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Meigan P. Serle
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- Special Counsel
- New York
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Meigan P. Serle counsels and represents leading developers, lenders and investors in a range of real estate matters, focusing on condominium, cooperative and shared ownership developments. Meigan provides practical, strategic counsel in the development and negotiation of critical equity transactions, helping developers and owners achieve their business and financial goals within the four corners of the condominium structure. She advises on the legal, regulatory and business aspects of the creation, registration, marketing and sale of mixed-use condominium and cooperative public and nonpublic offerings, including the utilization of leasehold condominium structures to enable not-for-profit tenant entities to qualify for exemption from New York City real property taxes. Meigan helps her clients conceptualize, develop and implement sophisticated and often bespoke ownership, operation and management regimes designed to meet the specific and unique needs and financial goals of multiphase development projects, and she also continues to advise them on legal issues that arise throughout the life of the project.
Experience
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Representing the developer of a 73-acre lifestyle destination anchored by a stadium with approximately 25,000 seats, concessions, entertainment and retail areas. The project will include multiple integrated, but individually developed, parcels totaling more than one million square feet of boutique shopping, entertainment experiences, sponsored events, restaurants, hotels and office space as well as public parks and sports fields.
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Advises and represents various condominium aspects of the development of Hudson Yards by The Related Companies and Oxford Properties, which will encompass more than 18 million square feet of commercial and residential space, much of it built over a working rail yard on the West Side of Manhattan. This representation has included the restructuring of the Neiman Marcus space at The Shops and Restaurants at Hudson Yards and the sale of a converted office unit to Wells Fargo, advising with respect to the condominium components of their more than 1.5 million-square-foot lease to Facebook across 30 floors and three buildings at Hudson Yards and with respect to the $565 million sale of the observation deck.
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Represents Mount Sinai, New York University and NYU Langone hospitals,as well as other not-for-profit entities and fee owners, in connection with the creation of tax-exempt fee and leasehold condominium units.
Credentials
Education
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J.D., Cornell Law School, 2011 - Senior Notes Editor, Cornell International Law Journal
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B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Syracuse University, 2008
Bar Admissions
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New York, 2012
Court Admissions
- U.S.D.C., Eastern District of New York
- U.S.D.C., Southern District of New York
Professional Affiliations
- New York State Bar Association, Real Property Law Section, Committee on Condominiums and Cooperatives
- UJA-Federation of New York, Young Lawyers Leadership Committee
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