Jack Fersko

Practice Areas

Co-Chair, Real Estate practice. Legal services emphasize industrial and commercial real estate acquisition, project financing, disposition and leasing; acquisition, redevelopment and disposition of environmentally contaminated properties; the impact of environmental issues on real estate and business transactions; urban redevelopment; and sustainable development, including the use of renewable sources and solar energy; EPC, lease, O&M and PPA agreements for solar projects. Expertise in high-value and complex transactions. Provides counsel related to the business and legal impacts of a New Jersey-based cannabis industry.

Professional Memberships

American College of Real Estate Lawyers: Fellow, Chair, Programs Committee, Chair, Energy Subcommittee of Land Use and Environmental Committee;

American Bar Foundation Fellow

American Bar Association: Council Member, Real Property, Trust and Estate Law Section; RPTE Section Committee on Groups and Substantive Committees, Co-Chair; Special Investors and Investment Structure Group, Council Representative; Government Submissions Task Force, past Chair; RPTE Section Leasing Group, past Chair; Section of Environment, Energy and Resources

NJ State Bar Association: Cannabis and Psychedelics Law Special Committee, Co-Chair, Corporate-Transactional Subcommittee, Corporate Sustainability, Cleantech, and Climate Change Special Committee

Jewish Bar Association of New Jersey

NAIOP NJ: Board of Trustees, Legislative Committee, Energy & Sustainability Committee, Legal Action Committee

NAIOP national: Former Chair, Environmental and Infrastructure Committee

IOREBA: Executive Committee

Publications

Editor and Contributor, “Commercial Real Estate Transactions in New Jersey” (ICLE 2019 – Fourth Edition)

Contributor, “Commercial Real Estate Transactions Handbook” (Aspen Press, updated to 2019)

Contributor, “Brownfields – A Comprehensive Guide to Redevelopment of Contaminated Property” (ABA 2010)