Marissa S. Liff

Marissa is of counsel in the Real Estate practice.

Marissa practices at the intersection of real estate and not-for-profit law with an emphasis on mixed-use and multifamily affordable residential real estate development projects. Her clients include not-for-profit, for-profit, and joint venture developers involved in the acquisition, construction, rehabilitation and preservation of mixed-use projects that are financed with low-income housing, new markets or other tax credits, municipal bonds and/or private, federal, state and local debt financing.

Marissa provides counsel on transactional real estate matters, including purchase and sales, easements, development and access agreements, corporate structuring, commercial financing, construction and design professional contracts, tax credit equity investment, and regulatory regimes.

Prior to joining AGG, Marissa worked at a law firm focused on the creation of affordable and supportive housing and community development in New York City. She also worked as counsel for the New York State Housing Finance Agency, where she represented the state in complex public financing transactions subsidizing affordable housing development. She received her Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Tulane University and a Master of the Arts from the University of Wisconsin – Madison prior to obtaining her juris doctorate from New York University School of Law.