April E. Knoch

April is an Associate Attorney with Pentiuk, Couvreur & Kobiljak, P.C. She focuses on Cooperative Housing Law and Corporate Law including general landlord and tenant practice, corporate formation and governance, civil practice and procedure, FHA and HUD compliance, and state and local taxation.

She is involved in the many varied aspects of representing housing cooperatives, including attending and chairing Board and Member meetings, researching legal issues, researching and assisting with HUD issues, and has extensive experience with cooperative document review and drafting. April is the Supervising Attorney for all housing cooperative governing document research and drafting including articles of incorporation, bylaws, occupancy agreements, purchase agreements, Board resolutions, policies and procedures, and rules and regulations. April researches and prepares legal opinions, resolutions, and policy drafting for cooperative clients on varying issues of concern for Boards and Management alike. April regularly and aggressively assists in the representation of housing cooperative interests in all court and agency levels.

April has extensive background working with public housing commissions and HUD regulations, and regularly works with housing commission clients to assist with all legal matters including Commission meeting attendance, drafting legal opinions, assisting Commission Boards and Management with development and implementation of policy, and assistance with HUD relations.

With her experience in the cooperative and multi-family housing world, she contributes various articles for publication in the Midwestern Association of Housing Cooperatives MAHC Messenger, as well as Pentiuk, Couvreur & Kobiljak P.C.’s National Cooperative Law Center and the National Association of Housing Cooperatives. April is an instructor at both the Midwestern Association of Housing Cooperatives and National Association of Housing Cooperatives Annual Conferences and a contributing instructor for the MAHC CCS Course.