Amid his litigation practice, Maxwell focuses on providing counsel and strategy for real estate portfolios, trade groups, and developers, often serving as outside general counsel for those clients.  Maxwell has also devoted considerable time to advising well-known artists on business, real estate, and personal matters.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

• Serve as outside strategic counsel to the New York Apartment Association, successor to the Rent Stabilization Association and Community Housing Improvement Program, advising on real-estate industry litigation and legislative initiatives.
• Serve as outside general counsel for owner-operator of 50+ Manhattan properties and its in-house securities investment fund and other affiliate businesses.
• Obtained appellate stay and favorably settled multi-action dispute among general partners over control of ten West Village and Chelsea properties.
• Favorably settled commercial lease and guaranty dispute for renowned restauranteur, based, in part, upon assertion of claims under New York City’s Nonresidential Tenant Harassment Law.
• Obtained preliminary and Yellowstone injunctions for investment group developing upscale restaurant and lounge at a Tribeca loft building.    
• Favorably settled multi-action dispute concerning Tribeca condominium development after obtaining dismissal, on the merits, of adversaries’ claims.
• Defeated, through multiple appeals, a misreading of provisions of the Rent Act of 2015 that sought to re-regulate preferential-rent units deregulated under the Rent Act of 2011.
• Overturned a court’s invalidation of a cooperative corporation share-voting agreement before obtaining both judicial reformation of that agreement and summary judgment awarding possession of the retail proprietary leasehold and directing return of the appurtenant cooperative corporation shares.
• Obtained decisive ruling in business divorce involving LLC owner of a 75-unit West Village property.
• Obtained dismissal of Chapter 11, Subchapter 5 bankruptcy on behalf of cooperative corporation seeking to enforce proprietary lease for prime Broadway retail space in Flatiron District.
• Represented lender in novel action to enforce mortgagee purchase option in a co-op’s 99-year ground lease.