Heather is the firm's Tax Credits Team leader. She primarily concentrates her practice on real estate law, institutional lending, land use, and municipal compliance. She handles real estate acquisitions, sale transactions, and financing and serves as examining counsel for several title-insurance companies. Heather’s financing experience includes representing lenders in commercial real estate transactions such as conventional mortgage, municipal-finance projects, and SBA 504 and 7(a) guaranteed-business, building, and construction loans.
Heather also represents commercial landlords and tenants, including local and national shopping-mall owners and office-building owners, in lease negotiations and summary eviction proceedings. In addition, she represents individuals and corporations, including national wireless-telecommunications providers, in negotiating leases, site acquisitions, due-diligence projects, and complying with local, federal, and state regulations.
Heather also represents religious corporations and not-for-profit developers in the acquisition, development, sale, and financing of commercial properties, including assisting religious and not-for-profit corporations in the application process for Attorney General and Supreme Court approval for transactions as required under NYS law.
Heather routinely provides support with eminent domain and condemnation matters involving fee acquisitions, easements, rights-of-way, and title-examination research. She’s also well versed in CPS-7 exemption applications and all types of plan-amendment preparation for condominium and homeowners’ association developers. In addition, Heather assists in civil litigation matters involving title-insurance claims, professional negligence, and commercial law as well as in matters relating to corporate-partnership formations and trusts and estates.