Ian J. Brandt, Esq.

What Makes Ian J. Brandt Uniquely Qualified To Represent You?

Ian J. Brandt is a partner and practices co-op and condominium law, residential and commercial real estate litigation and counseling, and landlord-tenant law. He represents co-op and condo boards throughout New York, as well as many individual apartment owners in the enforcement of their rights. He also navigates his clients through the complex terrain of property insurance coverage for both homeowners’ policies and large real property indemnity polices that insure residential multiple dwellings and commercial properties.

Ian guides co-ops and condos in all matters of governance, including review and negotiation of building contracts, insurance claims and coverage analysis, casualty damages and property losses, mortgage refinancing, election disputes, review and analysis of corporate governing documents, alterations, construction and owner issues, apartment unit transfer matters, assists co-ops and condos when issues arise in connection with a sale including negotiation of trust and estate documents, assignment of alteration agreements or other transfer rights.

He also brings a wealth of knowledge about how landlords and developers calculate the value of real estate, including lease buyouts, about what tenants can financially achieve in return for relinquishing their valuable leasehold rights to landlords, and he successfully negotiates to maximize value for his clients.

Ian is well versed in insurance law as it pertains to real estate. He firmly believes that insurance companies routinely and improperly deny coverage for losses and under-adjust or under-indemnify for these losses, particularly with floods and fires, to the detriment of co-ops, condos, and other property owners and tenants. He vigorously advocates for policyholders to maximize indemnification rights under insurance policies. Unlike many of his competitors in co-op and condo law, he has extensive litigation experience, on behalf of owners and associations, in bringing coverage actions against insurers.

Ian is seasoned in complex water and fire casualty and construction defects in residential co-ops and condos, insurance coverage actions, Pullman-type lease terminations, shareholder disputes, condo disputes over use of common elements and common interest allocations, noise and private nuisances, constructive evictions, breach of the warranty of habitability and fair housing discrimination. He also provides counseling and litigation services in connection with condo and co-op governance and election law disputes, challenges to by-laws and other corporate documents, challenges to corporate actions by Article 78 proceedings, preliminary injunction and declaratory judgment actions, condo lien foreclosures, arbitration and mediation, housing discrimination, zoning and land use issues, commercial and residential landlord-tenant matters.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Brandt was a Partner Davidoff Hutcher & Citron LLP (2022-2025), a Partner at Wagner, Berkow & Brandt, LLP, (2015-2022), he was Counsel to Porzio Bromberg & Newman (2013-2015) and began his career as an Associate with Braverman Greenspun, P.C. (2003 to 2013).