Edward J. Butler, Jr. | McCarter & English, LLP

Clients ranging from landlords to lenders to developers rely on Edward Butler’s pragmatism to help them complete vital commercial real estate leasing, lending, and purchase and sale deals. Ed structures transactions involving every type of property—from office to retail to industrial to land—in ways that help clients accomplish their business goals.

When deals involve distressed property or loans, Ed draws from his prior experience supervising the management and disposition of a large troubled real estate loan portfolio as an officer of a large savings bank. This experience helps him advise clients on various lending or debt restructuring options that may help their businesses grow.

When Ed is not closing a deal or responding to a client’s question, you may find him playing golf or attending a Springsteen concert—more than 80 concerts and counting.

Represented a global leader in commercial real estate services and investment in a joint venture with a privately held insurance and financial services holding company for the recent acquisition of a 140,000-square-foot warehouse in the Northeast, with a goal to reposition the asset and lease the warehouse. The transaction involved, among other things, negotiations for the continued environmental remediation and resolution of issues with respect to zoning compliance.

Represented the seller in negotiating the sale of a 518,140-square-foot warehouse in Hamburg, Pennsylvania for $58 million.

Represented a real estate investment and property services firm in negotiating a 15-year lease of 290,000 square feet of office and laboratory space in Summit, New Jersey, to serve as the headquarters for a consumer health spinoff of a multinational pharmaceutical company.

Drafted and negotiated three lot purchase agreements for a real estate developer in a sale to a larger home builder company.

Representing a real estate development company in acquiring land at four sites in New Jersey and Pennsylvania for development of industrial space.

Negotiated the lease of a build-to-suit, 197,000-square-foot industrial building in New Jersey for a major national real estate developer with a global transport and logistics company.

Represented a major life insurance company in connection with an 875,000-square-foot lease with a multinational communications company.

Representing a real estate development and investment company in negotiating leases at a 450,000-square-foot shopping center in New Jersey, including with a large grocery chain, clothing outfitter chain, and cosmetics chain.

Assisted a self-storage company in securing financing for and acquiring self-storage facilities in multiple states.

Negotiated an 825,000-square-foot lease in a Class A office building in Newark, New Jersey.