Best Lawyers Near You in Nutley, New Jersey for Real Estate Law

Adam J. Faiella is a Member of the Sills Cummis & Gross Real Estate Department. Mr. Faiella focuses his practice on land use, redevelopment, zoning, affordable housing, 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.

Stanley Schwartz has more than 35 years of experience counseling clients across a broad spectrum of complex transactional matters, including mergers and acquisitions, real estate development projects, and debt and equity financing. Throughout his career, Stan has worked with publicly traded companies, many prominent real estate developers in the New York region and other major privately held businesses, guiding them over the life cycle of their businesses to the successful conclusion of their...

David Freylikhman is a real estate and corporate attorney experienced in complex real estate, finance and commercial business transactions both domestically and abroad. David represents property owners and operators, funds, sponsors and developers with respect to purchases, sales, assemblages, and the structuring of joint ventures and preferred equity investments in connection with the acquisition of property nationally and internationally. David’s deep real estate experience covers all...

Jeffrey Gussoff’s practice consists of a broad spectrum of real estate matters, including representation of lenders in commercial real estate mortgage and construction loans; all types of industrial, commercial and retail leasing; the acquisition, financing and development of commercial and multiuse properties; and the real estate aspects of complex corporate transactions. Jeff’s national practice includes the representation of institutional and private investors, lenders, public ...

Francis J. Giantomasi is a member of the firm's Real Estate, Development & Land Use Group. He has over four decades of experience in all aspects of real estate acquisitions, sales, development, complex commercial transactions and Chancery litigation, and has successfully argued before the New Jersey Appellate Division and the New Jersey Supreme Court. Frank is recognized as a leader in planning, zoning, and development law including tax abatement law for the City of Newark and urban areas...

Tom represents clients in commercial real estate transactions, including the sale, acquisition, leasing and mortgage financing of commercial, mutli-family, and industrial properties. He also provides representation in commercial property tax appeals, mortgage foreclosures and workouts, tax sale certificate foreclosures and condemnation valuation hearings. Throughout his career, Tom has counseled local and regional lenders, borrowers, developers, investors, and business owners/operators includ...

Marc Leibman is an experienced litigator with an extensive background in New Jersey Municipal Land Use Law (MLUL), real estate tax appeals, federal criminal law, New Jersey state criminal law and commercial litigation. For over fifteen years, commencing in 2004, Mr. Leibman was appointed by the United States District Court of New Jersey to represent criminal defendants in Federal Court on serious federal offenses. He has tried cases in federal court, including a 17-week RICO case. Mr. Leibman...

Thomas J. Trautner Jr. is an experienced real estate development lawyer, with a diverse practice serving as counselor, strategic architect and (when the situation calls) litigator. He excels in helping clients navigate the entitlements process through his breath of knowledge regarding subjects, which include redevelopment, eminent domain and affordable housing (allowing him to cost-effectively provide guidance on a broad range of issues). Early in his career, Tom’s practice often focuse...

Thomas H. Prol practices business and litigation strategy with a focus on environmental, land use, and redevelopment law at Sills Cummis & Gross P.C. He is admitted in New Jersey and New York and before numerous federal courts. Mr. Prol is a member of the American Bar Association Board of Governors and House of Delegates, a Life Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, a Life Fellow of the National Conference of Bar Presidents, and a trustee of the Monmouth Bar Association. On June 14, 2023...

Lisa John-Basta is Chair of the firm’s Redevelopment, Land Use & Zoning Group. Lisa has close to 20 years of experience representing both municipalities and private developers throughout the local and outside agency land use and redevelopment entitlement process. Lisa regularly appears before governing bodies, planning boards and zoning boards of adjustment across the State on behalf of developers in connection with applications for site plan, subdivision, variances and zoning inter...

Mark S. Levenson is Chair of the Real Estate Department and Chair of the Real Estate Transactions Practice Group. He also chairs the Firm’s Israel Business Practice Group. Mr. Levenson is a long-standing member of the Firm’s Management Committee. Mr. Levenson 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,...

Ann is a responsive and deeply experienced transactional lawyer whose practice encompasses the purchase, sale, leasing and financing of commercial and industrial real estate and business assets. She is recognized for her expertise related to environmental issues in the transactional setting, including leases and sale agreements, and the use of environmental insurance policies as a risk management tool. She handles the oversight and negotiation of environmental insurance claims in connection w...

Matthew J. Schiller is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Real Estate Law. Matthew J., 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 Matthew J. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Jeffrey Hugh Newman is a Member of the Firm, a member of the Firm’s Management and Executive Committees and Chair of the Real Estate Department. Mr. Newman has been practicing in the area of real estate, real estate litigation, litigation strategy and positioning and real estate finance for over forty years bringing to his practice a background in corporate and business law, coupled with a Master’s Degree in Taxation. Prior to practicing law, Mr. Newman worked as a financial analy...

Bob’s practice is devoted to providing support in the redevelopment and revitalization of communities throughout New Jersey. As co-Chair of the firm’s redevelopment practice, he brings decades of hands-on experience to the representation of private and public sector clients in countless redevelopment projects, including those related to downtown and urban revitalization efforts, transit-oriented development, sustainable building initiatives, special improvement districts (SIDs), a...

Ken is a commercial real estate attorney who focuses on sophisticated commercial transactions. He provides support to commercial property owners, developers, redevelopers, builders, landlords, tenants, real estate investment trusts (REITS), municipal entities and financial institutions in the sale, acquisition, leasing, financing and redevelopment of real property in New Jersey. Ken counsels clients on transactions involving both developed properties and land for future development. He advise...