Best Newark, New Jersey Real Estate Lawyers
Jerry Zaro, Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross 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, he was the President and Managing Partner of Ansell Zaro Grimm and Aaron for 25 years and served as the Chair of the Commercial Real Estat...
Jason L. Sobel is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department and chairs the Firm’s F.O.R.E. (Family-Owned Real Estate) Law Practice Group. He primarily counsels retail, industrial, office and residential real estate owners and developers regarding acquisitions, sales, financing, and leasing with respect to their projects. He also represents several lending institutions in commercial and construction financings as well as a number of clients with respect to retail li...
Mark S. Levenson is Chair of the Real Estate Department, Chair of the Real Estate Transactions Practice Group, and Co-Chair of the Loan Workouts and Restructuring Practice Group at Sills Cummis & Gross. He handles a broad range of transactions for domestic and international clients, including traditional lending and finance, loan workouts and restructuring, acquisitions, development projects, joint venture and partnership work, office and retail leasing, corporate real estate advisory wor...
Thomas H. Prol is a Member of Sills Cummis & Gross. He practices business and litigation strategy with a focus on environmental, land use, and redevelopment law. Thomas Prol was appointed Chair of the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) by New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy in June 2023. In that role, he and his fellow commissioners oversee fiscal monitoring of Garden State election candidates and campaigns, monitor state independent expenditure committees, and regulate sta...
Robert R. Hempstead is Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Finance Practice Group. He focuses on the area of commercial real estate finance, including loan workouts and distressed loan purchases, with a strong background in the origination of commercial mortgage loans which are to be securitized in the capital markets. His practice covers a broad spectrum of deal structures and features, such as multi-asset portfolios, multiple classes of debt, mezzanine and other subordinate de...
Adam J. Faiella is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department. Mr. Faiella focuses his practice on land use, redevelopment, zoning, and related litigation. He represents property owners and developers with obtaining site plan, subdivision, and variance approvals from municipal and county land use boards throughout the State of New Jersey across all asset classes, with extensive experience in affordable housing and data centers. He also has experience with actions in lieu ...
Jeffrey Meltzer is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department. He has a broad range of commercial real estate experience and focuses his practice on the acquisition, disposition, financing, and leasing of commercial properties throughout the United States, including shopping centers, office/industrial buildings, apartment complexes, manufacturing facilities, and vacant land for development, in both single-asset and portfolio transactions. He represents institutional lende...
Frank J. Vitolo is Co-Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Land Use Law Practice Group. He is a recognized leader in planning, zoning, and redevelopment law. He maintains a statewide practice in New Jersey and has served as lead development counsel for many of the region’s major commercial real estate projects, including the planning and redevelopment of M-Station Morristown – New Jersey headquarters of Sanofi and Deloitte, Valley Bank’s new headquarters, as well as thousan...
Cecilia I. Lassiter is Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross State and Local Incentives Law Practice. She focuses her practice on state and local public incentives and real estate matters, with a particular emphasis on redevelopment, zoning and land use. Ms. Lassiter has extensive experience in redevelopment matters, including the designation of areas in need of redevelopment or areas in need of rehabilitation, and the negotiation and preparation of complex redevelopment agreements, purchase ...
Andrew J. Camelotto is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Real Estate Law. Andrew J. practices law in Newark, New Jersey Best Lawyers has recognized Andrew J. Camelotto since 2021. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Andrew J. Camelotto is held by other lawyers.
Meryl A.G. Gonchar is Leader of the Sills Cummis & Gross Redevelopment and Land Use Law Practice Groups. Her practice encompasses all aspects of land use, redevelopment, zoning and related litigation. She represents property owners and developers in appearances before planning and zoning boards throughout the state, in connection with obtaining land use approvals for residential, retail, office, industrial, hospitality and mixed-use projects. She represents clients in the negotiation of r...
Jaimee L. Katz Sussner is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Litigation Department. She concentrates her practice on commercial and real estate litigation. She litigates title disputes, foreclosures, asset recovery disputes, fraud, business divorce, commercial leasehold disputes, and other general commercial matters. She represents several national title insurance companies, and the parties that they insure, in resolving coverage issues, litigating claims, and pursuing loss mitigation.
Ivette P. Alvarado is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department. She focuses her practice on multiple disciplines within commercial real estate law. Beyond negotiating deals and drafting pertinent documents to memorialize terms, she takes a hands-on approach to serving her clients by advising them of potential risks, assisting them in problem solving and coordinating with their other professionals to successfully close deals.
Jeffrey Hugh Newman, CRRP, CRX, is Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department. He has been practicing in the area of real estate, real estate litigation, litigation strategy and positioning, and real estate finance for over 45 years bringing to his practice a background in corporate and business law, coupled with a Master’s Degree in Taxation. He is both a trusted business advisor and legal counselor to clients nationally and internationally.
Matthew J. Schiller is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Real Estate Law. Matthew J. practices law in Newark, New Jersey Best Lawyers has recognized Matthew J. Schiller since 2025. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Matthew J. Schiller is held by other lawyers.
Charles J. Wilkes is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Real Estate Law. Charles J. practices law in Newark, New Jersey Best Lawyers has recognized Charles J. Wilkes since 2021. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Charles J. Wilkes is held by other lawyers.
