Biography
Gregory Wong focuses his practice on real estate litigation and commercial disputes. He regularly represents clients in complex cases in state and federal courts.
Gregory also advises real estate companies, investment firms, and commercial tenants in connection with using, leasing, and operating commercial real estate. He has extensive experience drafting and negotiating commercial leases as well as construction access agreements.
During law school, Gregory served as an articles editor for the Cardozo Law Review.
Experience
- Represented a commercial landlord against a tenant that operates indoor fitness locations across the United States. Successfully obtained an order requiring the tenant to pay monthly use and occupancy totaling approximately $450,000 while the action was pending and a money judgment in the amount of $925,000 plus attorneys’ fees in the client’s favor.
- Represent luxury retail companies in drafting and negotiating commercial leases and other real estate matters.
- Successfully represented a major real estate investment trust against a large co-working company that had attempted to unilaterally terminate a long-term commercial lease. After trial, the court issued a judgment declaring that the attempted termination was ineffective and did not terminate the lease.
- Represented a prominent real estate company in numerous litigation and leasing matters.
- Represented a Fortune 500 technology company in connection with closing its retail locations worldwide.
News & Views
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Article
CPLR 3213: The Procedural Mechanism for an Expedited Money Judgment
New York Law Journal -
Article
Navigating RPAPL 881 Litigation and Construction Access in a Post-COVID World
New York Law Journal -
Press Release
Blank Rome Adds Leading Group of Litigators in New York
Lisa M. Coyle, Massimo F. D'Angelo, Reena Jain, Craig Weiner, Robert Chester, Eamon O'Kelly
Recognitions
2024, New York Metro “Rising Star” in Real Estate Law, listed in Super Lawyers
Credentials
Admissions
- New Jersey
- U.S. District Court - New Jersey
- New York
- U.S. District Court - Eastern District of New York
- U.S. District Court - Southern District of New York
Education
- Brooklyn College, BA
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif