Real Estate/Land Use/Environmental
Real estate and environmental lawyers in Porzio’s Life Sciences Industry Group assist companies with the full range of issues relating to physical space needs – office, research and development facilities, manufacturing or warehouse. We will help your company negotiate a lease, purchase or sell a building, construct a new facility, clean-up a contaminated site, manage the construction process, reduce your real property taxes, and defend your valuable property rights.
We have represented many Life Sciences companies looking to expand their facilities – in New Jersey and elsewhere. Because of our intimate knowledge of Life Sciences companies, we can effectively negotiate leases or purchase agreements to suit your company’s special needs, conduct thorough due diligence, advise you on the types of permits or approvals that may be required, and assist you with financing.
For Life Sciences companies looking to construct new facilities or expand facilities in New Jersey, our land use attorneys will lead you through the intricate maze of municipal, county and state permitting processes. We will recognize and address potential impediments early in the process, and help expedite that process. We also will help you identify whether your project may be eligible for special financial or tax incentive, as well as hidden costs and exactions that may impact your project.
For our clients with new or existing facilities in and around New Jersey, we offer a specialized real property tax appeal service to ensure that our clients’ property is assessed fairly and reasonably.
Our environmental attorneys counsel Life Sciences clients in all aspects of environmental regulation, including air emissions, wastewater discharges, solid and hazardous waste transportation and disposal, permitting, and the siting, construction and operation of Life Sciences facilities. We are familiar with and ready to counsel clients with regard to the developing laws and regulations on disposal of outdated drugs. We also defend clients when orders and penalty assessments are imposed by federal, state and county agencies.
Whether constructing a new building in a developed area of the state, or rehabilitating an existing property for use or sale, many Life Sciences companies doing business in New Jersey will experience the arduous task of remediating contaminated sites. Because Porzio’s environmental attorneys have forged productive relationships with key New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection personnel and assisted in developing many of the policies and procedures that govern “brownfields” today, we are uniquely skilled to lead our Life Sciences clients through this often confusing and frustrating process.
