Robert Schwartz is shareholder, member of the Firm's Executive Committee and a co-managing shareholder.  He is recognized as a consummate professional, with notable proficiency in real estate, business, corporate, and banking law and transactions.

REAL ESTATE PRACTICE

Mr. Schwartz's vibrant commercial real estate practice embraces the spectrum of sophisticated matters, including:

• Structuring and organizing entities.
• Acquisitions.
• Sales.
• Financing.
• Leases.
• Construction contracts.
• Workouts.

His client list includes real estate investors and developers, lending institutions, REITS, and other owners, operators, and managers of apartment buildings, office buildings, and shopping centers.

CORPORATE/BUSINESS PRACTICE

Mr. Schwartz's business practice is equally exceptional. He counsels several private equity groups in their

• Mergers and acquisitions.
• Dispositions.
• Commercial financing.
• Day-to-day matters.

LENDING PRACTICE

Mr. Schwartz's expertise also includes lender's side asset-based and real estate financing, including construction loans. He represents both national and regional lending institutions.

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS

Among Mr. Schwartz's diverse portfolio of real estate and business transactions, he has represented:

• A non-profit organization in acquiring and developing a $100,000,000 continuing care retirement community.
• A private equity group in acquiring 50 small market radio stations in California and Oregon, and the related $50,000,000 financing.
• An employee benefits company in selling its $15,000,000 business to a national insurance company.
• National lenders making construction loans to multiple low and moderate income housing projects.

Mr. Schwartz has been listed among New Jersey's "Super Lawyers" every year since 2005.