| Ms. Apy is a principal of Kane, Ballmer & Berkman, which she joined in 1999. Ms. Apy uses her extensive experience in real estate, planning, land use, environmental, prevailing wage, affordable housing, bond financing and general redevelopment, municipal, and public agency law to advise and assist the firm’s clients.
Ms. Apy’s main focus is advising the firm’s clients in all aspects of redevelopment law, from the redevelopment plan adoption and amendment process, to negotiating and drafting disposition and development and owner participation agreements, to advising on prevailing wage, financing and low- and moderate-income housing issues. She has acted as special legal counsel in many successful redevelopment plan adoptions and redevelopment plan amendments.
As a transactional attorney, Ms. Apy has negotiated and documented numerous complex, multi-million dollar redevelopment and sales transactions relating to both vacant and developed land helping cities statewide to enhance their communities. Ms. Apy also counsels the firm’s clients regarding State prevailing wage laws. In addition, Ms. Apy has recently acted as Deputy City Attorney in Baldwin Park advising the Baldwin Park Planning Commission.
Before joining Kane, Ballmer & Berkman, Ms. Apy worked as an associate in the Public Law Department of Best Best & Krieger LLP where she represented a wide variety of public agency clients in municipal, redevelopment and real estate matters. Prior to Best Best & Krieger LLP, Ms. Apy worked for the City of San Jose Redevelopment Agency, General Counsel’s Office, where she drafted redevelopment agreements and implemented statutory provisions of the California Redevelopment Law.
Ms. Apy is an active member and lecturer for the California Redevelopment Association. The topics on which she has lectured are Redevelopment Law and Redevelopment Plan Adoption and Amendment Procedures. She is a member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association (Local Government and Real Property Sections) and California State Bar Association. |
