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REAL ESTATE
Generally
In his practice as a real estate attorney, Mr. Lombardo represents and counsels owners, sellers,
buyers, landlords, tenants, developers, borrowers, and lenders in all
aspects
of real property matters, including residential and commercial real
estate
acquisition and financing, residential and commercial leasing,
commercial property development, industrial development agency
projects, and mortgage
foreclosures. Mr. Lombardo has represented clients not only in
the Buffalo, New York area, but in various other parts of New York State
involving all types of properties.
Mr.
Lombardo is past Chairman of the Real Property Law Committee of the
Erie County (New York) Bar Association and an active member of
its Contract Revision Subcommittee responsible for establishing
the local standard form of residential real estate contract, as most
recently revised, used by Realtors and local attorneys in
residential
real estate transactions. Mr. Lombardo has also provided
assistance in connection with the re-writing of the standard Note and
Mortgage approved for use in residential real estate transactions in
Erie County, New York.
Mr.
Lombardo was instrumental in developing a method with the Clerk of the
County of Erie, New York for the first ever filing of a document in
digital format.
Relevant Experience
Structured, negotiated, administered and closed a contract for the
purchase of commercial property on behalf of a tenant-purchaser from a
Chapter 11 Debtor in Possession landlord-seller involving the exercise
of a right of first refusal and option contained in a Lease, including
successfully repelling a challenge by the Debtor to the rights under
the Lease through threats of rejection of the Lease and threats to
conduct a Bankruptcy auction of the property, and assisting the Debtor
with the preparation of substantial portions of the application to the
Bankruptcy Court that resulted in approval of the application for the
structured transaction.
Successfully closed transactions involving the Erie County
Industrial Development Agency, County of
Monroe Industrial
Development Agency and several local Industrial
Development Agencies,
including new projects, additions and renovations to
existing buildings within a project.
Counsel to a group of companies including multi-national
corporations in the development of an environmentally remediated
landfill site, including preparation of restrictive covenants,
establishing a procedure and preparing necessary documents for the sale
of the site parcels without requiring the group of corporations to take
title to the parcels, and clearing title
problems to make the parcels ready for sale.
Negotiated leases for a number of facilities for a multinational
corporation.
Coordinated a purchaser's acquisition of properties
in several states from a large national waste disposal company.
Assisted
a purchaser in the acquisition of a parcel of land for residential
development in a manner that would enable the future development of
the real estate without having to obtain subdivision approval.
Structured
the sale of properties owned by separate entities to enable a sale of
all parcels to a single purchaser dealing with a single seller in a
manner so as to avoid potential claims of transfers in defraud of
creditors.
Represented a major local bank in
connection with a complex restructure of a transaction to overcome a
construction error that would have resulted in a loss of collateral.
Successfully
completed foreclosures of both residential and commercial real estate.