Alexis M. Florczak

Ms. Florczak is an attorney in the firm’s Business Services and Economic Development & Public Incentives practice groups. She advises businesses, governmental entities, and not-for-profit organizations, including those within the cannabis and health care industries, on a broad range of matters affecting day-to-day operations. She regularly provides counsel regarding formation and corporate governance, licensure, and regulatory and compliance matters unique to each of her clients. Ms. Florczak similarly works with clients in the preparation, review and negotiation of various agreements, including those related to the provision of goods and services, mergers, acquisitions, and licensing.   

Ms. Florczak’s practice also focuses on representing economic development entities, including industrial development agencies and local development corporations. She regularly advises clients regarding project eligibility and is fully familiar with state and federal laws and regulatory requirements which impact the operations of such entities, including the General Municipal Law, Public Authorities Law, Open Meetings Law, and New York’s State Environmental Quality Review Act. Ms. Florczak has experience closing IDA incentive transactions and assists clients on matters relating to procurement, construction, and the navigation of federal, state, and private grant funding requirements.

Ms. Florczak is a supervisor of the firm’s law clerk program. She is an active member of the Junior League of Buffalo and presently serves on its Membership Council. Ms. Florczak is the Co-Chair of the LGBTQ+ Committee of the Western New York Chapter of the Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York and is a member of the Erie County and New York State Bar Associations.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Florczak served as an associate for a local firm focusing on corporate and regulatory matters within the health care industry and medical malpractice litigation. She also previously served as a law clerk in the Cleveland Clinic Foundation’s Law Department, and as a certified legal intern in the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center.

She received her undergraduate degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, graduating magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She earned her Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Ms. Florczak graduated in the top 10% of her class and was the recipient of the Richard A. and Brandon S. Collier Award for outstanding achievement in law-medicine. While in law school, she also served as the editor-in-chief and publications editor of Health Matrix: Journal of Law-Medicine.