Paul D. Selver is Co-Chair of the Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Land Use department. Mr. Selver has been engaged in the private practice of law in New York City since 1972. His practice encompasses all aspects of land use and development law, with a special emphasis on environmental, zoning and historic preservation. He has extensive experience counseling clients in the public and environmental review of complex and large scale projects. Over the past 20 years, he has successfully coordinated the public approval and environmental review process for more than four million square feet of office space, more than 10,000 apartments, hundreds of thousands of square feet of retail and entertainment space, hundreds of hotel rooms, and new institutional buildings. He has overseen scores of transactions involving the purchase and sale of unused development rights for use in new buildings around Manhattan and Brooklyn; he has supervised land use and environmental due diligence in connection with numerous purchases and financings of real estate; he has served as special counsel in litigation defending challenges to land use-related permits and approvals; and he has advised such public agencies such as New Jersey Transit, the Battery Park City Authority, and the Empire State Development Corporation.
Mr. Selver is the co-author of the New York Practice Guide: Real Property, Volume II: Land Use Regulation (Matthew Bender & Co., 1986). He has also contributed articles to The New York Times, the National Law Journal, the New York Law Journal, Manhattan Lawyer and Car and Driver magazine. He is listed in Who's Who in America, in Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers and in Best Lawyers in America, and he has been named one of New York City's 100 top lawyers in the annual Superlawyers survey. He has been a Lecturer in Law at Columbia University Law School and was formerly an Adjunct Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University. His current affiliations include the Real Estate Board of New York, where he is the Chairman of the Zoning Committee and a member of the Land Use and Environmental Committee; membership on the Mountain Lakes, New Jersey Planning Board; and service as a Director of Citizens Housing and Planning Council and as a member of the Advisory Board of Cityland.
Mr. Selver received a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Harvard College in 1969 and a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1972.