III.

Practice of the Firm

Real Estate

Acquisition, development, and dispute over land of consequence.

The approach.

The practice acts for owners, developers, and family holdings in the acquisition, financing, and development of significant property — and in the disputes that attend land worth fighting over.

Title is read the way the litigation practice reads a record: completely. The practice has never lost a client's title.

Representative Matters

2022 — Hudson Yards parcel assemblage — Nine parcels, one closing, no litigation.

2015 — Confidential ground-lease arbitration — Rent reset at 40% below demand.

1987 — Whitfield Wharf redevelopment — The waterfront entitlement that made the practice's name.

A selection. Most of the practice’s engagements remain, by design, confidential.

The Practice Is Led By

Sarah E. Whitfield

If the matter is serious, so are we.

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PRECEDENT

Attorneys & Counsellors at Law · Est. 1948

Offices

New York

748 Madison Avenue

New York, NY 10065

Wilmington

1201 N. Market Street

Wilmington, DE 19801

Washington

1601 K Street NW

Washington, DC 20006

Attorneys of the firm are admitted in New York, Delaware, and the District of Columbia, and before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Second, Third, and Ninth Circuits and the Supreme Court of the United States.

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