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Campolo, Middleton & McCormick, LLP is pleased to announce Partner Vincent Costa has been selected by Long Island Business News to receive a 2025 Leadership in Law Award. This is the second time Costa is receiving this prestigious award. This award recognizes dedicated individuals whose leadership, both in the legal profession and in the community, has had a positive impact on Long Island. Recipients of these awards demonstrate outstanding achievements, involvement in their profession and support of the community. Costa accepted his award at the Leadership in Law Awards Gala at the Crest Hollow Country Club on November 13.

Costa manages the firm’s Corporate department, with a particular focus on complex M&A transactions, private equity raises, family office, and general corporate and business law matters. Working with large corporations and high-net-worth individuals, he has closed countless M&A deals worth billions of dollars. Costa has successfully negotiated and led the CMM team on a variety of complex corporate matters including business divorces, buy-side and sell-side mergers and acquisitions (asset and stock purchases and sales), and financings. Serving as the liaison among all the advisors and professional service providers involved in a deal, Costa has an eye for seeing how all the puzzle pieces fit together. By working and collaborating with clients’ teams of financial advisors, accountants, and M&A advisors, Costa ensures a smooth and transparent transaction for the benefit of the client.

CMM is pleased to announce the successful closing of a commercial real estate transaction valued at over $4 million. CMM Partner Christine Malafi represented the buyer in the acquisition of three commercial buildings in Suffolk County, managing all aspects of the deal from contract to closing.

Prior to purchase, CMM worked diligently to resolve all tenant-related issues, ensuring a seamless transition of ownership and protecting the client’s investment. This transaction highlights CMM’s experience and attention to detail in complex commercial real estate matters.

This transaction underscores our commitment to delivering results for our clients. We are proud to have played a key role in this commercial real estate transaction and look forward to supporting future opportunities with similar diligence and professionalism.

For more information on our commercial real estate services, please contact us.

Campolo, Middleton & McCormick, LLP is proud to announce that ten attorneys at the firm, in multiple practice areas, have been named to the 2025 Super Lawyers® list, four of them as a Rising Star. The CMM attorneys recognized this year, in practice areas including Business and Corporate, Personal Injury, Real Estate, Business Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Construction Litigation, Employment Litigation, and Appeals, are:

• Joe Campolo
• Scott Middleton
• Patrick McCormick
• Christine Malafi
• Jeffrey Basso
• Donald Rassiger
• David Green
• Vincent Costa
• Richard DeMaio
• Meagan Nolan

The rigorous election process is based on peer evaluations, independent research, and professional achievement in legal practice.

Learn more about CMM’s outstanding legal professionals here.

Campolo, Middleton & McCormick Managing Partner Joe Campolo has been getting things done in the business community for more than 25 years and is a recognized leader for tackling large projects and delivering results. From advising business owners and CEOs on mergers and acquisitions to running his own businesses, Campolo is immersed in finding creative solutions to complex problems. His deep, inner knowledge of the business world allows him to understand the perspective of business owners as they think about growing and selling their companies.

Campolo is also the founder and chief executive officer of Strata Alliance, a multi-family office with a network of carefully curated service providers supporting families, entrepreneurs and developers.

A member of LIBN’s prestigious Long Island Business Hall of Fame, Campolo is a top business strategist and go-to advisor for the who’s who of Long Island business. Recognized as an authority on negotiation, Campolo enjoys an advantage in complex transactions and litigation and is routinely retained in “bet the company” legal matters by companies large and small.  

Campolo is also deeply involved in philanthropy, starting his own nonprofit, CMM Cares, which supports Long Islanders facing unexpected challenges. Campolo serves on the board of the Guide Dog Foundation and America’s VetDogs. He is also a board member of the HIA-LI and chair of its Long Island Economic Development Task Force.

Campolo served honorably in the U.S. Marine Corps. He is a member of St. George’s Golf & Country Club in Stony Brook and is an executive producer of “Tribute,” an award-winning short film.

View the full LIBN Influencers in Law book here.

Campolo, Middleton & McCormick Senior Partner Christine Malafi was named to Dan’s Power Women of the East End, recognizing extraordinary women who make the East End the thriving and vibrant place it is to work, live and do business. Malafi received her award on September 10, 2025 at the Muses in Southampton, NY.

Malafi chairs the Corporate Department at CMM, which Forbes has recognized as a Top Corporate Law Firm She has led the CMM legal team in closing countless M&A deals worth billions of dollars. She has vast experience advising on both buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions in a variety of industries, including technology, manufacturing, education, healthcare, and professional service sectors. Malafi is particularly adept at working closely and strategically with clients’ other professional advisors, including accountants, bankers, and M&A advisors, as well as forging those critical relationships for clients based on the deep network of relationships she has cultivated over years in the business. 

Malafi has the unique perspective of being a corporate lawyer who spent the first half of her career as a litigator with extensive experience in municipal, insurance coverage, and fraud issues. She brings her deep understanding of litigation and the court system to all aspects of her corporate work and uses this experience to help protect clients from a variety of critical angles. 

Read more about Dan’s Power Women of the East End.

Campolo, Middleton & McCormick, LLP is delighted to announce that attorney Richard A. DeMaio has been elevated to Partner at the firm, effective September 1, 2025.

Richard heads CMM’s Landlord Tenant Practice with support from Patrick McCormick, dean of landlord tenant proceedings on Long Island, and Special Counsel Michael McCarthy. Richard also focuses on litigation in varied subject matter including landlord-tenant cases, business disputes, contract issues, environmental matters, a variety of appeals, and municipal matters in state and federal court. His municipal work includes Article 78 proceedings, zoning/land use matters, and defending municipalities.

He works extensively on motion practice and appellate practice and has argued and won several appeals pertaining to land use/zoning, commercial, and general litigation. Richard’s trial experience includes handling all aspects of trial preparation, trial strategy, and drafting trial memoranda, including successfully representing landlords at trial. His work has led to many successful outcomes and creative litigation strategies for the firm’s clients, particularly in the areas of municipal liability, commercial litigation, and environmental issues.

“I’m thrilled to congratulate Rich on his well-deserved elevation to Partner. Rich’s unwavering commitment to our clients reflects the very best of our firm and his dedication to the legal profession is evident through his active role with the Suffolk County Bar Association. I look forward to all he will accomplish in this next chapter of his career,” said Senior Partner Patrick McCormick.

Richard joined CMM as a Summer Associate in 2016 and worked his way up to Associate and Senior Associate before being named Partner. He received his undergraduate degree from Hofstra University and his law degree from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. He and his wife live in East Islip.

Campolo, Middleton & McCormick, LLP, a premier law firm with offices across Long Island, is thrilled to announce that that Senior Partner Scott Middleton has been recognized by his peers for the twelfth consecutive year to be featured in The Best Lawyers in America® in the category of Personal Injury Litigation (2026 edition). With this distinction, Middleton ranks among the top five percent of private practice attorneys nationwide as determined by a rigorous peer-review process.

For over three decades, the legal profession and the public have turned to Best Lawyers® as one of the most credible measures of legal integrity and distinction in the nation. Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based on over a million confidential evaluations by top attorneys. The Best Lawyers’ founding principle forms the basis of this transparent methodology: the best lawyers know who the best lawyers are. No fee to participate is permitted.

Middleton chairs the Personal Injury and Municipal practice groups at CMM. He handles all types of complex litigation including cases that have received local and national media coverage. Middleton also focuses on land use and zoning, for municipalities including the Village of North Haven and Town of Southampton. He has also held roles including Trustee, Mayor, Village Justice, and Attorney/Prosecutor.

Scott is a recognized supporter of the arts, serving on the advisory board for the Staller Center for the Arts in addition to his membership on the Stony Brook University Intercollegiate Athletic Board.

Campolo, Middleton & McCormick, LLP, a premier law firm with offices across Long Island, is thrilled to announce that that Senior Partner Christine Malafi has been recognized by her peers for the ninth year in a row to be featured in The Best Lawyers in America® in the category of Employment Law – Management (2026 edition). With this distinction, Malafi ranks among the top five percent of private practice attorneys nationwide as determined by a rigorous peer-review process.

For over three decades, the legal profession and the public have turned to Best Lawyers® as one of the most credible measures of legal integrity and distinction in the nation. Inclusion in Best Lawyers is based on over a million confidential evaluations by top attorneys. The Best Lawyers’ founding principle forms the basis of this transparent methodology: the best lawyers know who the best lawyers are. No fee to participate is permitted.

Malafi chairs the Corporate Department at CMM, which was recognized by Forbes as a Top Corporate Law Firm in America. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, corporate transactions, including commercial real estate sales and purchases, drafting and negotiating a wide range of business agreements, and helping businesses navigate all types of executive and human resources matters. She routinely represents buyers and sellers in multimillion-dollar transactions and serves in a general counsel role for many of the firm’s corporate clients. In addition to her legal work, Malafi serves on the Executive Board of Directors of Family Service League.