Elise Wagner is co-chair of Kramer Levin’s Land Use department. She advises real estate owners and developers and nonprofit institutions regarding the land use issues they face when planning and developing new buildings, and when rehabilitating and repositioning existing buildings. Elise’s work encompasses: coordinating the public approval processes for major public-private development projects involving cooperation between private developers and New York City and state agencies, consulting about the most efficient and cost-effective strategies for obtaining approval of use changes and enlargements, negotiating multiparty transactions for the transfer of development rights, and performing due diligence for the purchase and financing of major properties.