Experience

The Community Church of New York

Secured approval from the Supreme Court of New York granting The Community Church of New York leave to ground lease and then sell certain real property it owns in the Murray Hill neighborhood of Manhattan, paving the way for the church to receive funds it hopes will allow its diverse congregation to survive and thrive, spiritually and financially, well into the future

British Land

Advising British Land on all contentious matters flowing from the largest urban regeneration project in Europe (Canada Water, London), including vacant possession strategy and rights of light issues

Canary Wharf Group Plc

Represented successfully in a claim for in excess of £500 million in unpaid rents and other damages resulting from the Lehman Brothers administration relating to UK property. This was of the single largest property litigation dispute in the UK courts in 2017

ICL Group

Representing Cleveland Potash Limited (part of the ICL Group), owner of the only polyhalite mine in the UK in a claim for compulsory acquisition of property rights under the rarely used Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Act 1966

TAG Farnborough Airport

Defending compensation claims made by a class action of over 200 local residents under the Land Compensation Act 1973, involving novel consideration of certain issues such as the nature of government occupation and the 'purpose' test, as well as issues of estoppel and reliance (UK)

SJP Properties

Secured an Appellate Division, First Judicial Department, decision upholding the permit issued to SJP Properties and Mitsui Fudosan America (collectively, SJP) to construct a new 55-story building at 200 Amsterdam Ave. The Appellate Division’s decision reversed a June 2019 ruling by the Supreme Court that invalidated the permit and ordered the demolition of an unspecified number of previously built floors in the building

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