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HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR TARGET CLIENT BASE?
Our client base is comprised of institutional and non- institutional real estate developers and owners, including many of the leading local and regional developers, such
as the Hampshire Companies, Prism Capital Partners, Vision Real Estate Partners, Lennar Corp. and its affiliates, Normandy Real Estate Partners, Woodmont Properties, MCB Real Estate LLC, Mack-Cali Realty Corp., Camber Real Estate Partners, Acadia Realty Trust and Lincoln Equities Group.
WHAT IS A NOTEWORTHY TRANSACTION OR PROJECT
THAT YOUR FIRM HAS WORKED ON RECENTLY?
This has been a banner year for the Fox Real Estate Department. Highlights included representation of:
A joint venture between Vision Real Estate Partners and Rubenstein Partners of a 315,000-square-foot office lease with Everest Reinsurance Company at the Warren Corporate Center in Warren, New Jersey. The lease is
properties totaling more than 1.3 million square feet in New Jersey to Colony Capital. The portfolio included 30 industrial properties on 83 acres, with a 99% occupancy rate, and three additional development sites totaling 46 acres.
Camber Real Estate Partners in the acquisition of a fully leased, light industrial portfolio in Mahwah, New Jersey containing three buildings in excess of 400,000 square feet.
Mack-Cali Realty Corp. in the acquisition of land in Jersey City for $65 million that will contain 800 waterfront apartments.
A joint venture between Woodmont Properties and The Klein Group in the acquisition of a shopping center located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania containing approximately 389,000 square feet.
MCB Real Estate and Artemis Real Estate Partners in the acquisition of an industrial building in Palmetto, Georgia, containing 1 million square feet of space.
Normandy Real Estate Partners in connection with Normandy’s sale of Normandy Real Estate Management, LLC (which is a developer, operator and investment manager of office and mixed-use assets in New York, Boston and Washington, D.C.), to Columbia Property Trust, Inc. for $100,000,000.
WHY SHOULD A CLIENT CHOOSE YOU OVER THE
COMPETITION?
Our experience enables us to quickly discern the key legal issues in a transaction. We understand how difficult it is for developers to find deals that work economically in this state’s competitive marketplace.
Lawyers must drive the momentum of a deal and do everything possible to diligently negotiate and document the deal as quickly as possible to eliminate any extraneous variables that can interfere with the closing. Partner Robert Klausner believes that in every transaction, there may be 30 issues, of which no more than 20 to 25 are truly worth negotiating. Typically, the business person believes only 5 to 10 issues are necessary to negotiate. A good lawyer knows how to focus on additional issues without slowing the momentum of the deal.
one of the 10 largest office leases in the last decade in northern/central New Jersey and a key step in advancing the repositioning of this 800,000-square-foot complex that includes an innovative 20,000-square-foot amenities hub.
PTC Therapeutics, a gene therapy company, in its long- term lease of 185,000 square feet of office and lab space at the former Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. campus in Hopewell, NJ. The deal is an important piece of revitalizing the 1.1 million-square-foot site, giving PTC access to a state-of- the-art biologics production facility and research and operations buildings.
The Hampshire Companies in its sale of 33 industrial
AT A GLANCE...
HEADQUARTERS: 49 Market St., Morristown, NJ 07960
TOTAL NUMBER OF ATTORNEYS: 140 (New Jersey); 956 (firm-wide)
TOTAL NUMBER OF REAL ESTATE ATTORNEYS: 26 (New Jersey); 169 (firm-wide)
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