Logan Lowe is an attorney at Woods Lonergan PLLC and an MAI designated appraiser. He litigates real estate development and construction disputes, and the asset litigation that runs alongside them, for the developers, sponsors, investors, and lenders behind New York metro projects.
Over the past 20 years Logan has been involved in some of the largest air rights transfers across the five boroughs. Parcels he appraised, and others he handled as counsel, now carry high-rise towers, commercial hubs, and public plazas.
Logan brings valuation and legal structuring together at the start of a matter rather than after positions have hardened. At the outset of a development dispute he takes a collaborative approach, working with the accountants, attorneys, and appraisers already on the matter. Office-to-residential and adaptive-reuse conversions are a current focus. He litigates the control and funding disputes that follow a capital shortfall mid-project, and the renegotiations, workouts, and distressed sales they produce.
His development and construction work runs to joint-venture and sponsor disputes, capital calls and dilution, control and major-decision rights, and the deadlock that stalls a project mid-build. Those disputes run from $1 million to $100 million and above. Logan handles construction defect and delay claims, including critical-path delay and disruption. He also litigates mechanic’s liens and their discharge, ground-lease and construction-loan fights, and surety and bond claims. Logan brings and defends claims against the contractors, subcontractors, and design professionals on those projects.
Air rights and development rights remain his longest-running concentration. The work takes in transfers of development rights, zoning lot mergers and zoning lot development agreements, light and air easements, and the valuation of unused floor area.
On the asset side he litigates ownership and control of property and of the entities holding it. The same work covers commercial lease enforcement, partition, and title and quiet-title disputes. Logan also handles purchase-and-sale defaults and distressed real estate, foreclosures, and workouts. He works within the firm’s real estate litigation group.
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Because he is also an appraiser, he builds the highest-and-best-use and income analysis that decides what a contested asset is worth, and he reads an opposing appraisal for what it leaves out. The MAI designation requires documented specialized appraisal experience and advanced examination in income capitalization, in market analysis and highest and best use, and in quantitative analysis. He is one of roughly 6,300 practicing appraisers worldwide who hold one of the Appraisal Institute’s commercial designations. Courts, government agencies, financial institutions, and investors recognize the designation.
Logan negotiates, litigates, and prepares these matters for trial. He works the pleadings, the discovery, and the motion practice, and carries the valuation analysis through the case. Logan also documents the transactions that sit underneath them. He works these matters with James F. Woods and Annie E. Causey.
Logan counsels technology, SaaS, and AI companies and middle-market and emerging businesses on corporate structure, investor arrangements, and governance. He represents them in the disputes that follow, frequently against substantially larger counterparties: founder and investor disputes, fiduciary claims among directors and shareholders, commercial and vendor agreements, licensing and distribution, trade secret and intellectual property claims, and equity and compensation disputes with departing executives and employees.
Logan has been quoted in The New York Times. As an associate editor and monthly columnist, Logan wrote for eSecurities, an e-commerce magazine distributed by the American Bar Association and Leader Publications. His work has been nationally published in CNET.com and Computer Shopper magazine. He presented “An Overview of Moral Rights in the United States” at the Third Annual Art and Law Seminar at the Maison du Barreau in Paris, sponsored by the Bar Associations of Paris, Barcelona, and Málaga.
The New York Real Estate Journal named Logan to its 2026 Ones to Watch: Innovators in Commercial Real Estate. Woods Lonergan is ranked in Chambers USA: Spotlight New York for Litigation: General Commercial and Real Estate, 2026 and 2027.
Areas of Focus
Real Estate & Construction. Development and joint-venture disputes, construction defect and delay, mechanic’s liens, ground-lease and construction-loan fights, surety and bond claims, and air rights and development rights, for developers, sponsors, and lenders.
Real Estate & Asset Litigation. Ownership and control of property and of the entities that hold it, commercial lease enforcement, partition, asset-value and equity disputes, and distressed real estate and workouts.