Uniondale, NY Gabriella Botticelli has joined the law firm of Forchelli Deegan Terrana LLP as an associate in the tax certiorari practice group. She concentrates her practice in the specialty area of property tax refund and reduction, commonly known as tax certiorari. Botticelli has experience with properties throughout NYS, specifically the Suffolk, Nassau, and Westchester counties.
Her co-authored article, “Real Estate Tax Exemptions for Solar Energy Systems,” was published in the NYREJ. During 2017, she was a law clerk at the firm, where she gained exposure to transactional and litigation matters by working with various departments. She is a graduate of the George Washington University School of Law.
When Environmental Site Assessments (ESA) were first part of commercial real estate risk management, it was the lenders driving this requirement. When a borrower wanted a loan on a property, banks would utilize a list of “Approved Consultants” to order the report on both refinances and purchases.