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Professional Spotlight
CHIESA SHAHINIAN & GIANTOMASI PC
Francis J. Giantomasi Mitchell S. Berkey
Leadership of the Real
Estate, Real Property
Taxation & Incentives
and Redevelopment,
Land Use & Zoning
Groups are pictured.
Lisa A. John-Basta
Thomas J. Trautner Jr.
Jennifer M. Porter
John R. Lloyd
Gemma M. Giantomasi
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
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.
ON THE HORIZON
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.
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