Matthew E. Eiben

• Advised and facilitated a large Greenwich Village cooperative building (120 apartments) in successfully passing a flip tax after nearly a decade of failed efforts.
• Represented a high end cooperative near Sutton Place implementing substantive revamp of their proprietary lease, including successfully adopting a flip tax.
• Regularly counseling and facilitating coop transfers to/from Trusts and/or LLCs, ensuring that appropriate agreements and protections are in place to protect the interests of the cooperative.
• Successfully removed objectionable subtenant from apartment in large Greenwich cooperative building (420 apartments) without the need for litigation, and with attorneys’ fees being paid in full by the subject shareholder.
• Successfully counseled Board of Directors of high-end Cooperative Building on Central Park South in connection with contested election and various legal challenges and attacks in connection with same.
• Advised Board of Managers of a Battery Park condominium in connection with contested election including conducting annual meeting and fielding verbal and written challenges to issues relating to same.
• Provides general counsel to 1,100 apartment complex in Yonkers including, without limitation, issues pertaining to regulatory compliance, discrimination complaints, and tenant disputes.
• Mocal Enterprises Inc. v. Courtney Wall, et al., 2021 WL 1253816 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty.) (Awarding landlord a preliminary injunction against residential tenants concerning objectionable conduct and awarding interim use and occupancy at double the rate set forth in the tenant’s expired lease)
• Vogel v. Vogel, 172 A.D.3d 464, 100 N.Y.S.3d 231 (1st Dept. 2019)
• Ferentino v. CFE 88 LLC, et. al. 2018 WL 66004243 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty. 2018)
• SMJ Associates, LLC v. Taubenfeld, 126 A.D.3d 533, 2015 N.Y. Slip Op. 02060 (1st Dept. 2015)
• DFS of Springfield Inc. v. DiMartino, 40 Misc. 3d 70, 2013 N.Y. Slip Op. 23231 (2nd Dept. 2013)
• Lamb v. 118 2nd Ave NY LLC, et. al., 2017 WL 2936787 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty.)
• Napolitano v. 118 2nd Ave NY LLC, et. al., 2017 WL 2936786 (Sup. Ct. N.Y. Cty)

Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law

J.D. - 2010

Honors & Activities:

• • Intensive Trial Advocacy Program
  • Cardozo Jurist Newspaper, Columnist
  • Tax Clinic

Michigan State University

B.S. Construction Management – 2007

Honors & Activities:

• • Dean’s List

• Selected to Super Lawyers’ Rising Stars List, 2021

• Cooperative and Condominium Board Representation
• Real Estate Litigation
• Commercial Litigation
• Landlord and Tenant Law
• Cooperative and Condominium Disputes