Success Stories

HBA successfully defeated a legal challenge asserted under the Religious Corporation Law by a member of a synagogue who sought to invalidate as unreasonable a real estate purchase contract between HBA’s client, as buyer, and a synagogue.

HBA, representing the sponsor/developer of a 1,100 unit golf course senior community, won summary judgment declaring that the sponsor was entitled under the by-laws of the homeowners association to continue to control the HOA board of directors until all homes in the community were sold.

Representing one of the foremost not for profit providers of senior congregate housing in the region, HBA successfully negotiated and closed a complex $326 million IDA financing transaction in connection with a proposed not- for- profit senior congregate care facility located in the Town of North Hempstead.

In a recent decision issued by the Appellate Division, First Department, HBA prevailed against the New York City Department of Buildings Commissioner who illegally revoked a Hoist Machine Operator’s License after wrongfully concluding that the licensee’s past criminal conviction demonstrated poor moral character adversely reflecting on his fitness to hold public license under the New York City Administrative Code.