Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  LYNCH, DESIMONE & NYLEN, LLP, is one of Boston’s premier law firms specializing in the areas of business litigation, real estate valuation and land use. Our expertise includes eminent domain litigation, tax abatements, federal and state environmental and regulatory law, and permitting and zoning. Our principals have extensive experience in business litigation, real estate law and land use disputes. In addition, we have extensive experience in electric utility valuation matters, including those involving both fossil fuel and nuclear generation facilities.
• Eminent Domain
  Founding Partner Ernest P. DeSimone has been a trial lawyer since 1975 and concentrates his practice in eminent domain litigation on behalf of landowners throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. After graduating from Suffolk University Law School with honors, Mr. DeSimone became an Assistant Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
• Land Use and Zoning

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  A graduate of Boston Latin School, Boston College and Suffolk University Law School, Mr. Lynch has been admitted to practice before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the United States District Court in Massachusetts. He has tried cases in all divisions of the trial court and has appeared and argued many times in the Appellate Courts of the Commonwealth. He served as an Assistant District Attorney in Boston, trying major felony matters and later as an Assistant Corporation Counsel in the City of Boston, involved in real estate tax matters and litigation representing the Assessing Department and the Redevelopment Authority. He is a member of the Boston and Massachusetts Bar Associations and was the Faculty Chairman of the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc., where he authored various articles concerning real estate valuation and served as a frequent lecturer on real estate litigation matters. He is also a longtime member of the Institute of Property Taxation (IPT), a national organization of property tax executive and has lectured and presented at its annual seminars. He is a member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), Massachusetts. He serves on the Executive Committee and is a Vice-Chairman of the Associated Industries of Massachusetts (AIM), a business advocacy and public policy organization comprised of over 7,500 industrial and service companies and medical and educational institutions throughout Massachusetts. Mr. Lynch enjoys an A/V or pre-eminent professional rating from his peers, as listed in Martindale-Hubbell, a national legal reference service.

Finance Law

• Tax Law
  His extensive experience with real estate law includes real estate tax litigation as well as related issues involving property classification, property tax exemption, payment in lieu of tax agreements, Chapter 121A Urban Redevelopment Agreements, various other tax incentive and finance agreements, portfolio and bulk sales valuation, as well as the standard appraisal valuation methods pertaining to commercial, industrial and multi-family residential properties. He also has experience with environmental impairment, land use, zoning and municipal law, and related litigation before administrative agencies, trial and appellate courts.