The $16.3 million jury verdict on Dec. 8 against private equity fund Z Capital Partners and its affiliate Carillon Hotel in a lawsuit where the homeowners association claimed homeowners were overassessed is more than just a win for unit owners and their attorneys.
It’s a case that shows the importance of breaking down complex evidence to the jury, says attorney Stevan Pardo of the firm Pardo Jackson Gainsburg. Pardo, who along with Joe Pardo, and Gene Stearns, Jason Koslowe and Ezra Greenberg of Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff & Sitterson and Paul Shelowitz and Gabe Mandler of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan convinced a jury in a five-day trial that the defendants overassessed unit owners at The Carillon Hotel and Spa millions of dollars in property expense from 2015 to 2022.
