Real Estate Sales

MARC L. RIPP

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Short Hills, New Jersey 07078-3027

973-***-**** (Home); 973-***-**** (Cell)

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EDUCATION

Columbia Law School, Columbia University, New York, New York; J.D. degree received in 1983 Columbia College, Columbia University, New York, New York; B.A. degree in English received in 1980 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

Structured, negotiated, drafted, closed, administered and enforced for New Jersey’s most prominent commercial real estate developers hundreds of leases involving urban and suburban office, industrial, warehouse and retail properties in transactions covering corporate headquarters, restaurants, medical practices, retail stores, hospitals, schools and day care centers; prepared and finalized ancillary lease documents, such as proposals, letters of intent, commission agreements, agency agreements, construction contracts, property management contracts, vendor agreements, storage licenses, parking agreements, satellite dish agreements, personal guaranties, default notices, commencement date notices, memoranda of lease, workletters, non-disturbance, attornment and subordination instruments, lease modifications memorializing renewals, expansions, contractions, early lease terminations and relocations; invoked landlords’ remedies and enforced leases against defaulting tenants and their guarantors; restructured leases of defaulting tenants; challenged tenants’ requests for operating cost audits; resolved end-of-term restoration and repair disputes with vacating tenants; secured lender approvals for leases in mortgage encumbered buildings; consummated landlord consent agreements for subleases, lease assignments, lien subordinations and leasehold alterations; abstracted leases for Senior Management; resolved lease commencement/construction delay disputes; issued and collected estoppel certificates for property sales and refinancings; settled casualty-related rent abatement claims (e.g., Hurricane Sandy) EXPERIENCE

Law Offices of Marc L. Ripp, Short Hills, New Jersey Solo Practitioner, October, 2015-Present

Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, Edison, New Jersey

Senior Associate General Counsel, 2006-September, 2015 Gale & Wentworth, LLC (predecessor to The Gale Company, LLC), Florham Park, New Jersey Leasing Counsel, 1997-2006

Bellemead Development Corporation, Roseland, New Jersey Vice President, 1986-1997

Bachner,Tally & Polevoy, New York, New York

Associate Real Estate Attorney, 1983-1986

PUBLICATIONS

Authored articles on all aspects of commercial real estate law for the following periodicals: Commercial Lease Law Insider, Commercial Tenant’s Lease Insider and New Jersey Law Journal; contributing author of Vendome’s Best Commercial Lease Clauses

AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS

Ranked “AV,” the highest attorney rating from Martindale-Hubbell; received the New Jersey State Bar Association

“Professional Achievement Award” for legal excellence; appointed as a Commercial Mediator by the Superior Court of Morris County, New Jersey; appointed as a Small Claims Court Arbitrator by the New York City Civil Court BAR MEMBERSHIPS

Admitted to the New York Bar in 1984, the New Jersey Bar in 1986 and the United States Supreme Court Bar in 1989

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