Anne Mette Elkjaer Andersen

November 23, 2022 | New York Law Journal

New legislation provides significantly expanded opportunities for employee owned architecture, professional engineering, land surveying, landscape architecture, and geology corporations to operate in New York. With the new ESOP ownership opportunities, the door is wide open for employee owned professional design corporations wishing to operate in New York, provided they do it through a New York professional design service corporation, and further provided they have New York licensed management.

By Anne-Mette Elkjaer Andersen

8 minute read

December 06, 2018 | New York Law Journal

With the new rules, subject to a few transition exceptions, the practice of geology will be restricted in a manner similar to engineering, land surveying, architecture, and landscape architecture in New York.

By Anne-Mette Elkjaer Andersen

7 minute read

April 02, 2012 | New York Law Journal

Anne-Mette Elkjaer Andersen, a partner with Holland & Knight, and David O'Leary, a senior counsel at the firm, write that New York State has strict restrictions on the types of corporate and other legal entities that are allowed to practice professional engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, and land surveying (the so-called "design professions") in New York.

By Anne-Mette Elkjaer Andersen and David O'Leary

14 minute read