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Jordan A. Stern is an associate in the firm’s Real Estate Department. Mr. Stern concentrates his practice in commercial real estate transactions, leasing and financing. Representative transactions in which Mr. Stern has participated include: a residential developer’s purchase of approximately 40 acres of vacant land subject to the New Jersey Highlands Water Protection and Planning Act; the acquisition of 13 assisted living facilities by a national owner/operator of such facilities; a publicly-traded REIT’s purchase of an office building portfolio and a property management company; senior housing developer’s permanent refinancing of a multi-million dollar construction loan in which the permanent lender is a State agency; the purchase of mixed use commercial property with retail, booth co-op, and residential tenants as a component of a 1031 like-kind exchange; the purchase of an interest in a portfolio of income-generating residential properties involving the dissolution of pass-through entities; the sale of residential real estate with a defective underground storage tank by the trust department of a national bank; a first mortgage loan and interest rate swap by the owner of vacant land for funding future development; the collection of past-due property tax increases from tenants in a retail strip center. Mr. Stern is the author of Dram Shop Liability Under the New Jersey Licensed Beverage Server Fair Liability Act, Mercer Business (November 2005) and contributes to the New Jersey Builders Association Ask the Builder column, which appears in newspapers across New Jersey. He also served as an intern to the Honorable Kenneth Mackenzie, Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division. Mr. Stern is a graduate of Syracuse University (1992), and earned his law degree from Rutgers University School of Law-Newark (2004). During law school, Mr. Stern was a Henry J. Raimondo Legislative Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, where he presently serves on the Alumni Fundraising Committee. Mr. Stern is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association and is admitted to practice in New Jersey and the United States District Court, District of New Jersey. | 