As we continue our commitment to providing the highest quality of legal representation to our clients, we’re excited to announce that Finder Novick Kerrigan has combined with Braverman Greenspun, a leading representative of condominium and cooperative boards in New York for more than 50 years. Please read more in the full announcement on the Braverman Greenspun website.
about us
ORIGINALLY FOUNDED IN 1983, over the last several decades the firm has expanded its various practice areas, particularly its cooperative/condominium and real estate practices. While we are known for our expertise in all areas of residential and commercial real estate law and litigation, including representation of cooperative and condominium boards, transactional matters, commercial leasing, and landlord-tenant law, we are also widely experienced in the general practice of law and serve a diverse group of business entities and individuals in a broad range of businesses.
The senior partners of the firm have practiced over 30 years each.
The firm consists of three partners assisted by a legal support staff. The firm's attorneys have participated as speakers and contributors in programs presented by various Bar Associations, professional groups and community organizations. A collaborative and creative firm culture permits each lawyer to share in the firm's collective capabilities.
practice areas
REAL ESTATE AND HOUSING LAW
The real estate and housing law practice provides a broad spectrum of legal services to our clients. We represent various businesses, real estate entities, developers, trade associations and individuals, and serve these clients in all types of simple and complex real estate transactions, including secured and unsecured loans, commercial and retail leasing, building sales and purchases, operating agreements and apartment and house purchases and sales.
GENERAL PRACTICE OF LAW
Our general practice offers expertise in a wide array of corporate and commercial settings, as well as in individual legal and business matters. The firm is responsive to clients in all of their corporate, legal and business relationships, including the formation, negotiation, structuring, documentation and operation of business arrangements. Our client-sensitive, solution-driven approach develops close working relationships with clients and allows us to comprehensively address long-term legal and business goals.
LITIGATION
The members of the litigation practice combine the skills of seasoned litigators with common-sense judgment aimed at resolving disputes favorably for clients through cost effective and comprehensive solutions. The firm's litigation work includes commercial and business litigation, real estate matters, landlord-tenant disputes, as well as public interest issues. Our attorneys handle both large and small cases, and practice in the Federal and State courts in New York, and before administrative agencies and arbitration panels.
COOPERATIVE AND CONDOMINIUM BOARD REPRESENTATION
The firm currently represents over 200 cooperative and condominium boards in buildings ranging in size from four units to 450 units. We work closely with boards, as trusted advisers, to address the myriad issues involved in the operation of these complex entities. We prepare and review contracts with contractors and architects/engineers for capital replacements or improvements work, with managing agents and commercial tenant leases. We provide counsel, based on our decades of experience, concerning the interpretation and implementation of governing documents (cooperative proprietary leases and by-laws; condominium declaration and by-laws).
partners
MICHAEL R. FINDER
is the firm's founding member, and has shaped the firm's development since 1983. He concentrates his practice in the areas of cooperative and condominium board representation, commercial and residential real estate, including leasing, all types of purchase and sales transactions, financing, and workouts.
Mr. Finder has lectured extensively and has been interviewed and quoted on numerous occasions in the New York press, radio and other media. He is a 1980 graduate of Brooklyn Law School.
email: mfinder@fnklaw.com
THOMAS P. KERRIGAN
has a broad-based practice, with particular concentrations in real estate law, cooperative and condominium representation and general litigation. His real estate practice includes the range of residential and commercial transactions and he serves as counsel to numerous cooperative and condominium boards. He practices extensively at the trial and appellate levels in the New York State and federal courts and has been involved as trial or appellate counsel in many significant cases.
Before coming to the firm, Mr. Kerrigan held a number of positions in public interest law offices, specializing particularly in housing law. He is a 1977 graduate of New York University School of Law and has been a member of the firm since 1986.
email: tkerrigan@fnklaw.com
BEN FLAVIN
provides general counsel on the complicated governance and management issues faced daily by co-op and condo boards and by coop shareholders and condo unit owners. Ben has particular expertise in Housing Development Fund Corporations (“HDFCs”) and represents HDFC Boards throughout New York City. Ben also handles numerous real estate transactions, from complex land and building sales and purchases to condo and coop apartment transactions.
Ben actively participates in several committees that focus on real estate, co-ops and condos, and affordable housing. He is a 2009 graduate of CUNY School of Law.
email: bflavin@fnklaw.com
contact us
Telephone
Address
Finder Novick Kerrigan LLP
110 East 42nd Street
Suite 1700
New York, NY 10017