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• Fish or Fowl

  2/6/19 | By: David I. Faust, Esq.| GDB 2019 Winter Newsletter

  Whether shares representing ownership of a cooperative apartment are real property or personal property has perplexed estate lawyers and their clients, especially when the owner/decedent is a non-domiciliary of New York.  Is succession of the shares governed by the laws of New York, where the co-op is located – the case if the shares are realty – or the laws of the domicile of the decedent?  If there is no will, or if a spouse elects against the will, which law applies?
   
  A recent Supreme Court, New York County, case sheds some, albeit dim, light on this question.

• Anonymous Need Not Apply – Entities Getting Bank Accounts

  2/6/19 | By: Jay L. Hack, Esq.| GDB 2019 Winter Newsletter

  The corporate wizard can no longer hide behind the anonymity curtain. Anonymity disappears when a corporation or other entity deals with a bank. Federal law requires that banks collect information about all 25% owners and at least one senior officer of every entity that opens a deposit account or borrows money from a bank.

• Help! My Co-Op Has No Leader and Might Collapse

  12/29/2018 | The New York Times

  GDB Partner, Beatrice Lesser, is quoted in The New York Times regarding small co-ops without leaders and what can be done to avert a collapse. 

• How a Charming Art Dealer Became a Wanted Fraudster

  12/01/2018 | New York Post

• GDB Launches Cooperative and Condominium Law Blog

  Winter 2019

• Partner Beatrice Lesser Quoted in The New York Times 

  Winter 2019

  In December, partner Beatrice Lesser was quoted in The New York Times regarding small co-ops without leaders and what can be done to avert a collapse.
  Help! My Co-op Has No Leader and Might Collapse

• Winter 2019 Newsletter

  Winter 2019 |  Winter 2019 Legal Update

• Fall 2018 Newsletter

  10/24/18 | GDB 2018 Fall Newsletter

• VIDEO: Legal Game Changers for Boards: Conflict of Interest

  Fall 2018 | Habitat Magazine

  David L. Berkey, Esq., head of GDB's Coop and Condo Law Practice, opining on conflicts of interests for boards

• Insurance for Coops

  2/2018 | Habitat Magazine: David L. Berkey, Esq.

  Senior partner and head of GDB's Cooperative and Condominium Law practice, David L. Berkey, discusses issues related to coops and insurance.