Newmark Valuation & Advisory Network has launched a Litigation Support & Consulting practice and named Raymond Cirz as its practice leader. In this role, Cirz wil oversee the Litigation Support & Consulting practice, strengthen and expand client relationships, and develop new business growth opportunities. Based in New York City, Cirz will continue to partner with Matthew S. Krauser CRE, FRICS to provide strategic consulting services across all commercial real estate asset types for attorneys, corporations, governmental agencies, tenants and owners in the tri-state New York region. Cirz and Krauser will report to Newmark V&A U.S. Practice Lead Helene Jacobson MAI, MRICS.
“With Ray leading this new Newmark V&A business line, the launch of this practice deepens our offerings and continues to establish our team as go-to experts from coast to coast,” said Jacobson. “This team’s successful track record as expert witnesses in the courtroom, along with Newmark V&A’s nationwide network of appraisal resources across all commercial real estate, differentiates Newmark V&A’s litigation support services.”
The practice’s experts are seasoned consultants, specializing in complex assignments such as air rights, pipelines, easements, options and leaseholds, ground leases and other various property interests. The team also provides services such as estate planning, arbitration/meditation, borrower and lender disputes, bankruptcy reorganization, title disputes, rebuttal expert reports, partnership disputes, ad valorem taxation, real estate contract disputes, eminent domain/right-of-way and riparian rights. The national practice comprises 13 litigation appraisal specialists qualified in many courts and panels across the U.S. — including U.S. Bankruptcy Court, U.S. District Court, numerous state superior and tax courts, the American Arbitration Association, condemnation panels and planning boards/boards of adjustments. The professionals have achieved landmark results in wide-ranging cases, including portfolio valuations, air right disputes and ground rent determinations.
