Helene Pangalos – Top Attorney

Attorney Helene Pangalos has spent over 25 years in the practice of real estate transactional law, with an emphasis in commercial leasing, and commercial acquisitions and sales and residential acquisitions and sales. She is able to use her extensive contacts, knowledge and experience to solve a problem and otherwise add value to almost any transaction on behalf of her clients.

Helene Pangalos is admitted to practice law in the State of New York since 1989. She primarily represents tenants in their office lease negotiations with landlords in the New York City area. Industries for such companies range from entertainment (including new media, production and post-production companies) to medical (including physical therapy, dermatology, acupuncture and chiropractic) to traditional office leasing for hedge fund, accounting, legal, architectural, insurance and engineering companies. Additionally, Helene negotiates bar, lounge and restaurant leases as well as retail store front leases.

Ms. Pangalos uses her expertise and bases her decision in commercial real estate on one key question – How does the client plans to utilize the space – both today and in the future. She discusses the nature of the business with the client and their planned growth for the company and keeps in mind the most flexibility of the space on behalf of her clients.

Ms. Pangalos also represents buyers and sellers of co-op’s, condos and brownstones in NYC. For either first time home buyers or sophisticated investors, Helene understands that the purchase or sale of one’s home is a significant milestone in most people’s lives, and her review and advocacy on behalf of her clients is similar regardless of price or circumstance She maintains constant communication with a buyer’s lender from their initial approval of a project to the final clearance of the file for closing.

Helene earned her Juris Doctor at St. John’s University School of Law in 1988 and her Bachelor of Arts, cum laude from New York University, School of Arts and Science, in 1985.

At St John’s, Helene was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Law and while at NYU, Helene was a four-year University Scholar and was awarded the Founders Award Outstanding Scholar Award upon graduation.

Helene has lectured on the “Legal Aspects of Opening up a Restaurant” at a restaurant conference and on the specifics of New York loan documents for co-op apartments and mortgage modifications and consolidation agreements for an institutional lender. She is also a frequent speaker for various industry organizations on issues relating to purchases and sales and for company personnel considering first time home purchases or sophisticated 1031 tax free exchanges.