Our Attorneys

Chris Read is the Managing Partner of the firm and has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and managing complex commercial transactions in a variety of industries including solid waste and recycling, commercial real estate, construction and development, lending, transportation, medical and telecommunications. Representation includes mergers, asset acquisition and disposition transactions, stock acquisition and disposition transactions, strategic alliances, joint ventures and corporate formation and governance.

Chris has considerable experience representing investors, end users and developers in a wide array of real estate-related transactions including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, construction and development; and lenders and borrowers in connection with secured and unsecured revolving and term loan credit facilities, real estate acquisition financing, construction loans, letters of credit and permanent financing.

In recent years Chris has acted as lead counsel in more than 50 commercial real estate transactions for properties valued between $5,000,000 and $50,000,000, including apartment buildings, shopping centers, office buildings, industrial sites, self-storage facilities, transfer stations and mixed-use properties on Long Island, in New York City, Westchester, Connecticut and Northern New Jersey.

For the past several years, Mr. Read has been actively involved in the acquisition, disposition, leasing and/or and development of intermodal solid waste transfer and transload facilities, roll-off and hauling companies and has represented clients in the acquisition and development of rail and truck served transfer stations throughout Long Island, New York City, Upstate New York and Northern New Jersey.