Chiara R. Corliss and Steven W. Ward
By Joshua Burd
Giordano Halleran & Ciesla PC has named two new shareholders in its real estate and land use groups as part of four newly announced promotions on its Red Bank-based team.
According to the firm, those attorneys include Chiara R. Corliss of its planned real estate development practice. She primarily represents local, statewide and national builders in the preparation and filing of governing documents for planned real estate developments and the drafting and registration of public offering plans and related documents as regulated by the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, GHC said, adding that she represents commercial developers in the formation of industrial, office and commercial condominium projects.
Corliss also handles purchase and sale agreements, master deeds, declarations of covenants, bylaws and certificates of formation of condominium associations and homeowners’ associations as well as easement agreements between adjacent property owners, municipalities and other property owners. She graduated from Quinnipiac University School of Law in 2017 and the University of Connecticut in 2014.
Also rising to shareholder is Steven W. Ward, a member of the firm’s land use and development, litigation, creditors’ rights and bankruptcy and community association law practice areas. He represents developers, lenders, landlords and a range of business owners before municipal planning and zoning boards across the state, while serving as general counsel to condominium and homeowners’ associations.
Ward also handles litigation in collection, foreclosure and prerogative writ matters, according to a news release. He earned his juris doctor from New York Law School and his bachelor’s in 2009 from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Corliss and Ward earned their promotions alongside Evan X. Bakhet of GHC’s corporate and business practice group and Peter J. Guastella of the firm’s litigation practice group, whose clients include local businesses, national developers, contractors and other members of the construction and real estate sectors across the state. All of the promotions took effect on Jan. 1.
