Wolf Haldenstein Adler Freeman & Herz LLP

Wolf Haldenstein’s Real Estate practice lawyers are highly skilled litigators and trained accountants who have successfully represented clients in transactional and operating disputes, ranging from the simplest sales to the most complex multi-party transactions. Wolf Haldenstein’s Real Estate legal team has effectively negotiated and litigated joint venture disputes, appraisal proceedings, construction defects, insurance claims, foreclosure defenses, actions to quiet title, actions for specific performance, Section 421-a matters, closings, mortgage and lending agreements and traditional landlord/tenant disputes. Among its most noteworthy accomplishments, the Firm achieved the largest tenant settlement in history in Roberts v. Tishman Speyer, 13 N.Y.3d 270 (N.Y. 2009), a class action establishing rent stabilization rights for more than 27,500 current and former tenants of New York City’s iconic Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village housing complexes. The Firm has litigated numerous cases involving real estate limited partnerships and Real Estate Investment Trusts (“REITs”) and provides counsel to on REIT investments (see REITS).  The Firm also has considerable expertise in litigating and resolving disputes among partners, LLC members, investors, and other co-venturers who hold substantial real estate assets. We have represented our clients in matters involving the development and operation of hotels, shopping malls, commercial buildings, multi-family residential properties, and virtually all other types of real estate. Because these types of disputes are more and more finding their way into the Commercial Division of the New York Supreme Court, our vast experience in that Court has proved to be an invaluable asset for our clients.

Wolf Haldenstein’s Real Estate practice team includes highly trained lawyers with complex litigation, jury trial, accounting and auditing experience who are supported by lawyers in all practice areas, including Litigation, Business and Commercial, Trusts and Estates, Tax and Securities.

Wolf Haldenstein does not discriminate or tolerate harassment against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, national origin, sex, age, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or alienage or citizenship status and designs its hiring practices to ensure that minority group members and women are afforded equal employment opportunities without discrimination.

The Firm is in compliance with all applicable Federal, State, County, and City equal employment opportunity laws. Wolf Haldenstein is proud of its long history of support for the rights of, and employment opportunities for, women, the disadvantaged, and minority group persons, including the participation in civil rights and voter registration activities in the South in the early 1960's by partners of the Firm; the part-time employment of disadvantaged youth through various public school programs; the varied pro bono activities performed by many of the Firm's lawyers; the employment of many women and minority group persons in various capacities at the Firm, including at the partner level; the hiring of ex-offenders in supported job training programs; and the use of minority and women-owned businesses to provide services and supplies to the Firm.