AT A GLANCE
105 Eisenhower Parkway
Roseland, NJ 07068
OUR EXPERTISE
- Acquisitions
- Dispositions
- Financing
- Loan workouts
- Development/redevelopment
- Land use/zoning
- Affordable housing
- Joint ventures and equity raising
- PILOTs/incentives
- Commercial leasing
- Hospitality
- Liquor licensing
- Condominiums
- Condemnation
- Construction
- Property management
- Renewable energy and sustainability
- Real estate litigation and dispute resolution
Francis J. Giantomasi
Mitchell S. Berkey
Lisa A. John-Basta
Thomas J. Trautner Jr.
Jennifer M. Porter
John R. Lloyd
Gemma M. Giantomasi
Leadership of the Real Estate, Real Property Taxation & Incentives and Redevelopment, Land Use & Zoning Groups are pictured.
OUR CLIENTS
The CSG Law Real Estate Group proudly represents clients across a broad spectrum, including private- and public-sector owners, developers, investors, lenders and users in all real estate asset classes. From international investors and publicly held investor/owners, to prominent national, regional and local owners, developers and lenders, to streaming giants and film studios and Fortune 100 users of real estate, our private-sector clients benefit from our strategic counsel to navigate complex and often high-profile projects and transactions both in New Jersey and markets throughout the country.
CSG Law’s public-sector clients — including energy and utilities providers, municipalities and other governmental entities — seek us out for our deep experience at the intersection of the public and private sectors to help achieve their expanding and evolving goals and objectives.
TRANSACTION SPOTLIGHT
CSG Law’s track record spearheading complex and noteworthy projects and transactions has led our combined Real Estate, Redevelopment, Land Use & Zoning and Real Property Taxation & Incentives teams to be named Real Estate Firm of the Year at the 2025 New Jersey Legal Awards. The combined CSG Real Estate Group has earned numerous accolades, including being named Dealmakers of the Year by the New Jersey Law Journal and a Regional Powerhouse by Law360. Members of the CSG Real Estate Group have garnered multiple individual honors including recognition in The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, NJBIZ and ROI-NJ, to name a few.
CSG Real Estate Group’s significant transactions that have helped shape the real estate landscape in New Jersey and beyond include:
- Multibillion-dollar ground leasing and modernization of terminals and distribution facilities at Port Elizabeth, NJ;
- $850 million acquisition of an 18-property multifamily portfolio in New Jersey;
- $116 million acquisition of a multifamily asset in New Jersey;
- $114 million acquisition of a high-rise multifamily asset with ground-floor retail and indoor parking in Chicago, Illinois;
- $99 million construction loan secured by property in New York, NY
- $83.5 million loan workout and refinancing of a commercial portfolio in New York, NY;
- $36 million sale/leaseback of commercial property in New Jersey; and
- Serving as acquisition and disposition counsel, lender and borrower counsel and landlord and tenant leasing counsel on acquisitions, sales, debt facilities and lease transactions in markets throughout the United States.
ONE MORE THING
CSG Law’s Real Estate Group takes great pride in building deep and long-lasting relationships with our clients. We carefully craft these relationships by taking the time to listen to our clients and understand their business, processes and goals. Listening leads to the highest level of collaboration — which sets the framework for CSG Law to work closely with our clients and add value at every step of the way. With that entrenched relationship in place, we capitalize on our extraordinary depth and wealth of knowledge developed over decades in the real estate trenches through multiple cycles involving all asset classes. We top it all off by judiciously leveraging our reputation and trust earned over more than 50 years to navigate the mercurial intersection of the public and private sectors. This multifaceted, value-add approach has established CSG Law as the premier go-to, one-stop shop for impactful and cost-effective real estate solutions locally, regionally and nationally.
