Christine F Li

Career

Chris concentrates her practice on condominiums, planned real estate developments, and community associations, with significant experience advising residential and commercial developers on compliance with New Jersey’s Planned Real Estate Development Full Disclosure Act (PREDFDA)and related regulatory requirements.

She handles all aspects of project registration before the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, including preparation of public offering statements, master deeds, declarations, and governing documents. Chris also advises on public disclosure compliance, builder registration, conversion and eviction laws, community association regulations, new home warranty matters, consumer protection issues, and housing and building code compliance.

Chris represents clients in connection with residential, commercial, industrial, and mixed-use developments, including condominium conversions, phased developments, affordability-restricted housing, and projects involving Federal National Mortgage Association and Federal Housing Administration requirements. She also advises successor developers, sponsors, lenders, owners, and associations on operational and regulatory issues affecting existing and distressed communities.

In addition, Chris handles acquisitions, sales, financing, and leasing of commercial and residential real estate, and provides litigation support relating to construction defects, sponsor transition matters, collections, and alternative dispute resolution involving community associations.

Professional Memberships

American College of Real Estate Lawyers Fellow

College of Community Association Lawyers Fellow

New Jersey State Bar Association: Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section, Board of Consultors (Chair, 2010 – 2011); Amicus Committee (former member)

Community Associations Institute - New Jersey Chapter (CAI-NJ): National Legislative Action Committee - NJ (past Chair); Board of Directors (former member and past Vice President); Uniform Common Interest Ownership Act Task Force (former member); Education Committee (former member); Editorial Committee (former member)

Asian Pacific American Lawyers Association of New Jersey

Work Highlights

Represented a major real estate investment firm in structuring a $322 million mixed-use data center, residential, and commercial development project, drafting reciprocal easement and condominium governance documents to support multi-owner conveyances and future buildout.

Represented a leading U.S. homebuilder and its development partners on complex multi-builder and mixed-use communities, including Sea Bright, Freehold, Chatham, and Berkeley Heights, preparing governing documents, negotiating cross-declarations and easements, securing Department of Community Affairs registrations, and advising on association transitions.

Representing a major developer in the redevelopment of a former U.S. Army installation at Fort Monmouth, structuring a phased mixed-use condominium project to maximize flexibility for future purchasers and commercial users.

Represented a national real estate developer in registering luxury condominium towers at the Four Seasons Deer Valley East Village in Utah with New Jersey regulators, enabling interstate marketing and sales to New Jersey residents.

Representing the owner and condominium association of a distressed residential development in governance transition, regulatory compliance, and reactivation of stalled unit sales under the Planned Real Estate Development Full Disclosure Act.

Acted as local counsel in connection with the $121.5 million construction financing of a major mixed-use condominium project in Jersey City, including amendments to regulatory registrations.

Represented a residential developer in restructuring an age-restricted and affordable housing condominium in Mountainside, enabling conversion from failed sales to a mixed ownership and rental model through litigation, regulatory approvals, and complex re-documentation.

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