Best Lawyers in New Jersey, United States for Corporate Law
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Frank Cannone is the Chair of the Corporate Department and a member of the Executive Committee at Gibbons P.C. Mr. Cannone’s practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and corporate and securities law. He has extensive experience representing clients in connection with public and private capital raising, private equity, mergers and acquisitions (in middle market transactions), public-private-partnerships (P3)/government transactions, alternative energy finance, cor...
David J. Ritter, Jr. focuses his practice in the following areas: estate planning, estate administration, corporate organization, corporate transactions, commercial loans, and healthcare. David is knowledgeable in preparing wills, revocable trusts, living wills, powers of attorney, and healthcare agent designations. He advises clients on the many ways to structure these documents, including creating trusts to hold assets for the benefit of children or loved ones, and establishing an estate pl...
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
Max Crane regularly counsels private and public companies and their executives on various aspects of law and business including corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, securities and crisis management. Working with companies in the banking, energy, gaming, insurance and retail industries, among others, Mr. Crane has been involved in equity and debt financings and energy projects aggregating in excess of $1 billion. These transactions have included initial public offerings, debt restructu...
Bernard J. Berry, Jr. is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Banking and Finance Law, Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law. Bernard J., who practices law in Red Bank, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2008. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Bernard J. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Lori M. Waldron is Co-Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Life Sciences Practice Group. Her practice focuses on the representation of both emerging growth and well-established public and private companies in sophisticated business transactions, with a particular emphasis on the life sciences and biotech industries. Ms. Waldron has extensive experience representing clients through all phases of their business cycles and advising them how to best take advantage of varying business opportuniti...
Lee A. Albanese is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law. Lee A., who practices law in Florham Park, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2012. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Lee A. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Jonathan Gray’s practice focuses on corporate and business law. Resident in the New Brunswick office, he handles an array of corporate transactional matters including: mergers and acquisitions, business formation and financing, venture capital and private equity transactions, joint ventures and strategic alliances, bank credit facilities and loan transactions, public securities filings, corporate governance matters, intellectual property licenses, contracts with employees and consultant...
Peter A. Greenbaum is co-chair of the Corporate team and a shareholder on the Health Law team at Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, P.A. Mr. Greenbaum represents businesses of all sizes and structures, including both private and public companies as well as family owned businesses, in a full range of business matters and transactions. On the healthcare side, Mr. Greenbaum also provides regulatory and corporate advice to hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers, physicians, professional practices, de...
John A. Aiello is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law and Mergers and Acquisitions Law. John A., who practices law in Red Bank, New Jersey, has been recognized since 1987. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which John A. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
Stuart Pachman is the author of Title 14A Corporations, which he updates regularly and is recognized as an authority on corporate law in New Jersey. The book and his law review articles have been cited by New Jersey and federal courts as well as courts in other jurisdictions. Stuart focuses on counseling businesses, non-profit corporations and their officers; drafting complex and unusual agreements that successfully memorialize the business deal reached by the parties; structuring transaction...
Glenn Tucker focuses his practice on corporate, commercial and financing transactions. Before joining CSG Law, Glenn was the Managing Partner and Chair of the Corporate Team at a Newark-based law firm. Currently, Glenn is also a Director of the Business Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association, where he previously served as Chair; a member of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association; and a founding Director and former Vice President of The Inn of Transactional Couns...
Jerry Zaro, Chair of Banking and Real Estate Services Department, focuses his practice on banking and finance, real estate, corporate and government relations matters. He began his law career as a judicial secretary to the Honorable Thomas F. Shebell, Jr. in the Superior Court of Monmouth County. Prior to joining Sills Cummis & Gross, Mr. Zaro was the President and Managing Partner of Ansell Zaro Grimm and Aaron for 25 years and served as the Chair of the Commercial Real Estate and Financ...
Frederic M. Tudor, a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Corporate Department, serves as outside general counsel to a wide range of companies – from startups to established companies – providing guidance and assistance on general corporate, intellectual property/technology and financing matters. He focuses on counseling technology and other companies with respect to their international business operations and transactions, including negotiating and drafting complex SaaS, licens...
Ryan Beeck is an associate in CSG Law’s Corporate Group. Prior to joining the firm, Ryan was a law clerk for the Honorable Joseph L. Yannotti, P.J.A.D., New Jersey Superior Court, Appellate Division. Ryan earned his J.D. from Rutgers Law School where he was elected to the Order of the Coif, an Executive Editor for the Rutgers University Law Review , a student attorney for the Rutgers Community and Transactional Lawyering Clinic and was awarded the Morris Gann Prize in Evidence. During l...
Jennie Miller is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law and Health Care Law. Jennie, who practices law in Newark, New Jersey, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Jennie is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.
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