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DanielleKatz

Counsel

"Providing personalized attention to each client allows me to help them reach their goals in an efficient manner. "

Overview

Biography

Danielle concentrates her practice on corporate and tax credit transactions. In her corporate practice, she counsels businesses in their day-to-day governance, drafts documents crucial to business operations, and assists in structuring and negotiating purchase and sale transactions. Danielle employs a detail-oriented, pragmatic approach to leverage legal solutions to fit her clients’ business goals.

This solutions-first mindset informs Danielle’s work on tax credit projects for which she has represented owners, developers, service providers, and investors in affordable housing development and historic rehabilitation. Danielle’s wide-ranging experience with various types of projects and funding stakeholders helps her ensure her clients’ goals are realized through advantageous solutions.

Danielle helps her clients navigate the risks and opportunities of development as well as the corporate, financial, and regulatory obstacles that come with it. Danielle has extensive experience representing for-profit and not-for-profit developers throughout the project life cycle, from acquisition, construction, and project development to preserving affordable and supportive housing projects. In this multidisciplinary space, Danielle adeptly navigates complex relationships and legal issues to bring her clients’ projects to fruition, and she has a demonstrated ability of understanding and interfacing with the many stakeholders required to orchestrate these projects, including public agencies. 

Bar Associations

  • American Bar Association
  • New York State Bar Association

Selected Memberships & Affiliations

  • Barclay Damon Women's Forum
Experience

Representative Experience

  • Represented Federation of Organizations for the New York State Mentally Disabled, Inc. in their participation in the Vital Brooklyn Initiative, including the acquisition, construction, and development of a 121-unit mixed-use development providing affordable housing and supportive services.
  • Represented a private developer in the acquisition of a mixed-use historic rehabilitation project in Syracuse. The project included 92 residential units and 50,000 sq. ft. of commercial space.
  • Represented a Canadian telecommunications engineering and construction firm regarding its formation of a US investment and holding vehicle.
  • Represented a solar project developer in obtaining a credit facility from the New York Green Bank for developing a solar energy project.
  • Represented a buyer in their $1.4 million acquisition of a company developing medical sterilization devices.
  • Represented an electronic security and security hardware distributor in the sale of their assets.

Prior Experience

  • Vontobel Securities Ltd. and Vontobel Swiss Wealth Advisors AG, Summer Legal Intern
  • Syracuse Low-Income Tax Clinic, Student Attorney
  • MSCI Inc., Summer Legal Intern

Selected Honors

  • Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America®: Corporate Law, 2024–2025; Tax Law, 2024–2025
  • Selected to Super Lawyers Upstate New York Rising Stars: Business/Corporate, 2021–2024

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