Day Pitney Receives Top-Tier Rankings in 2025 Edition of Best Law Firms®
November 7, 2024
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Day Pitney's real estate, environmental and land use lawyers offer a full spectrum of legal services. Representative clients include international, national, regional, and local entities as well as individual investors. We provide legal counsel to a broad range of commercial enterprises, including financial institutions, utilities (energy, water, telecommunications), Fortune 500 companies, manufacturing companies, academic institutions, hospitality and retail companies, religious organizations, lending institutions, property owners, and real estate developers.
Real estate, environmental, and land use services include:
- Complex real estate financing
- Acquisition, disposition, and leasing of all types of real estate
- Joint venture and real estate investment vehicles
- Construction agreements
- Land use, zoning and development entitlements
- Environmental remediation
- Environmental permitting
- Redevelopment and public/private partnerships agreements
- Regulatory compliance
Our environmental and land use litigators are able to assist with whatever legal challenges you may face. Our extensive and comprehensive experience includes matters in the following areas:
- Regulatory enforcement
- Personal injury, property damage, and business interruption
- Toxic tort litigation and class actions
- Defense of Potentially Responsible Parties
- Cost recovery and allocation litigation and negotiation
- Defense of criminal environmental actions
- Zoning, valuation, and other real property-related litigation
- Tax appeals and foreclosures
- Workouts and restructurings
- Condemnations involving environmental contamination
- Environmental ADR and mediation
Day Pitney's real estate, environmental, and land use lawyers have the experience to handle your transactional, litigation and regulatory matters. You are assured attention that meets, and even anticipates, your needs. Our depth of bench and geographical reach provide an ability to deliver on this commitment in an efficient and comprehensive manner.
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When disputes arise and litigation is threatened, we have the depth and resources necessary to diligently protect our clients' interests in any forum, including state and federal courts, and before administrative agencies, as well as in mediations, arbitrations and other alternative dispute resolution forums. We also have the trial experience required to achieve favorable decisions for our clients or to negotiate successful and favorable settlements. While seasoned and ardent advocates for our clients in the courtroom, our trial lawyers are always mindful of the business contexts surrounding our clients' construction projects and disputes, and we work together with our clients to generate strategies and pursue outcomes that address their needs both in the trial arena and on the job site.
Day Pitney's Environmental and Land Use attorneys are experienced in all facets of environmental issues and real estate development. Since the 1970s, we have successfully defended clients in major toxic tort cases, including large class action and multiparty suits.
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Our dedicated ESG practice is committed to assisting businesses in navigating the complex legal and regulatory landscape surrounding sustainability and responsible business practices. Our team consists of environmental, corporate, energy, employment, and litigation attorneys who bring a deep understanding of ESG issues and the evolving legal requirements that companies face. We work closely with our clients to develop tailored strategies that align with their unique goals, values, and industry benchmarks.
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The trial lawyers in Day Pitney’s Real Estate Litigation practice group have years of experience representing corporations of every size and individuals in their real estate-related disputes. The group provides clients with both a multijurisdictional resource and the "local knowledge" that is so critical to successfully pursuing or defending real estate disputes.
Our attorneys have long recognized the importance of redeveloping underutilized properties and returning them to beneficial use while resolving contamination issues.
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Day Pitney's Residential Real Estate practice group focuses on real estate located in Greenwich, CT, Fairfield County, CT, Westchester County, NY, and New York City. The group advises individual clients and developers on all aspects of residential real estate transactions.
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