Wayne L. Kaplan
Of Counsel
George Washington University School of Law (J.D. 1981); University of Rhode Island (B.S., 1977)

Ph: (516) 663-6553
Fx: (516) 663-6753
Email: wkaplan@rmfpc.com
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Mr. Kaplan is Of Counsel at Ruskin Moscou Faltischek, where he is chair of the Seniors’ Housing Practice Group and is a member of the Health Law, Corporate Law and Real Estate Departments.

Mr. Kaplan has over 25 years of extensive experience in regulatory health law, transactional health law, real estate, general corporate, financial matters and construction law. He has spent most of that time as General Counsel and Senior Executive Vice President of Kapson Senior Quarters Corp., an assisted living and seniors’ housing provider, which went from being a small privately held business to a public company subsequently bought out by a Wall Street investment bank and then taken private again. Mr. Kaplan headed up all of this company’s legal operations, was one of its three senior executives, and was one of the two people who participated in the company’s roadshow in anticipation of its initial public offering.

Mr. Kaplan was appointed by the Governor of New York to the New York State Life Care (Continuing Care Retirement) Community Council, and sits on the Board of Directors and is Chairman of the Legal Committee of the Empire State Association of Assisted Living. Mr. Kaplan also sits on the Board of Directors of Friends Assisting Nassau Seniors (FANS), and sat on the Board of Directors of the American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA), the Assisted Living Federation of America (ALFA), and was a founding Board Member of the Connecticut Assisted Living Association (CALA) and the New Jersey Assisted Living Association (NJALA). Mr. Kaplan was also appointed to the New York State 1995 Governor’s Conference on Aging by the New York State Office for the Aging to develop New York State’s platform for the 1995 White House Conference on Aging.

Mr. Kaplan has also been appointed as a receiver by the N.Y.S. Supreme Court for an unaffiliated third party’s assisted living facility in a mortgage foreclosure action, and has been a featured speaker at international, national, regional and local senior housing forums, including the United Nations - International Conference on Urban Senior Housing, The New York State Bar Association, the Assisted Living Federation of America, the National Association of Senior Living Industries, the Connecticut Assisted Living Association, the City Club of New York, the International Association of Corporate Real Estate Executives (NACORE), and on the WLIE Talk Radio show - "Seniors on the Move."