Experience
Successful Real Estate Litigation representation and cases
- Represented numerous commercial landlords in connection with COVID-19 breach of lease disputes and actions against retail and office tenants and obtained multiple million-dollar judgment and settlements on behalf of clients.
- Represented a real estate investor in connection with an action for breach of a triple-net ground lease brought by the developer-lessee, and deposed the lessee’s project manager.
- Represented a warehouse owner and a 1031 qualified intermediary in connection with an action for specific performance and breach of the purchase and sale agreement brought by the property’s intended purchaser.
- Defended a public-private joint venture development in obtaining the dismissal of a mechanics’ lien foreclosure action brought by the general contractor of the client’s commercial tenant.
- Represented a large non-profit housing developer-provider in connection with a defective construction action against its former general contractor.
Successful Commercial Litigation representation and cases
- Successfully represented a non-profit organization and its principals in connection with a federal civil RICO action in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
- Successfully negotiated over 35 favorable settlement agreements in products liability and breach of warranty actions.
- Advised an unsecured-creditor in Bankruptcy Court, drafted a proof of claim, and negotiated with the bankruptcy trustee.
- Researched and drafted a motion to dismiss in a multi-million-dollar fraudulent misrepresentation class action in California federal court.
- Researched and drafted an appellate brief on behalf of a distributer of consumer goods in a deceptive practices action in Wisconsin state court.
Successful Transactional representation and cases
- Successfully represented numerous commercial property owners in the negotiation of both licensor-side and licensee-side access agreements for Local Law 11 work and construction work.
- Successfully represented numerous commercial landlords in leasing negotiations with new and existing office and retail tenants.
- Negotiated and drafted purchase and sale agreements and construction contracts on behalf of commercial developers and construction companies.
- Successfully advised a commercial developer regarding an inquiry by the United States Department of Labor.