G&C is an exclusive real estate and business boutique law firm focused on the success of its clients. Representative clients range from start-ups and growing entities to fortune 500 companies, high net worth individuals, entertainment artists to large secular and non-secular, non-profit organizations.
With skillful mediation and arbitration, G&C resolves clients’ complex disputes that may arise in business, corporate and commercial real estate transactions. The firm has an exceptionally high percentage of resolved cases in which attorneys—seasoned, professional mediators—help clients regain control and complete transactions successfully and without hard feelings. Effective and discreet, G&C mediation services transform conflicts and misunderstandings into win-win solutions.
Regardless of the size of your company, the formation and operation of your business is critically important to your success. G&C assists clients in all stages of their business formation, planning, financing and operation. We will help our clients make formation decisions to form a closely held business, a limited liability company (LLC), a partnership, a corporation or a series of such entities for maximum efficiency and protection. We help clients prepare exit strategies and assist in addressing issues that most clients never foresee.
We also advise our clients regarding directors’ and officers’ liability, dissolution, reorganization, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, business successions, and shareholders’ rights. We can assist you with the sale or purchase of new or existing businesses as well as with the preparation and negotiating of all types of business agreements.
G&C provides a broad variety of services to our business and commercial law clients including:
Scott A. Chaplan, founding partner of Greene and Chaplan, LLP, has been a licensed real estate broker, property owner, developer and agent for over 30 years. Mr. Chaplan has a busy mediation and litigation calendar and brings deep expertise in development, construction defect, broker professional negligence, and business disputes. His mediations secure the highest level of expertise and consultation on business, real estate and consumer law issues. Mediation services include:
G&C efficiently handles litigation and consistently prevails for the benefit of its client’s interests in practice areas including:
Committed to contributing to community service and urban renewal, G&C The firm has provided since its formation a specialized concentration in legal services for tax-exempt and charitable organizations, including faith-based non-profits. The firm’s attorneys are among the nation’s leaders in the field and provide a unique depth of knowledge and resources for the variety of legal concerns and challenges that non-profits regularly encounter. This expertise helps non-profit leaders avoid the prohibitive legal fees they regularly encounter, while ensuring the benefit from reliable and experienced legal, financial and business advocates who have in most instances, experienced the challenges these growing organizations regularly face. G&C offers non-profit legal services that include:
G&C represents clients in all types of real estate transactions, including financing, acquisition and development, commercial multi-tenant, office and mixed use, disposition of real property, conversions, landlord and tenant representation, mediation, entitlements, task force and tax-deferred exchanges. In addition, the firm is experienced at resolving disputes involving conflicts among parties to a contracts, CC&R restrictions, land zoning, land use and development and property nuisances.
The firm’s attorneys have broad experience in complex real estate litigation involving purchasers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, landlords and tenants, subtenants, municipalities and property managers as well as construction defect litigation.
Attorneys of our firm have acted as principals as well as legal counsel in hundreds of real estate and business transactions giving us a perspective edge and as businessmen as well as attorneys. We are intimately familiar with what it takes to transform undeveloped property into income-producing property and have an understanding of real estate construction and development process that exceeds other traditional real estate attorney’s services.
Real Estate Financing
Representation of lenders and borrowers in: Acquisition, Construction, Permanent, Refinances, Residential and Commercial, Conventional and Private
Commercial Real Estate Restructuring/ Workouts
negotiating, bargaining, and problem solving to reach creative and efficient results; representation of both lenders and borrowers have provided us a unique perspective of the goals and objectives of each party to a real estate workout
Real Estate Development
all types of transactions in the development process, from land planning, entitlement and due diligence through land acquisition and assemblage, project finance (interim, permanent, public or private), entity selection and formation, design and construction, leasing and disposition.
Construction Contracts
construction and surety contracts, and advice in resolving construction and surety disputes; drafting appropriate contracts with sureties, contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers and consultants, and in resolving contract disputes, lien issues and surety claims; safeguard anticipated project costs, protect project timetables and guard against litigation risk.
Real Estate Litigation
Many of our clients are directly or indirectly involved in the real estate business which generate real estate disputes of all kinds, necessitating our active real estate litigation practice. Disputes involve properties including office buildings, shopping centers, restaurants, apartments, condominiums, raw land, and residential housing; title disputes, deed restrictions, zoning, boundary disputes, partition agreements, lease violations, adverse possession, foreclosures, lien priority disputes, lien validity disputes, lis pendens actions, options, rights of first refusal, commission disputes, unrecorded instruments, forgeries, bankruptcy issues, mechanics liens, fraudulent conveyances, and trespass.
G&C's attorneys have deep experience representing financial institutions, including banks, thrift and loan associations, savings and loan associations, commercial finance lenders and private equity lenders. G&C also represents entities and high net worth individuals with regard to both their dealings with financial institutions and family, offices in instances where they seek to participate in private equity transactions.
The broad range of banking and financial services provided by the firm include:
G&C's corporate services cover a vast array of matters, commencing with entity formation of corporate and limited liability company entities. The Firm advises its clients with respect to proper operational oversight, risk mitigation, corporate governance practices, employment and labor matters, records management, insurance and employment practices liability issues.
The business litigation aspect of G&C's services to its business clients include breach of contract claims, trade disparagement, intellectual property actions, unfair competition, tortious interference with contractual relations, protection of trade secrets, lease disputes, business real property disputes, landlord-tenant disputes, defense of wrongful termination, harassment and other employment - related claims. The Firm's services with regard to such matters include litigation in both State and Federal Court, in arbitration, mediation and before government entity tribunals.
G&C's attorneys are partners and associates with extensive experience in mediation, thus enabling G&C to vigorously represent its clients' needs, while at the same time developing strategies for cost effective resolution of litigation disputes by invoking the mediation and other alternative dispute resolution processes, including arbitration and utilization of the services of private retired jurists.
With skillful mediation and arbitration, G&C resolves clients’ complex disputes that may arise in business, corporate and commercial real estate transactions. The firm has an exceptionally high percentage of resolved cases in which attorneys—seasoned, professional mediators—help clients regain control and complete transactions successfully and without hard feelings. Effective and discreet, G&C mediation services transform conflicts and misunderstandings into win-win solutions.
Regardless of the size of your company, the formation and operation of your business is critically important to your success. G&C assists clients in all stages of their business formation, planning, financing and operation. We will help our clients make formation decisions to form a closely held business, a limited liability company (LLC), a partnership, a corporation or a series of such entities for maximum efficiency and protection. We help clients prepare exit strategies and assist in addressing issues that most clients never foresee.
We also advise our clients regarding directors’ and officers’ liability, dissolution, reorganization, joint ventures, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, business successions, and shareholders’ rights. We can assist you with the sale or purchase of new or existing businesses as well as with the preparation and negotiating of all types of business agreements.
G&C provides a broad variety of services to our business and commercial law clients including:
Scott A. Chaplan, founding partner of Greene and Chaplan, LLP, has been a licensed real estate broker, property owner, developer and agent for over 30 years. Mr. Chaplan has a busy mediation and litigation calendar and brings deep expertise in development, construction defect, broker professional negligence, and business disputes. His mediations secure the highest level of expertise and consultation on business, real estate and consumer law issues. Mediation services include:
G&C efficiently handles litigation and consistently prevails for the benefit of its client’s interests in practice areas including:
Committed to contributing to community service and urban renewal, G&C has provided since its formation a specialized concentration in legal services for tax-exempt and charitable organizations, including faith-based non-profits. The firm’s attorneys are among the nation’s leaders in the field and provide a unique depth of knowledge and resources for the variety of legal concerns and challenges that non-profits regularly encounter. This expertise helps non-profit leaders avoid the prohibitive legal fees they regularly encounter, while ensuring the benefit from reliable and experienced legal, financial and business advocates who have in most instances, experienced the challenges these growing organizations regularly face. G&C offers non-profit legal services that include:
G&C represents clients in all types of real estate transactions, including financing, acquisition and development, commercial multi-tenant, office and mixed use, disposition of real property, conversions, landlord and tenant representation, mediation, entitlements, task force and tax-deferred exchanges. In addition, the firm is experienced at resolving disputes involving conflicts among parties to a contracts, CC&R restrictions, land zoning, land use and development and property nuisances.
The firm’s attorneys have broad experience in complex real estate litigation involving purchasers and sellers, lenders and borrowers, landlords and tenants, subtenants, municipalities and property managers as well as construction defect litigation.
Attorneys of our firm have acted as principals as well as legal counsel in hundreds of real estate and business transactions giving us a perspective edge and as businessmen as well as attorneys. We are intimately familiar with what it takes to transform undeveloped property into income-producing property and have an understanding of real estate construction and development process that exceeds other traditional real estate attorney’s services.
Real Estate Financing
Representation of lenders and borrowers in: Acquisition, Construction, Permanent, Refinances, Residential and Commercial, Conventional and Private
Commercial Real Estate Restructuring/ Workouts
Negotiating, bargaining, and problem solving to reach creative and efficient results; representation of both lenders and borrowers have provided us a unique perspective of the goals and objectives of each party to a real estate workout
Real Estate Development
All types of transactions in the development process, from land planning, entitlement and due diligence through land acquisition and assemblage, project finance (interim, permanent, public or private), entity selection and formation, design and construction, leasing and disposition.
Construction Contracts
Construction and surety contracts, and advice in resolving construction and surety disputes; drafting appropriate contracts with sureties, contractors, subcontractors, architects, engineers and consultants, and in resolving contract disputes, lien issues and surety claims; safeguard anticipated project costs, protect project timetables and guard against litigation risk.
Real Estate Litigation
Many of our clients are directly or indirectly involved in the real estate business which generate real estate disputes of all kinds, necessitating our active real estate litigation practice. Disputes involve properties including office buildings, shopping centers, restaurants, apartments, condominiums, raw land, and residential housing; title disputes, deed restrictions, zoning, boundary disputes, partition agreements, lease violations, adverse possession, foreclosures, lien priority disputes, lien validity disputes, lis pendens actions, options, rights of first refusal, commission disputes, unrecorded instruments, forgeries, bankruptcy issues, mechanics liens, fraudulent conveyances, and trespass.
G&C's attorneys have deep experience representing financial institutions, including banks, thrift and loan associations, savings and loan associations, commercial finance lenders and private equity lenders. G&C also represents entities and high net worth individuals with regard to both their dealings with financial institutions and family, offices in instances where they seek to participate in private equity transactions.
The broad range of banking and financial services provided by the firm include:
G&C's corporate services cover a vast array of matters, commencing with entity formation of corporate and limited liability company entities. The Firm advises its clients with respect to proper operational oversight, risk mitigation, corporate governance practices, employment and labor matters, records management, insurance and employment practices liability issues.
The business litigation aspect of G&C's services to its business clients include breach of contract claims, trade disparagement, intellectual property actions, unfair competition, tortious interference with contractual relations, protection of trade secrets, lease disputes, business real property disputes, landlord-tenant disputes, defense of wrongful termination, harassment and other employment - related claims. The Firm's services with regard to such matters include litigation in both State and Federal Court, in arbitration, mediation and before government entity tribunals.
G&C's attorneys are partners and associates with extensive experience in mediation, thus enabling G&C to vigorously represent its clients' needs, while at the same time developing strategies for cost effective resolution of litigation disputes by invoking the mediation and other alternative dispute resolution processes, including arbitration and utilization of the services of private retired jurists.
