Chris is a member of the Real Estate Practice Group and serves as Co-Chair of our Banking and Commercial Lending Practice Group. His practice focuses extensively on financing transactions, working with borrowers, lenders and other financial institutions on all matters related to commercial lending including structuring, negotiation, and documentation of transactions involving a variety of asset classes. He advises and represents borrowers, lenders, and investors on transactions involving real estate acquisition and development financing, construction loans, working capital financing, asset-based lending and mezzanine loan financing. He also represents developers throughout the development process, landlord and tenants in commercial leasing arrangements and prepares planned unit development condominium approval documents, public offering statements and supporting documents for submission to the Department of Community Affairs.
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Other Professional and Personal Information
Prior to joining Giordano, Halleran and Ciesla, Chris served as Corporate Counsel to a New Jersey based real estate development company. Before his in-house position, Chris served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Eugene D. Serpentelli, A.J.S.C. and then went on to practice real estate, land use law, and litigation with a well-established Ocean County law firm for twelve years.Professional Activities
- Member, New Jersey State Bar Association
- Member, Monmouth Bar Association
Admissions
- New Jersey
- US District Court, District of New Jersey
- US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
- US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Education
- Suffolk University Law School, J.D.
- University of Massachusetts at Amherst, B.S.
