Practice Areas

Transactional: I&H has a sophisticated transactional real estate practice.

We handle: purchases and sales of commercial and residential real property and cooperatives, including multi-million dollar deals; commercial leasing, for both landlords and tenants; and private lending transactions.

We are active on the Commercial Leasing Committee of the Real Property Section of the New York State Bar Association and have done a great deal of writing and teaching in the commercial leasing area. See our Teaching and Publishing Section.

We bring special expertise to transactional work because we are also litigators who represent parties when there is a default under a lease, a contract, or a mortgage. Many transactional document drafters, without the benefit of this experience, spend a lot of time working on clauses without a clear conception as to how such clauses can be enforced. They assume their work will be self-effectuating; it is not. The draftsperson should conduct himself as if every clause will at some time be violated. After all, we live in a very litigious environment in which at some time or another a party to a deal is going to test the limits of what has been written, either because of market forces, because a business is going bad, or just because they like to test. See our Transactional section.