Representative Assignments:

 

• Probate Court trial of a will contest and serve as co-executor under ensuing compromise will
• Superior Court suit by restaurant client against contractor over defective work and tardy completion
• Superior Court suit between warehouse client and bank over rights in equipment left on the premises by insolvent tenant
• Convert apartments into condominiums
• Represent partner in a Scottish fish processing company
• Special Administration of estate subject to a will dispute
• Land Court suit between client conservation land trust and a housing developer
• Represent public agency lender in affordable housing financings
• Issue title insurance policies as agent of Stewart Title Guaranty Company
• Land Court suit to quiet title based on client's adverse possession
• Will that creates a conservation restriction upon testator's death
• Land Court suit between adjoining condominium owners over space transferred from one unit to the other by previous owner of both units

Corporate and other Business Services:

Organization

• Formations:  business, charitable, professional, S corp, LLC, partnership   
• Subscription Agreements
• Affiliations: parent/subsidiary, contractual, shareholder, director
• Real estate syndications
• Federal and State Non Profit qualifications for exemptions and deductibility of contributions
• Multi state affiliations (choice of entity, tax planning)

Reorganization

• Plan and implement reorganizations, mergers, consolidations 
• Preferred stock buy outs
• Tax free and taxable exchanges of stock for property
• Stock buyout agreements and generational family business transfers

Operations

• Securities Acts exemptions, opinions, filings
• Trade mark registration, enforcement
• Asset and stock acquisitions, sales
• Intellectual property
• Employee stock options
• Employment contracts
• Dissolutions, Liquidations
• Insolvencies 
• Business and personal tax planning 
• Financings: equity, venture capital, debt, workouts 
• Franchises
• Employment discrimination
• Security interests in equipment, inventories, securities, leases, licenses, intangibles
• Liquor licensing

Real Estate Services

• Residential/Commercial purchases, sales, leases
• Ownership Entities:  LLC, Trust, Corporation, Partnership, Limited Partnership
• Condominiums/Cooperatives:
  • Conversions of rental property to ownership property
  • Draft master deeds, bylaws, condominium trusts, cooperative corporation documents
  • Condominium association representation: collect unpaid fees, enforce bylaws, 
  • Unit Owner representation: disputes with association 
• Zoning and Subdivision:
• • Obtain/oppose variances, special permits, map changes
  • Obtain/oppose subdivision approvals and ANR determinations
  • Draft zoning bylaws and ordinances
  • Provide zoning opinions
  • Appeals
• Affordable Housing:
  • Financings: HOME, 202, §8, HAP, HSF, MHP, MHIC, DHCD 
  • Sponsor/Developer/Lender representation
  • Tax credit syndications
  • Ownership entities: Limited Partnership, LLC, 180, 156B, 156A
  • Affordable housing covenants, restrictions
  • 40B
• Shopping Center/Office leases: Owners/Tenants
• Mortgage and other lien foreclosures
• Preservation restrictions: conservation, agricultural, historic
• Construction contracts - Owner/Contractor
• Architect Contracts - Owner/Architect
• Environmental opinions
• Like-kind exchanges
• Form and manage development team - contractor, architect, investor, lawyer
• Title examination, certification
• Title insurance (agent for Stewart Title Guaranty Company)

Litigation

Successful recoveries:

• Damages from contractor for defective restaurant remodeling and delays
• Damages from builder for incomplete home construction items
• Damages from warehouse tenant?s bank after tenant became insolvent and bank delayed  removal of liened equipment and removed fixtures upon which bank had not perfected a lien
• Payment on purchase money promissory note after attaching and executing on
  • numerous real estate parcels
• Recovery on fraudulent investment scheme
• Recovery of dismissed attorney?s share of insurance award
• Casualty and personal injury claims against insurers
• 93A consumer protection claims
• Will contest
• Remove Cloud on Title
• Attachments, restraining orders, injunctions

Additional Services

• Wills
• Estate administration
• Ante nuptial agreements
• Co-Habitation agreements
• Guardianship
• Evictions
• Municipal employee contract negotiations
• Election law