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Bohdan S. Kosovych (Counsel)

Mr. Kosovych has dealt with commercial real estate matters nationwide, including complex property sales and purchases and the real estate aspects of corporate acquisitions and divestitures. His experience includes ground leasing, retail, office, and warehouse leasing and subleasing transactions for spaces ranging from the smallest to "big box" stores over 100,000 square feet, on behalf of both landlord and tenant entities, as well as shopping center development and commercial condominium work, construction contracts, matters involving Americans with Disabilities Act and environmental issues, and corporate and not-for-profit corporation work.

Mr. Kosovych brings both legal and business experience to his transactional real estate work. Mr. Kosovych was Assistant General Counsel and Assistant Secretary at the Woolworth Corporation, with which he was associated for fifteen years, and he has practiced as an associate in the real estate department of a large law firm. Prior to studying law, he was a real estate salesperson, and he worked for a commercial and residential property management company in Manhattan and for the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Kosovych also was a company commander, battalion adjutant, and acting Judge Advocate General officer in the New York Army Reserve National Guard.

Mr. Kosovych has authored the following articles in Commercial Leasing Law and Strategy: "The Bankruptcy Default Clause," (October 1990); "Deciding Your Subtenant's Fate," (May 1991); "A New Lease by Any Other Name Is Still a New Lease," (September 1991); and "How to Properly Handle Issues of Initial Possession," (July 1993), and he authored the Lease Brokerage chapter in the treatise Negotiating and Drafting Office Leases, by John Busey Wood, Esq. and Alan M. Di Sciullo, Esq. (Law Journal Press), to which he also contributes periodic updates.

He is a graduate of Richmond College, City University of New York (B.A. 1970) and Fordham University School of Law (J.D. 1981). He is fluent in Ukrainian and is familiar with other Slavic languages.