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Vincent O. Hanley, a partner in the Firm's Real Estate, Economic & Land Development, Business & Corporate and Financial Services practice groups, represents developers, lenders, and borrowers in commercial real estate transactions, development projects, leasing, easements & rights-of-way and real estate-related litigation. For more than twenty years, Mr. Hanley has represented clients in complex and unusual real estate transactions, as well as in real estate-related litigation, mortgage foreclosure actions, loan workouts, and commercial financing. Mr. Hanley has extensive experience in negotiating and drafting easements, rights-of-way, declarations of restrictive covenants, commercial leases (including ground leases), construction contracts, architects' agreements and other contracts related to commercial construction projects. In addition to his mortgage foreclosure experience, Mr. Hanley's litigation experience includes litigation concerning leases, easements, and contracts for the sale of real property, real property tax review proceedings, eminent domain proceedings, and zoning litigation.

Education:

State University of New York at Oswego (B.A., cum laude, 1979); State University of New York at Buffalo (J.D., cum laude, 1982)

Admissions:

1983 New York State Bar; 1983 Arizona State Bar; 1983 New York Courts; U.S. District Court, Western District of New York; U.S. Tax Court

Principal Area(s) of Practice:

• Real Estate Acquisitions & Leasing
• Easements & Rights-Of-Way
• Real Estate Taxation
• Zoning and Planning
• Environmental
• Financing
• Foreclosure Law

Experience:

• Chair and speaker, 2008 Lorman Education Services Law of Easements seminar
• Speaker for the Western New York Paralegal Association seminar
• Speaker on Economic & Land Development for the U.B. School of Management
• Chair and speaker, New York State Bar Ass. Seminar on Mortgage Foreclosures and Workouts

Memberships & Offices:

Erie County Bar Association; New York State Bar Association, National Association of College and University Attorneys; state Bar of Arizona

Community Service:

Hilbert College (Board of Trustees, Chair, 2007-08); St. Vincent De Paul Society (Member, Board of Directors); Member, Saints Peter and Paul Church, Williamsville, New York; Member, St. Thomas More Guild; Member, Williamsville Parent-Teachers Association

 Awards and Achievements:

• Listed, Best Lawyers in America (2009 - present)
• Selected for 2009 Upstate New York Super Lawyers
• Selected by Business First for its 2008 edition of Who's Who in Law