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Professional Spotlight
MURPHY SCHILLER & WILKES LLP (MSW)
Kellen F. Murphy
Managing Partner and Chair
of Acquisitions and Sales
practice group
Chris J. Murphy
Chair of Land Use, Zoning
and Redevelopment and
Tax Credits and Incentives
practice groups
OUR EXPERTISE
♦ Acquisitions and sales
♦ Banking and commercial finance
♦ Commercial leasing
♦ Construction law
♦ Corporate
♦ Distressed real estate
♦ Environmental
♦ Land use, zoning and redevelopment
♦ Litigation
♦ Planning and development services
♦ Real estate finance
♦ Tax credits and incentives
OUR CLIENTS
MSW represents a wide range of
clients, including major national and
international developers, national and
regional lending institutions, institutional
investors, national contractors
and subcontractors, family offices,
landlords, tenants and other owners
and developers of real property. Our
boutique structure and multidisciplinary
model allow us to serve an exceptionally
diverse client base — from some of
the largest real estate developers and
private equity firms in the country to
closely held family offices.
TRANSACTION
SPOTLIGHT
MSW recently represented the
following:
■ National bank in connection with
the modification of a $125 million
Matthew J. Schiller
Chair of Commercial
Leasing, Distressed Real
Estate and Opportunity Zone
practice groups
Charles J. Wilkes
Chair of Banking and
Commercial Finance and
Real Estate Finance practice
groups
revolving line of credit for a New
Jersey-based company.
■ Developer in connection with a $120
million Aspire tax credit for a mixed-
use project in Central Jersey.
■ Developer in connection with a
$92 million senior mortgage and
mezzanine loan refinance of a first-
class multifamily asset in North Jersey.
■ Developer in connection with a $90
million acquisition of entitled land
for the development of a 200-unit
multifamily project in Morris County,
New Jersey.
■ Developer in connection with the
Anthony Capasso
Chair of Litigation and
Construction Law practice
groups
Brant Forrest
Chair of Commercial
Litigation practice group
joint venture and the land acquisition
for an $87 million development
project in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
■ National real estate development
firm in connection with the $74 million
acquisition of a 360,000-square-foot
industrial facility in central New Jersey.
■ National REIT in connection with
modification of a $67 million loan
secured by portfolio of industrial
properties in Palo Alto, California.
■ Nonprofit performing arts center in
connection with a $65 million CAFE
tax credit for a project in Morristown,
New Jersey.
ON THE HORIZON
MSW is focused on the continued
expansion of our integrated
commercial real estate and
construction law platform. Our
national transactional practice is
scaling rapidly, driven by growing
demand for sophisticated deal
execution across acquisitions and
sales, commercial leasing, financing
and joint venture and partnership
structuring. At the same time, our
statewide Land Use, Zoning and
Redevelopment group and our
Tax Credits and Incentives group
continue to deepen their footprint,
advising on some of New Jersey’s
most transformative redevelopment
and incentive-driven projects.
We also anticipate continued
growth within our Litigation and
Construction Law practice groups,
as clients increasingly seek clear,
business-oriented guidance in a
complex and evolving market.
As the market gravitates toward
firms capable of delivering
coordinated, multidisciplinary
counsel, MSW is uniquely positioned
to capture that momentum. Our
goal is straightforward: to solidify
our standing as the go-to law firm
for sophisticated commercial real
estate and construction matters,
both regionally and nationally. With
continued investment in talent,
technology and practice integration,
we expect meaningful growth
across all pillars of the firm in the
years ahead.
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