Ken’s clients range from Fortune 100 automotive manufacturers, global financial institutions and luxury fashion retailers to companies establishing their first presence in New York City. He focuses on commercial real estate, including real estate leasing, finance, development and construction, restructurings, and sales and acquisitions of retail spaces, manufacturing and mixed-use facilities, office buildings, hotel properties, residential developments and shopping centers.
Ken routinely works with office tenants and landlords in connection with multi-story office buildings and office towers. He has helped resolve issues, including specialty HVAC, generator and fire suppression systems designed to protect various artistic media, insurance issues and disputes with contractors. He also handles ground leasing environmentally distressed properties, including issues relating to compliance with federal and state environmental laws, abatement of underground storage tanks (USTs), ground water issues and issues relating to soil contaminants.
Ken has counseled the construction departments of clients with respect to architectural agreements, general contractor and subcontractor agreements, allocation of build-out responsibility, land use and zoning approvals, and overseas fabrication of point-of-purchase and sign fixtures.
His work with clients has included training in-house real estate personnel with respect to transactions such as estoppel requests, non-disturbance agreements, storage agreements and temporary licenses, creation of standard forms of lease abstracts, establishment of procedures for review and processing of leases, insurance coverages and risk management.
Ken also assists clients related to a variety of disputes, including rent arbitrations, gross sales and CAM audits; construction disputes, including mechanic’s lien issues, warranty claims and construction delays; items of additional rent and other charges; zoning and licensing issues, default notices and obtaining landlord’s consent to transfers. Ken also has specific experience dealing with allocation of environmental remediation responsibility and responding to “Yellowstone” injunctions.
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