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John B. Bitar has substantial experience in the area of public finance representing issuers, underwriters, and borrowers in taxable and tax-exempt bond financings. He represents banks issuing letters of credit in support of such bonds. Additionally, he has represented banks and business entities in public and private offerings, securities compliance and regulatory matters, and mergers and acquisitions. https://www.windelsmarx.com/people/john-bitar
Julia L. Bonsal is Of Counsel to the Firm’s Corporate Practice Group. In more than thirty years of practice, she has worked on a wide variety of business and financial transactions including mergers and acquisitions, secured and unsecured loan transactions, debt restructurings, leveraged lease financings and other equipment financings, representing public and private companies, banks, institutional investors and others. Ms. Bonsal has extensive experience representing life science and p...
Douglas R. Brown devotes his practice to business finance, mergers and acquisitions, and securities matters. Doug has substantial experience in representing private equity investors in acquisition and divestiture of businesses and the corporate law, finance, securities, and business problems spawned by those matters. These have involved transactions with European and Asian operations, and the acquisition of troubled companies in bankruptcy and receivership cases. He has also represented commu...
Joseph L. Buckley is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee and Chair of the Litigation Department. He has over 35 years of first chair trial experience in a wide variety of complex cases in federal and state courts in New Jersey and New York. He is certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Civil Trial Attorney.
Anthony R. Coscia's practice focuses on corporate, commercial, and real estate matters, with a concentration on the financial elements of these transactions. He represents financial institutions, investors and major corporations on whose behalf he has handled a broad variety of matters, including: corporate and real estate finance transactions, asset restructure and recovery, regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and general litigation. In addition, Mr. Coscia regularly advises inf...
Steven Fleissig is a real estate shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s New Jersey office. Steven focuses his practice on a variety of real estate and finance related issues. He advises real estate owners on purchase, sale, leasing and financing matters. Steven is also experienced in representing lending institutions in real estate and asset-based financing transactions, restructurings and workouts. Steven has lectured on multiple borrower lending transactions, mortgage foreclosure strategi...
Steven E. Gross serves as Chairman of Sills Cummis & Gross. He also has served as Chair of the Firm’s Securities and Capital Markets and Banking and Finance Practice Groups. His sophisticated approach to any legal matter has drawn clients to him on a national and international level. Mr. Gross counsels public companies and senior executives in mergers and acquisitions and securities offerings involving multi-million dollar transactions. In addition, he advises boards of directors an...
Peter R. Herman is a shareholder at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. and co-chair of the Banking & Financial Services and the Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights groups. His broad banking and corporate law practice includes representations of lending institutions and business entities in a variety of commercial finance transactions. Mr. Herman also advises companies in the real estate, healthcare, manufacturing, and service industries with regard to both national and international transa...
Joel has been a partner with the firm for more than 45 years. He served on the firm's management and compensation committees from 1986 through 2017 and chaired the real estate practice group. Joel's practice focuses primarily on real estate and banking matters. His clients include a wide range of real estate investors and developers, numerous banks and other financial institutions, hotel owners and developers, a large fast-food franchise, and many non-real estate businesses with real estate n...
Mr. Larner’s practice has focused in the areas of business and corporate law, financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions. He regularly serves in the role of outside general counsel and trusted advisor to privately held companies and their owners, as well as family offices. For many years, he has represented private equity firms in connection with the acquisition, business operations and governance of portfolio companies. His transactional and advisory roles have encompassed a b...
Brian Richard Lenker represents lending institutions and businesses across a broad range of corporate and commercial finance transactions. A member of the Firm’s Executive Committee, Brian is a highly experienced business lawyer with a deep knowledge of banking, corporate, and tax laws. Brian focuses his practice on commercial lending, acquisitions, sales, reorganizations of businesses, and real estate law. Representing banks, commercial real estate clients, and business entities rangin...
Michael J. Lubben is a Director of Gibbons P.C., practicing in the Corporate Department and a member of the firm's Distressed Situations Group. Mr. Lubben has had extensive experience with financial, corporate and business matters for a variety of private and public companies including healthcare companies, banks, governmental authorities and charter schools. Mr. Lubben’s practice focuses on transactional work, with an emphasis on real estate financing transactions, issues relating to t...
Vincent P. Maltese is Of Counsel in the Real Estate group at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. Focusing his practice in all areas of commercial real estate transactions, Mr. Maltese primarily counsels commercial and residential lenders and real estate developers in the many different facets of real estate acquisition, sale, financing, leasing, development and conversions. Adding to the depth of his practice, he served as contributing author of Commercial Real Estate Transactions in New Jer...
For more than 35 years, Kevin has concentrated his practice in banking and commercial law and has represented major banks and financial institutions primarily in New Jersey and New York, but also in many other jurisdictions including Pennsylvania, The District of Columbia and Connecticut. He has particular emphasis on the representation of lenders in complex loan transactions and has significant experience in all aspects of lending -- from the issuance of commitment letters to the exercise of...
Jay Samuels focuses on financing transactions, loan workouts, and bankruptcy. In addition to financial transactions, Mr. Samuels represents clients in real estate and leasing transactions, including representation of a national financial institution in its operational leasing and real estate matters, and in business sale, purchase and general contract transactions. Recent matters handled by Mr. Samuels have included: representing the tenant/assignor in the assignment of a lease for multiple f...
Robert A. Schwartz concentrates on mergers and acquisitions, and bank regulatory and securities law.Mr. Schwartz represents both underwriters and issuers in a variety of capital-raising transactions, including: public offerings, private placements, and mutual-to-stock conversions of thrift institutions. In addition, he represents both acquirers and sellers in merger and acquisition transactions, as well as a range of financial institutions in connection with regulatory matters, including hold...
Gary E. Walsh has extensive experience representing states and municipalities, state and local agencies, banks and investment banks in connection with the issuance of tax-exempt and taxable bonds for numerous purposes. These financings have included projects for toll roads, bridges and tunnels, mass transit, health care facilities, educational facilities, low and moderate income housing facilities, economic development and redevelopment facilities, and general public improvement facilities. M...
Mr. Gulati represents financial institutions, real estate developer-owners, and nonprofits with public-private partnerships, particularly with redevelopment and affordable housing financing transactions. He also represents governmental agencies with inter-agency and real estate ventures. He also serves as the General Counsel at Invest Newark. Before joining Windels Marx in 2019, Mr. Gulati was a Deputy Attorney General in the New Jersey Division of Law, where he focused on real estate and pub...
Allen represents major banks and other institutional lenders in a wide variety of real estate and corporate finance transactions, including syndicated and single lender financings, senior and mezzanine debt financings, and acquisition and construction financings. Allen manages all aspects of real estate and corporate closings, including drafting and negotiating term sheets, loan agreements, security instruments, pledge and equity agreements, and participation agreements, as well as review of ...
Anthony M. Osbourne is a shareholder in the Banking and Financial Services group at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A., focusing on corporate finance, banking, and financial services, as well as corporate asset acquisitions and financing related thereto. Mr. Osbourne represents lenders and borrowers in complex commercial financing transactions, including revolving and non-revolving lines of credit, cash-flow and other formula-based financings, and syndications. He also handles asset-based l...
Yessica J. Pinales is an associate in the Banking and Financial Services group at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. Ms. Pinales represents lenders and borrowers in connection with commercial financing transactions, including commercial real estate acquisition and refinancing and non-real estate financing. Ms. Pinales earned her law degree at St. John's University School of Law, where she contributed to the N.Y. Real Property Law Journal, published by the New York State Bar Association. Fro...
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