Solving Problems in Commercial Real Estate Transactions

Presenters

Katharine Coffey, Esq.

Day Pitney LLP, Parsippany

Law Offices of Richard Schkolnick in Millburn, New Jersey, has extensive experience providing solutions to property owners in complex land use and zoning matters, and has served as counsel to local government agencies with respect to land use and zoning issues. He focuses his practice in applications to construct wireless communications facilities and has represented national wireless carriers in hundreds of zoning applications.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey and New York, Mr. Schkolnick is Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Land Use Law Section. He secured a unanimous decision from the New Jersey Supreme Court on behalf of the Township of West Orange in the State’s seminal eminent domain case, Township of West Orange v. 769 Associates, LLC, 172 N.J. 564 (2002), and also served as Co-General counsel to the New Jersey State Democratic Party.

Mr. Schkolnick is a graduate of Haverford College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and received his Masters of Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania’s Fels Center of Government, where he was a Fels Scholar. He received his J.D. from the U.C.L.A. School of Law.
(9/23)

Michael J. Edwards, Esq.

Surenian, Edwards, Buzak & Nolan LLC, Point Pleasant Beach

David Freylikhman, Esq.

Greenberg Traurig LLP

Joshua M. Gorsky, Esq.

Mandelbaum Barrett, PC, Roseland

John Lee, Esq.

IPX1031

Josh M. Mann, Esq.

Iron Ore Properties LLC, Millburn

is co-founder and Co-Managing Partner of Iron Ore Properties LLC in Millburn, New Jersey, where he is responsible for strategic planning, acquisitions, operations, legal and governmental relationships, and the execution of the Company’s Stabilized, Value-Add and Distressed Projects. Prior to forming Iron Ore he was a Partner and General Counsel at Seaview Capital Partners Limited Liability Company, where he managed the Company’s acquisitions, development projects, acted as counsel on all transactions and management decisions, and helped oversee and create unique deal structures which returned well above-market investment returns.

Mr. Mann is Past President of the New Jersey Builders Association’s Executive Committee and is Chair of the Association’s Political Action Committee. He has also served as Treasurer and Vice President of the Metropolitan Builders and Contractors Association. Mr. Mann has helped draft legislation and testified before both State Assembly and Senate Legislative Committees on matters concerning both redevelopment and distressed assets. He has also been a member of the Emerging Leader’s Council of the Rutgers School of Real Estate, where he is an Adjunct Professor and has taught a class on Real Estate Law to MBA students.

Mr. Mann is a graduate of Syracuse University and Rutgers Law School-Newark, where he served as a Governor’s Executive Fellow through the Eagleton Institute of Politics.
(9/23)

Victoria Reed

Verdantas, Somerville

is Senior Project Manager at Verdantas in Somerville, New Jersey. With more than 19 years in the environmental consulting industry, she supports clients during real estate transactions and provides practical remedial solutions that become integrated into site development. She primarily supports commercial and industrial clients with transactional due diligence services, including the evaluation of industrial facilities, multifamily residential developments, water utilities and commercial spaces. The assessments include Preliminary Assessments, Phase I and Phase II Environmental Site Assessments, and underground storage tank investigations and closure.

Ms. Reed received her B.S. from William Paterson University.
(9/23)

Alexa Richman-LaLonde, Esq

Riker Danzig LLP, Morristown

David C. Scott, Esq.

Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP, Roseland

is an associate with Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP in Roseland, New Jersey, and a member of the firm’s Environmental Department. With an environmental law practice that emphasizes transactions, permitting, and regulatory compliance, he primarily provides counsel on environmental risks associated with real estate and business transactions, methods for mitigating those risks and strategies for addressing environmental issues when they do arise, including the presence of hazardous substances in soil and groundwater, discharges from underground storage tanks and the cleanup and remediation of contaminated sites. He also assists solid waste service vendors in obtaining the required A-901 licenses and Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity required under New Jersey law.

Admitted to practice in New Jersey, New York and the District of Columbia, Mr. Scott is a Director of the New Jersey State Bar Association Environmental Law Section. He serves on the Environmental Committee of the New Jersey Builders Association, on NAIOP New Jersey’s Regulatory Affairs Committee, and on the Commerce & Industry Association of New Jersey’s Manufacturing Forum Steering Committee, Environmental Business Council and Contaminants of Emerging Concern Working Group.

Mr. Scott received his B.S., magna cum laude, from the New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry and his J.D., cum laude, from Vermont Law School.
(9/23)

Calvin Souder

Souder Law Group LLP, Newark

Deborah Stackpole

Stonecrest Partners

Charles J. Wilkes, Esq.

Murphy Schiller & Wilkes LLP, Newark