Nancy Ann Connery
Partner
Nancy Connery’s area of concentration is real estate law. She has a general real estate practice and has represented individuals, public and private companies, utilities, and not-for-profit entities in a variety of real estate matters, including:
Leasing and Other Space Transactions: Ms Connery has negotiated office, loft, retail, and industrial space leases, garage leases, ground leases, easements, and licenses.
Purchases and Sales: As part of her commercial practice Ms. Connery also has represented clients in the purchase and sale of office buildings, loft buildings, industrial buildings, and other commercial space; negotiated tenant buyouts in connection with such acquisitions; and overseen the real estate aspects of government-granted economic benefits. Ms. Connery also represents her private and corporate clients in the purchase and sale of residential real estate, including cooperative apartments, condominiums, and houses.
Lending: She has represented both lenders and borrowers in residential and commercial mortgage loans.
Cooperatives and Condominiums: Ms Connery’s practice includes conversions of buildings to cooperatives, and the general representation of both cooperatives and condominiums.
General: Ms. Connery’s real estate practice involves her in a variety of real estate related matters, including brokerage issues, construction issues, trespass claims, partition litigation, and other matters.
Before practicing law, Ms. Connery taught high school biology, chemistry and physics.
Bar and Community Service:
Member, American College of Real Estate Lawyers
Faculty Member, Real Estate Institute, New York University (1987-1990)
Lecturer, Practicing Law Institute, ALI-ABA (Real Estate)
Association of the Bar of the City of New York (Former Chair, Committee on Real Property Law; former Chair, Committee on Cooperative and Condominium Law)
New York State Bar Association: Member, Executive Committee, Cooperative and Condominium Law Committee, and Commercial Leasing Committee. Ms. Connery has participated in the drafting of a model form of mortgage opinion, model contract of sale for cooperative apartment, model form of sublease and over landlord consent, model form of office lease, model form of contract of sale for a commercial office building, and a model form of ground lease. She also chaired a Task Force that evaluated proposed cooperative disclosure legislation.
Member, American Bar Association
Publications & Speaking Engagements:
"Tenant Buyouts," NYSBA N.Y. Real Property Law Journal, Winter 2008, Vol. 36, No. 1.
Chapter Author, “Negotiating and Drafting Office Leases” (Law Journal Seminars-Press).
“Tips for Negotiating the Small Office Space Lease,” The Practical Real Estate Lawyer, November 2005.
“Courtesy, Professionalism and Ethics: E-mail, the Internet and Computers,” Fall 2002 N.Y. Real Property Law Journal (New York State Bar Association).
"Evicting Defaulting Sponsors and Investors and Terminating Their Interests,” Metes and Bounds (publication of Real Property Law Committee of the The Association of the Bar of the City of New York).
Chapter Author, Practicing Law Institute Handbook series (chapters on security deposits, bankruptcy boilerplate leasing concepts; subleases; letters of credit, leasehold mortgage financing, and construction issues).
Speaker, programs on commercial leasing and other aspects of real estate law sponsored by the Practicing Law Institute, ALI-ABA, the New York State Bar Association, and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Topics she has covered include compliance with laws, construction issues, bankruptcy, security, letters of credit, the Americans with Disabilities Act, ground leases, and assignment and subleasing. She has also participated in panels on residential transactions and lending transactions.
