Real Estate
Riker Danzig’s diverse real estate practice has successfully represented major parties in several of the most significant New Jersey real estate projects. Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers Clients’ Guide ranked the firm as one of the leading New Jersey real estate practices, noting the group's "powerhouse reputation in the state," “strength on the transactional side” and “profile in the context of real estate litigation.” Chambers also remarks on our group's "commercial sense," "bench strength" and "depth of understanding" for real estate concerns. We perform real estate-related legal services for a wide variety of clients, including well-known companies as well as mid-sized developers. Our real estate work also includes representing many banks and lending institutions in the full range of real estate finance transactions. In addition, we perform real estate related legal services for a large number of other owners, prospective owners and tenants of commercial properties located in New Jersey, including services related to the development, sale or lease of such properties.
Typical Engagements
We have a broad-based real estate practice including all aspects of real estate law. Our practice includes:
- Negotiating contracts of sale and options on behalf of sellers and purchasers of improved and unimproved real property
- Representing borrowers and lenders in connection with loans secured by real property
- Representing retail landlords and tenants
- Representing commercial and industrial landlords and tenants
- Representing parties engaging in 1031 tax free exchanges, including deferred exchanges, starker reverse exchanges and exchanges involving build-to-suit transactions
- Representing clients in the structuring of corporations, joint ventures, partnerships and limited liability entities
- Representing parties dealing with property covered by New Jersey's Industrial Site Recovery Act and with regard to other environmental problems
- Representing sellers and purchasers of development tracts, including transactions contingent on complex approvals and transactions with contingent purchase prices and kickers payable to sellers on the disposition of completed units by purchasers
- Representing purchaser-lessors as well as seller-lessees in sale-leaseback transactions
- Representing developers, owners, landlords and tenants in real estate litigation and arbitration matters
- Representing title insurance companies in claims litigation
- Representing parties in connection with Mount Laurel housing issues
- Representing owners in connection with the sale of properties by auction and pooled sale
- Representing governmental authorities and property owners in condemnation proceedings
- Representing owners and developers before state and local agencies in obtaining zoning, planning and other developmental approvals and permits and in prerogative-writ litigation relating to approvals
In many matters requiring diverse expertise, our real estate attorneys work together with other attorneys in our firm who practice in our highly regarded environmental, government affairs, bankruptcy, corporate, lending and litigation practice groups.
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Firm Clients
- AXA Corporate Solutions
- Highlands Insurance Group, Inc.
- Kemper Group of Insurance Companies
- Diamond Chemical Co., Inc.
- Capacity, L.L.C.
- Bouras Industry, Inc.
- Mutual Marine Office, Inc.
- Dittman Incentive Marketing Corp.
- Geptek, Inc.
- Genpro, Inc.
- Ecko Complex, L.L.C.
- Jacobs Engineering
- Modell’s Sporting Goods
- New York Life Agents Reinsurance Company
- Porky Products
- Glamorise Foundations, Inc.
- Proformance Insurance Company
- Solix, Inc.
- Zootoo, LLC
- HSBC Bank
- Banc One
- Prudential Insurance Company
- Lexent Inc.
- Playtex Products Corporation
- North Fork Bank
- Hertz Corporation
- Meow Mix Corporation
- Aeon (U.S.A.), Inc.
- BEA Systems, Inc.
- Bouras Industries, Inc.
- Cameco, Inc.
- C&S Wholesale Grocers, Inc.
- Corporate Fuel Partners
- Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc.
- Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma America, Inc.
- GDC Properties
- Gerber Products Company, Inc.
- Foundation Venture Capital Group LLC
- Ginsburg Development Companies LLC
- Lloyd, Gerstner & Partners, LLC
- McDonald Information Services, Inc.
- Morris Energy Group, LLC
- New York Life Agents Reinsurance Company
- Promident LLC d/b/a Johnson-Promident
- Shipley & Halmos, LLC
- Solix, Inc.
- Wakefern Food Corporation
- WR Capital Partners LLC
- Zenith Optimedia, Inc.
- Dames and Moore
- E.I. Associates
- Herval Construction, Inc
- Parsons Engineering Science, Inc.
- R2D Corporation
- Perini Construction Corporation
- West Morris Regional High School Board of Education
- Casino Reinvestment Development Authority
- Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation
- Bank of America
- Citibank, N.A.
- HSBC Bank
- Provident Bank, etc. v. Edward V. Giannasca (N.Y. App. Div.)
- The Bank of New York
- Alea North America
- AXA Versicherungs AG
- CIGNA
- Alea London Limited
- British International Insurance Company
- Brittany Insurance Company (London)
- Chubb Group of Insurance Companies
- American International Management Association
- Compagnie Europeenne D’Assurances Industrielles S.A.
- Crown Life Insurance Company
- Crum & Foster Insurance Group
- Colonia Insurance Company
- Delta Lloyd Insurance Company Limited
- Dukes Place Holdings, L.P.
- EMC Insurance Companies
- Enstar Group Limited
- Enstar US Inc.
- Excess Insurance Company Limited
- Harleysville Insurance Companies
- Harper Insurance Limited f/k/a Turegum Insurance Company
- Enstar (EU) Limited
- National Casualty Company of America Limited
- Mutual Marine Office, Inc.
- Hudson Reinsurance Company Limited
- Highlands Insurance Group, Inc.
- Management Facilities Corporation
- National Casualty Company of America Limited
- Navigators Insurance Company
- New York Marine & General Insurance Company
- Unique Settings of New York
- Siemens Corporation
- McKessen Corp.
- York Claims Service, Inc.
- Gavan-Graham Electrical Products Corp.
- Triad Consulting Engineers, Inc.
- Jacobs Engineering
- Bayonne Parking Authority