Oscar Luis Suarez

Practice Details

• Languages
  Spanish
• Firm Information
  Position

  Partner

  Firm Name

  Halloran & Sage LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Representative Matters: Firm Obtains Positive Result for Municipality in Sophisticated Fraud Case
  Kenneth R. Slater Jr.
  Am
  a Brosy recently obtained a positive result for their client, the Town of Burlington, by securing a favorable decision regarding the liability GWT Associates, LLC
  one of its individual members after a lengthy trial. GWT Associates, LLC was a developer that was in the process of completing a multi-phase subdivision located in Burlington. The Town required the company to post $165, 00 in bond funds for the Town's benefit to construct public improvements in the event that GWT failed to complete them. When the improvements were never completed
  the Town went to the bank to collect the funds, it discovered that the bond funds had been depleted. Slater
  Brosy later uncovered a sophisticated scheme developed by the individual members of the company to create a passbook using company funds for the purpose of leading the Town to believe that the bond funds were on deposit. In reality, the passbook had been pledged as collateral for a bank loan
  the loan proceeds were then spent down by the developer.
  After a multi-day trial, the court ruled that the Town was successful in proving fraud, negligent misrepresentation, violation of the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA), civil conspiracy, conversion, statutory theft,
  breach of the covenant of good faith
  fair dealing against the individual defendant
  the company
  also found the company in breach of contract.
  Favorable Results Obtained in Zoning Matters
  Jim Perito
  Am
  a Brosy recently obtained positive results for their client, Spinnaker Residential LLC, securing three successful zoning decisions.
  The owner of a competing property brought administrative appeals against our client, who plans to construct an upscale mixed-use development in downtown New Haven near Wooster Square, in regards to a zone change, zone map amendment,
  two site plan approvals. The New Haven City Plan Commission
  Board of Alders had previously approved the changes,
  the competing property owner asserted that the decision was not in accordance with the City's Comprehensive Plan of Development
  that the amendments constituted spot zoning.
  Earlier this month, the court upheld the Commission
  Boards' decisions
  dismissed the appeals.