Robert E. Schwartz
Sherman, Silverstein, Kohl, Rose & Podolsky, P.A.
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
Robert’s vibrant commercial real estate practice embraces the spectrum of sophisticated matters, including structuring and organizing entities, acquisitions, sales, financing, leases, construction contracts and workouts.
His client list includes real estate investors and developers, lending institutions, and other owners, operators, and managers of apartment buildings, office buildings, and shopping centers.
Corporate and Business Practice
Robert’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 mergers and acquisitions, dispositions, commercial financing and day to day matters.
Lending Practice
Robert’s expertise also includes lender’s side asset-based and real estate financing, including construction and real estate lending, asset based lending, and low-income housing tax credit related financing. He represents both national and regional lending institutions.
Practice Areas
- Commercial Real Estate
- Corporate, Business, and Financial Services
Education & Bar Admission
- 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
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- Pennsylvania State Bar Association
- Camden County Bar Association
Professional Associations
Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey
Solicitor: 2023-Present
Member Since: since 1990
President 2010-2012
Board of Trustees 1999-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
Co-Chair of Investment Committee 2021 – Present
Daniel B. Allanoff Foundation
Board of Trustees 2013-2023
WSFS Advisory Board
2019 – Present
Representative Transactions
- A non-profit organization in acquiring and developing a $100,000,000 continuing care retirement community.
- 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.
- The sale of a national multi-family portfolio.
- The sale of a regional industrial/flex space portfolio.
