Three Greenberg Traurig lawyers, Edward C. Wallace, John L. Mascialino and Jonathan L. Bing were named to City & State’s “Manhattan Power 100” List. The list selects power brokers in the borough, from elected and appointed officials, business executives, academic leaders and “advocates and activists of every stripe,” according to the publication, which also notes “this trio from Greenberg Traurig is hypertapped into New York politics.”
Wallace, who Co-Chairs Greenberg Traurig’s NYC office and is founder of Greenberg Traurig’s Government Law & Policy (GLP) Practice, serves as a trusted advisor and frontline negotiator for companies and individuals in high profile and sensitive matters. Wallace led the Greenberg Traurig GLP team in recent contract extension negotiations for clients JCDecaux, the world’s largest bus shelter company, and Hornblower, the city’s ferry provider.
Wallace, who served as the last At-Large City Council Member (Manhattan) and then as Chief of Staff to the New York City Council President Carol Bellamy before being named by then Chair Mortimer Zuckerman as Vice president at Boston Propertiese has represented major institutions and real estate companies, including Columbia University, New York University, and Fordham University in their Manhattan expansions as well as Extell, Silverstein, and Fetner Properties. Wallace serves as Chair of the French American Foundation (USA) and pro bono General Counsel for the Citizens Budget Commission. He is former Chair and a board member emeritus of New Yorkers for Parks.
Mascialino, who serves as Chair of Greenberg Traurig’s New York Government Law & Policy Practice, served as First Deputy Commissioner of the NYC Department of Citywide Administrative Services as well as Deputy Chief of Staff and Counsel for the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Operations. He was a mayoral appointee to the Franchise Concession Review Committee, and a Deputy General Counsel in the Mayor's Office of City Legislative Affairs. He focuses his practice on government contracts, administrative law, government affairs, government investigations, and government-related real estate matters. Mascialino serves as trustee and Vice-Chair of the Riverside Park Conservancy and as an executive committee member and Finance Committee Chair of the Grand Central Partnership.
Bing, who counsels corporations and nonprofit clients in the entertainment, financial services, health care, hospitality, transportation, and social services fields, served five terms in the New York State Assembly representing Manhattan’s Upper East Side and Midtown East. He also served as a special deputy superintendent of the New York Department of Financial Services in charge of the Liquidation Bureau. He helps clients advance legislation in the New York City Council and New York State Legislature, and secure funding from city and state budgets. Bing serves on the steering committee for the Association for a Better New York, an appointed member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence, and on the Board of Directors of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce.