Donna is a Shareholder in the Real Estate and Leasing Departments and Chair of the Leasing Practice Group. She currently focuses her practice on the review and negotiation of commercial leases representing both landlords and tenants, with a specific focus on office, retail and ground leases. Donna also assists with the negotiation of letters of intent, and prepares and negotiates other leasing documents including subleases, SNDAs, lease workouts, landlord waivers and tenant estoppels. Her diverse legal experience includes commercial litigation, where Donna handled all aspects of litigation for business clients from pleadings and written discovery to motion practice and trial. Donna also represented banks in their title insurance reviews, as well as purchasers, sellers and borrowers in their residential and commercial real estate transactions.
Donna received her BA from Rutgers University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and her JD from Rutgers University School of Law, where she was a member of the Rutgers Law Review.
Practice Areas
Practice Focus
- Commercial Leasing
Professional Activities
- Member of the Board of Trustees, MonmouthCares
- Member, CREW NJ
- Member, Monmouth Regional Chamber of Commerce
- Member, Monmouth Bar Association
- Member, New Jersey State Bar Association
Admissions
- New Jersey
Education
- Rutgers University School of Law - Newark, J.D. (1998)
- Rutgers University, B.A. (1995)
Honors/Awards
- Member of Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society*
- Editor of Rutgers Law Review
News
- Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla Names Commercial Leasing Shareholder and Real Property Tax, Affordable Housing Chairs
- Commercial Landlord Cleared of Duty To Remove Snow, Ice Before Storm Ends
- Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, P.C. Welcomes Donna A. McBarron
Articles/Publications
- "Landlord Windfalls Do Not Necessarily Absolve a Defaulting Tenant," March 3, 2020
- "If You Don't Recognize Your Tenant, It May Be Time to Revisit the Assignment Provision In Your Lease," Dimensions, Spring/Summer 2019
- "Is a Form of Rent Control Coming to New York City's Commercial Spaces?" New Jersey Redevelopment Blog, October 12, 2018
- "The New Jersey Supreme Court Issues Its Gap Period Decision," NJ Environmental Law Blog, January 18, 2017
- "Interested in Affordable Housing? Now is the Time to Put Municipalities On Notice," GH&C Updates, May 18, 2015
- "Affordable Housing Is Now In The Hands of the Trial Courts," GH&C Updates, March 10, 2015
- "Fourteen Years Later And Still No Third Round Regulations," NJ Environmental Law Blog, October 23, 2014
- "COAH Releases Its Long-Awaited Regulations," GH&C Alerts, May 1, 2014
- "The COAH Saga Continues," GH&C Alerts, March 14, 2014
- "Negotiating Assignment and Sublease Provisions in Commercial Leases," New Jersey Law Journal, April 5, 2004
