For more than 30 years, Alan Fox has practiced in New York City and metropolitan New York, representing property owners in a wide variety of real estate transactions, from small purchases or sales to blanket mortgages of scores of properties involving tens of millions of dollars. Mr. Fox has represented purchasers and sellers, landlords and tenants, and borrowers and lenders. Transactions have included site acquisition for development of a major league sports training facility; purchase and sale of shopping centers, high-rise office buildings and apartment towers, and ground leases; and refinancing of office, commercial, and residential properties, including multifamily garden apartment developments and hotels.
As counsel to a New York Industrial Development Agency (IDA), with experience representing applicants before similar agencies, he is familiar with the tax incentives available to businesses that relocate to, or remain in, New York State. This perspective enables him to identify opportunities to reduce the commercial client's costs in a relocation or expansion situation. Where IDA bonds are a financing option, such as in connection with capital projects of not-for-profit entities, Mr. Fox has the experience to guide a client through this process.
Honors and Awards
- Listed in Metro-New York Super Lawyers® in the area of Real Estate Law for 2006, 2007, and 2011/2012 (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.)
Experience
- Representation of Westchester County Industrial Development Agency in connection with economic development, "civic facility" (not-for profit), job creation, and job retention projects throughout Westchester County, including recent mixed-use developments such as "City Center" and "Renaissance Square" in White Plains.
- Represents the New York Power Authority in connection with the disposition of a prime development site in Long Island City, Queens, New York.
- Represented a Long Island real estate company in connection with the acquisition of medical office complexes in Suffolk and Westchester Counties.
- Representation of a major New York professional sports organization in connection with site acquisition for the development of a multiteam training facility in Greenburg, New York (prior to joining Robinson & Cole).
- Representation of a major New York City property owner in connection with the purchase, sale, and financing of scores of commercial and residential properties throughout the five boroughs (prior to joining Robinson & Cole).
- Representation of Westchester County Industrial Development Agency concerning a tax incentives project to locate a large pharmaceutical research corporation in a vacant biotech complex in Greenburgh, New York, resulting in 550 jobs retained or created in Westchester County.
- Representation of Westchester County Industrial Development Agency concerning a tax incentives project to locate a large pharmaceutical research corporation in three newly constructed buildings in a biomedical complex in Greenburgh, New York, resulting in 600 jobs retained or created in Westchester County.
(Also at New York City Office)