Sterns & Weinroth's Real Estate/Transactional Practice Group includes a diverse group of attorneys who provide the firm's clients with a full range of real estate and corporate transactional services in New Jersey. The firm is proud to be a Master Sponsor of the New Jersey Builders Association and to include among its clients one of the largest, publicly traded residential builders in the United States and a regional office REIT. The group's experience includes construction law, corporate law, environmental law, intellectual property law and land use law.

In an increasingly complex environment, Sterns & Weinroth's real estate and transactional attorneys provide the firm's clients with comprehensive representation in all types of real estate transactions, from the most sophisticated transactions involving joint efforts among public and private entities to finance and build mixed-use developments to the acquisition of recreational facilities, such as golf courses. The firm represents local, regional and national development companies in the construction of new residential units and commercial and industrial facilities as well as corporate clients and out-of-state law firms seeking advice in connection with transactions in New Jersey. Our representation typically commences with pre-acquisition planning and negotiating agreements for the acquisition of property and continues through ultimate sale, lease-up or ongoing management of a project.

The firm's attorneys have extensive experience before planning boards, boards of adjustment, governing bodies and local, regional and state utility agencies and authorities. Our experience enables us to develop strategic plans designed to achieve our client's development goals. Our attorneys use their experience to help clients take advantage of the opportunities and minimize the constraints of New Jersey's complex regulatory process.

Sterns & Weinroth's attorneys regularly represent clients in obtaining both traditional and creative financing, including the preparation and negotiation of construction and permanent loan agreements, mortgage instruments, letter of credit agreements, Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA) and Department of Community Affairs (DCA) tax credit programs, tax-exempt and subsidized financings, tax abatements and real estate syndications, and in the negotiation and formation of joint ventures, general and limited partnership agreements, and limited liability companies. The firm represents clients in all aspects of development of blighted areas and areas in need of redevelopment, including property acquisition and condemnation, the negotiation of redevelopment agreements, counseling on environmental compliance issues, and obtaining government approvals, tax abatement and Brownfields reimbursement. The firm also represents lenders in all varieties of construction and permanent mortgage transactions and has substantial experience in negotiating real-estate workouts, sale-leaseback arrangements, credit agreements and other contractual arrangements between lenders, owners/developers and other members of the development team.

Sterns & Weinroth's Real Estate/Transactional Practice Group has extensive experience representing landlords and primary corporate tenants in drafting and negotiating commercial leases and developers in the formation of office and other commercial condominiums. The firm's attorneys are regularly involved in drafting Public Offering Statements for the sale of residential condominium and homeowners' associations and processing Applications for Registration with the DCA, and they have been involved in numerous condominium and cooperative conversions.

The attorneys practicing in this area in our Real Estate/Transactional group include: Frank J. Petrino, Chair, Jennifer L. Cordes,  Bernadette Fallows Davidson,  Edgar Alden Dunham, IV,  Todd D. Greene,  Roxanne E. Jayne,  Michelle Lebovitz Lamar,  Brian J. Mulligan,  Vincent J. Paluzzi,  David M. Roskos,  Joel H. Sterns  and Robert P. Zoller.