DAVID E. EAGAN & ASSOCIATES PLLC is an AV® rated general practice law firm located in East Hampton, New York. The Firm is widely recognized as a leader in all aspects of real estate, zoning, environmental and land use matters, including litigation. The Firm also maintains a significant practice relating to corporate and business law matters and wills, trusts and estates. The Firm’s practice encompasses the entire East End of Long Island, with particular emphasis on the Town of East Hampton, the Town of Southampton and the Town of Shelter Island and the various Villages located within those East End Towns.
REAL ESTATE
DAVID E. EAGAN & ASSOCIATES PLLC represents clients engaged in real estate transactions involving commercial and residential parcels located throughout Eastern Long Island. While all real estate law is inherently local, this is particularly true in the case of Eastern Long Island where soring land values and complex multi-level regulatory and zoning regulations result in unique and complex transactions that require both the highest professional competency and local knowledge. DAVID E. EAGAN & ASSOCIATES PLLC has a well-earned reputation of providing its clients with these necessity traits. Our Firm has successfully drafted, negotiated and closed hundreds of commercial and residential transactions. Our attorneys have represented sellers, purchasers, lenders, borrowers, developers, landlords and tenants in the full spectrum of commercial and residential real estate transactions, including contracts of sale, option agreements, mortgages and other financings, leases, easements, sales of development rights, transfer of development rights and tax-deferred exchanges.
ZONING, ENVIRONMENTAL AND LAND USE
DAVID E. EAGAN & ASSOCIATES PLLC is a widely recognized leader in guiding landowners through the complex, multi-layered municipal, county and state regulatory process that confronts all landowners seeking to develop or improve commercial and residential properties on Eastern Long Island. Our Firm has successfully completed many of the largest and most complex commercial and residential developments and improvements on the East End over the last fifteen years. The Firm represents landowners from the planning stages through the application process and in any ensuing litigation. We work efficiently with applicants and their various consultants to formulate successful strategies to achieve approval of our client’s applications for permit and approvals from various municipal boards and county and state agencies. We regularly appear before municipal boards and county and state agencies in such efforts. Our successful record of accomplishment in achieving our client’s goals is a direct result of our unique blend of technical expertise, local and regional knowledge and relationships and our over fifteen years of experience successfully handling these complex matters.
DAVID E. EAGAN & ASSOCIATES PLLC regularly represents clients in their pursuit of the following:
Variance applications to municipal zoning boards of appeals;
Subdivision, Site Plan and Special Permit applications to municipal planning boards;
Architectural and historic preservation applications to municipal architectural and historical review boards;
Fresh water and tidal wetlands applications to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and local conservation boards and Town Trustees;
Sanitary applications to the county health department and public water applications to the county water authority; and
Preparation and defense of Environmental Impact statements under the State Environmental Quality Review Act (SEQRA).
LAND USE LITIGATION
DAVID E. EAGAN & ASSOCIATES PLLC maintains a prominent land use litigation practice. We represent clients in all phases of litigation, from planning to commencement of actions and special proceedings through conduct of hearings and trials and to the briefing and argument of appeals. Our litigation practice concentrates on the following types of litigation:
“Article 78” special proceedings challenging or defending final determinations from governmental agencies regarding zoning, environmental and other land use matters;
Title disputes and all contested claims regarding the ownership or use of real property such as adverse possession and prescriptive easement claims, claims involving easements and covenants and restrictions, partition actions, claims involving riparian rights and declaratory judgment actions to quit title;
Contested real estate transactions, including breached contracts of sale, option agreements, specific performance, leases and broker agreements;
Constitutional land use claims, such as “takings”, Equal Protection and Due Process claims; and
Landlord –Tenant matters, including evictions.
CORPORATE AND BUSINESS MATTERS
DAVID E. EAGAN & ASSOCIATES PLLC’s corporate and business practice represents and advises entities, families and individual clients in connection with a broad range of corporate and business transactions and matters. The Firm regularly represents clients in the acquisition and sale of businesses and assets. The Firm also provides expert advice on the planning, formation and administration of business entities, including, corporations, limited liability companies, not-for-profit corporations, partnerships, joint ventures, cooperative corporations, and homeowner associations. The Firm also has extensive experience in drafting and negotiating shareholder, partnership and operating agreements and homeowner’s association covenants and by-laws.
WIILS, TRUSTS AND ESTATES
DAVID E. EAGAN & ASSOCIATES PLLC’s wills, trust and estate practice represents entities, families and individual clients in connection with estate and tax planning matters. The Firm regularly advises clients on a vast array of available estate planning options and drafts the necessary documents that achieve our client’s goals. The estate and tax planning services offered by the Firm include:
Drafting and execution of wills;
Preparing living wills, health care proxies and powers of attorney;
Creating various trusts, including living trusts, life insurance trusts, special needs trusts and trusts for the benefit of minors; and
Creating family limited partnerships and limited liability companies.
The Firm also represents clients in the administration of trusts and the probate of wills.