Condos, Co-ops, HOAs & Managing Agents
Areas of Focus
- Board elections and meetings
- Breach of fiduciary duty disputes
- Breach of contract disputes
- Common charge, maintenance fees, and HOA dues payment disputes and collections
- Conflict of interest disputes
- Contract review and negotiation
- Corporate governance and drafting and review of policies
- Drafting and interpreting governing and operating documents (such as deeds, proprietary leases, declarations, by-laws, rules, board resolutions, alteration agreements, and transfer closing documents)
- Disputes between boards and managing agents
- Disputes between neighbors
- Disputes between owners/tenants and boards
- Enforcement and interpretation of by-laws and house regulations and rules
- Financing and refinancing
- Judicial and non-judicial lien foreclosure
- Leasing and sub-leasing
- Liens
- Managing agent agreements
- Representation in judicial proceedings
- Transfers of interest
- Vendor and contractor disputes
Representative Matters
- Serve as general counsel to boards of cooperative corporations and condominium associations
- Assisted cooperative corporation refinance its underlying building mortgage and credit line mortgage
- Drafted and negotiated management agreement on behalf of a managing agent
- Represented tenant against lender’s non-judicial sale of tenant’s shares in cooperative apartment corporation
- Represented cooperative corporation in negotiations with lender of non-paying tenants to obtain payment of outstanding maintenance fees and assessments
- Successfully resolved condominium board’s action seeking to recover funds from its former managing agent
- Successfully resolved on HOA’s behalf a homeowner’s attempted class-action lawsuit to enforce a purported easement for ingress and egress over HOA owned real property.
- Assisted cooperative corporation resolve shareholder’s property damage claims
We invite you to contact us for more information or to schedule a consultation.