Sometimes the path to resolution takes clients through unexpected and challenging territory.
After four days of a bench trial in Utica and Rome, NY, Anthony Sodono and Sari B. Placona secured a $7.7 million judgment for a client in a complex financial dispute that unfolded over six years.
Exciting progress is underway in Plainfield as the City celebrates the groundbreaking of its new Recreational and Cultural Center of Excellence.
MS&B attorneys Bakari G. Lee and Malcolm X. Thorpe have once again guided one of our housing authority clients through the successful negotiation and execution of a complex master development agreement. The Housing Authority of Plainfield has formalized a partnership with WinnDevelopment Company to preserve 353 affordable housing units across two residential communities.
MS&B Member Bakari G. Lee and Partner Malcolm X. Thorpe recently led the finalization of a comprehensive redevelopment agreement for the Housing Authority of the City of Passaic, working in partnership with L+M State Street Associates LLC and the Passaic Redevelopment Agency. This tri‑party agreement sets in motion a transformative plan to deliver more than 350 new and rehabilitated housing units at the Alfred Speer Village site.
Clean energy projects rely on two critical pillars: regulatory approvals and favorable financing. But in practice, the timing between them is everything, a missed deadline can jeopardize millions in public benefits.
Recent legislation has opened a faster, more cost‑effective route for New Jersey school districts to fund essential capital projects—and MS&B attorneys Andrea L. Kahn, Christopher B. Langhart, and Amy E. Baumgaertel have already helped two districts put it to work.
Sari B. Placona has been elevated to Member at MS&B, a well‑earned milestone that reflects her outstanding contributions to the firm and to the broader bankruptcy and restructuring community.
25 Unit Grove Gardens facility acquired by HDCBC
Post-compliance LIHTC acquisition secures long-term affordability
