Heather is the firm's Tax Credits Team leader. She primarily concentrates her practice on affordable housing and community development, 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 national 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 for-profit and not-for-profit developers and local housing authorities in the acquisition, development, sale, and financing of affordable housing and community development projects and historic tax credit projects, including conventional and subsidized construction mortgage loans from private-sector and governmental sources, negotiation of construction agreements, and the application for and negotiation of property tax exemptions and PILOT agreements.
Heather has a deep understanding of the myriad of complex legal issues that are often involved in housing and community development matters. She assists clients with their agreements with the New York State Housing Trust Fund Corporation, New York State Housing Finance Agency, State of New York Mortgage Agency, New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development, the New York City Housing Authority, US Department of Agriculture Rural Development, US Department of Housing and Urban Development, and other financing agencies across the country. In addition, Heather guides her development clients through permanent take-out financing as well as converting construction loans to the permanent phase.
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.