NixonPeabody welcomed two attorneys, Meghan Altidor and Aaron Yowell, from its affordable housing practice to the firm’s partnership.
Meghan Altidor represents nonprofit and for-profit developers in acquiring, constructing, rehabilitating, and operating affordable housing developments across the country with a focus on New York and Washington, D.C. As a board member of the New York Housing Conference Young Leadership Council and a member of the New York State Homes & Community Renewal Multifamily Advisory Council legal subcommittee, Meghan keeps a high profile within the industry.
“Between historic commitments by the New York Governor and New York City Mayor to the creation of affordable and supportive housing, it’s an exciting time to be part of the industry. New opportunities create new challenges in combining layers of federal, state, and local financing, and my role is to bring the pieces together and guide clients through these complex transactions.”
Meghan is an active member of the diplomatic community in D.C. through the Embassy of Haiti.
Aaron Yowell represents private, public, and nonprofit developers, investors, and real estate owners, with a focus on affordable and supportive housing developers as well as alternative financing structures for affordable housing, including private equity investments. He provides advice in all aspects of project development, rehabilitation, and operation, including tax exemptions, acquisitions, dispositions, public and private financings, and joint ventures.
“As competition for private and public dollars increases, fast and adaptable execution is increasingly more important. I am finding ways to reduce friction for our clients, creating opportunities to leverage existing assets and unlock new lines of business.”
Aaron is active in legal innovation, including spearheading the Code the Deal transactional law hackathon, and other legal technology initiatives of the firm. A member of the Advisory Board of the Moelis Institute for Affordable Housing at NYU, Aaron was a founding board member of GreenHomeNYC.
