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Robert E. Schwartz

Shareholder
rschwartz@shermansilverstein.com
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Phone: (856) 661-2077

New Jersey & Pennsylvania

Meet Robert

Robert Schwartz is a shareholder and a member of the firm's real estate department. He is recognized as a consummate professional, with notable expertise in real estate, business, corporate, and lending 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, providing general business counseling to a range of clients and industries. He counsels business and private equity clients 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 and low income housing tax credit related financing. 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.
Education

J.D., Villanova University School of Law, 1987
Cum Laude
Villanova Law Review 1985-1987
Villanova Law Review Case and Comment Editor, 1986-1987

BS-Accounting, Ithaca College, 1984

Professional & Bar Association Memberships

New Jersey State Bar Association

Pennsylvania State Bar Association

Camden County Bar Association

Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey
Member Since: since 1990
President 2010-2012
Board of Trustees 1999-Present
Executive Committee 2004-Present
Vice President 2005-2009
Annual Campaign Co-Chair 2009

Jewish Family and Children's Service
Member Since: 1994-2002
President, 1999-2000
Vice President, Executive Committee 1996-1998

Raymond and Gertrude R. Saltzman Foundation

Board of Trustees 2013-2021

Vice President 2021-Present

Daniel B. Allanoff Foundation
Board of Trustees 2013-Present