Biography
Mitchell D. Haddad, a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation Department, is Chair of New York Real Estate Litigation. He focuses on complex real estate and commercial litigation, creditors’ rights, workouts and corporate litigation. He has first chaired numerous trials, argued appeals and participated in arbitrations and mediations on a wide variety of matters. He works with clients and the Firm’s Real Estate Department on transactions in order to resolve issues and disputes prior to and as a means to resolve potential litigation.
Mr. Haddad represents domestic and international companies, lenders, borrowers, real estate owners and developers, and commercial landlords and tenants. He prosecutes, defends and advises on complex commercial mortgage and UCC foreclosure actions, valuation proceedings, vendor-purchaser litigation, complex commercial landlord-tenant matters, Fair Housing Act and housing discrimination matters, not-for-profit and religious corporation transaction approval proceedings, zoning, title and land use issues, mechanic’s lien litigation, and general commercial torts, partnership, joint venture and corporate litigation and matters involving real estate entities.
Since 2012, Mr. Haddad has been selected for inclusion in New York Metro Super Lawyers®* published by Thomson Reuters under Real Estate: Business and Business Litigation. He has also been selected for inclusion in the 2022-2025 editions of The Best Lawyers in America®* published by Best Lawyers under Commercial Litigation and Real Estate Law. He is admitted to practice in New York and New Jersey, as well as before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern District of New York, Eastern District of New York and District of New Jersey, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.