David Pfalzgraf, Jr.

Founding Partner

Buffalo

Phone: 716.854.3400 x204

Fax: 716.332.0336

Practice Areas

Business Law - Practice Area Leader

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About Me

For David, it starts and ends with teamwork, and a mindset that the interests of clients and the firm must always be elevated above self-interest. It's a mindset he developed over years of competing on athletic fields and while serving in the United States Navy. David's client and people-first, collaborative approach helps the firm build strong professional and personal relationships with clients and gets everyone working toward a common goal, whether he's helping a closely-held family business or a publicly traded corporation. His experience includes business formation, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, financing and investment matters, development matters, labor and employment issues, and commercial transactions.

Outside the office, David is proud to serve on numerous for profit and not for profit boards and loves to travel with his wife and his four grown children. He is also an avid and accomplished squash player and Ironman.

Credentials & Achievements

Education:

University at Buffalo School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude, 1997

Miami University of Ohio, B.A., 1992

Admissions:

New York 

Florida 

United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit

United States District Court for the Western District of New York

Achievements:

Power 250 Award, Buffalo Business First, 2018-2026

C-Level Executive Award, Buffalo Business First, 2020

Upstate New York Super Lawyers, 2022-2025

Distinguished Alumni Award, University at Buffalo Law School of Law, 2020

Legal Elite of Western New York, 2010–2023

40 Under 40, Business First

Former Editor-In-Chief, Buffalo Law Review

Champion, Charles S. Desmond Moot Court Competition

Professional Focus

Capabilities:

  • Advises closely held and public companies on mergers and acquisitions
  • Complex business transactions
  • Healthcare transactions including medical practice acquisitions and management services arrangements

Industries Served:

  • Banking & Finance
  • Professional & Business Services
  • Health Services

Affiliations

  • Buffalo Club Preservation Foundation, President, Board of Directors
  • Ferguson Electric, Inc., Board of Directors
  • Electric Cord Manufacturing Co., Board of Directors
  • The Buffalo Club, Past President (2013)
  • Country Club of Buffalo, Former Member, Board of Governors
  • Buffalo Renaissance Foundation, Inc., Past President, Board of Directors
  • Erie County Bar Foundation, Inc., Past President, Board of Directors
  • Kaleida Health Foundation, Past President, Board of Directors
  • Nichols School, Former Secretary, Board of Trustees
  • 117 Holes for Children’s Participant

Significant Matters