Kelly M. Canavan

Kelly Canavan dedicates her practice to real estate, with a focus on both residential and commercial transactions and leases, primarily on Long Island’s East End.  As chair of our Real Estate practice, Kelly represents buyers and sellers, landlords and tenants, brokers and developers, architects, contractors, and business owners.  She has experience in handling both forward and reverse 1031 exchanges, as well as in preparing all types of agreements and contracts relating to real estate transactions such as prenuptial agreements, co-habitation agreements, and joint venture agreements.  Her real estate matters vary in size from smaller matters to transactions worth tens of millions of dollars.  In recent years, her transactions have totaled well over a hundred million dollars per year.

Kelly began her legal career practicing commercial and insurance defense litigation in New York City and Nassau County.  In 1996, she opened her own law firm in Sag Harbor focusing on real estate and litigation matters for her East End clientele.  After a decade, Kelly merged her practice into a large Long Island firm.  Kelly joined the team of Campolo Middleton with the insight and experience to offer innovative solutions to the complex issues that often arise in property transactions on the East End, and with the success of having handled two of the top ten Hamptons sales of 2013.