Scarinci Hollenbeck

The corporate and commercial transactions services we provide to our clients encompass a number of areas, including: The formation, organization, ownership, control and dissolution of corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and joint ventures Shareholder and operating agreements Negotiation of contracts and agreements with vendors, suppliers, licensees, distributors, and other related entities Representation of the parties to and financiers of mergers, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and other commercial restructurings Corporate governance, management and control, and crisis management, including in connection with family run companies and close-corporations

Scarinci Hollenbeck’s environmental and land use practice is one of the most experienced and well-respected in the region. The sophisticated legal skills, extensive experience and strong reputation of the attorneys that constitute the firm’s Environmental and Land Use Law Group has made us an integral participant in the development/redevelopment of industrial and commercial properties, brownfields redevelopment and energy and transportation infrastructure projects in New Jersey and throughout the New York Metropolitan area. Our clients, coming to us from a broad range of industry groups, rely on our attorneys to provide them with innovative and strategic solutions to their most pressing environmental and land use issues. We offer the full spectrum of services, from regulatory compliance counseling and management of environmental liabilities in corporate and financial transactions, to solid waste management and representation in civil, criminal and administrative proceedings.

The attorneys in our Intellectual Property (“IP”) group handle the full spectrum of Intellectual Property (IP) matters. We assist clients nationally and throughout the world by securing, enforcing, and leveraging intellectual property rights wherever needed and however possible. The attorneys in this practice group include members of the Patent Bar, litigators, and true business and legal problem solvers. We recognize that our clients’ trademarks, patents, copyrights, proprietary technology, and trade secrets are among their most valuable assets, and that securing protection of such IP will ensure long lasting benefits.

Scarinci Hollenbeck provides advice and counsel with respect to all matters regarding employer/employee relations. We frequently counsel our clients with regard to issues concerning contract negotiations, the administration of labor agreements, disciplinary proceedings, grievance and public sector interest arbitrations and employment discrimination matters. Our attorneys also provide general advice and counsel, and present seminars and training sessions, with regard to employment policies, employee manuals, reductions in force and the establishment of employment practices and preventive programs which minimize the potential for litigation.

The firm’s litigation practice is comprised of highly qualified and experienced attorneys, including those Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as Civil and Criminal trial attorneys, who are capable of representing clients in varied types of general, commercial, employment and criminal litigation, ranging from relatively simple contractual matters to litigation involving complex questions of law and fact. Our attorneys appear before State and Federal trial and appellate courts, as well as regulatory and administrative agencies at all levels. Our philosophy includes partnering with our litigation clients in order to strategize an end game, while always keeping the big picture in mind. We are goal oriented and we understand the emotional and economic importance of the litigation process to our clients.

Scarinci Hollenbeck provides a spectrum of sophisticated legal services in the areas of business and personal tax, trusts, & estates planning. The tax, trusts, & estates attorneys at Scarinci Hollenbeck provide highly-personalized, responsive service to its clients as they counsel them at all the critical stages of their lives. Our years of experience and unparalleled knowledge in the areas of tax and estate planning allows us to plan for the least possible tax burden and administrative expense while maintaining maximum flexibility to realize each one of our client’s unique objectives.

Our approach to public law, together with our diversity of experience, allows us to provide our clients with comprehensive and cost effective services across several disciplines of public sector law practice. The legal issues facing public entities today continue to increase in complexity and significance. At the same time, budgetary constraints require that our public sector clients become increasingly sensitive to all public expenditures, including the cost of securing competent legal representation.

Scarinci Hollenbeck's Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Attorneys are skilled in the enforcement of creditors’ rights and work with various financial institutions, corporations, insurance companies, leasing, and finance companies, and other organizations and business entities interested in preserving and enforcing their rights as creditors. Our attorneys routinely advise creditors regarding their rights and remedies in bankruptcy, under the Uniform Commercial Code, in foreclosures, and in other types of recovery of real and personal property, secured and unsecured transactions, and other areas of commercial law. In doing so, we bring together attorneys with broad and diverse business experience in order to help the firm’s clients achieve creative, expeditious, and cost-effective solutions. When appropriate, on matters requiring an interdisciplinary approach, attorneys often consult with other attorneys within Scarinci Hollenbeck’s comprehensive Corporate Transaction & Business, Commercial Real Estate, Crisis & Risk Management, Insurance & Liability, eDiscovery, Environmental and, in some instances, International Law & Trade practice groups. Amply resourced, this extensive business and corporate law expertise enables Scarinci Hollenbeck to regularly achieve more favorable results for its clients. Scarinci Hollenbeck delivers comprehensive services to financially impacted entities, including financial institutions, corporations, insurance companies, leasing and finance companies, and other organizations and businesses involved in the recovery and potential or actual restructuring of problem business credits.

At Scarinci Hollenbeck, we represent many public, private, and institutional clients, assisting them in every aspect of the acquisition, development, financing, construction, and utilization of real property assets. Our Commercial Real Estate transactional group is made up of accomplished practitioners with many years of experience. Moreover, they work closely with our Environmental attorneys, who have a proven track record in securing development rights for some of the largest office, retail, industrial, and multi-family development and redevelopment projects in the region. Rounding out the picture, our Commercial Lending Group, an acknowledged leader in the industry, ably assists our clients in handling their real estate financing needs. A sophisticated real estate asset practice entails the need for expertise in varied matters. With over twenty lawyers and paraprofessionals, our Commercial Real Estate Group is committed to providing the highest degree of excellence with respect to every area of the practice at predictable and conservative rates. Our lawyers have extensive experience in such diverse areas as Mount Laurel requirements, environmental remediation, smart growth and green development, redevelopment, like-kind exchanges, commercial condominiums, construction contracts, farmland assessments, real property tax appeals, and PILOT agreements, among others, making Scarinci Hollenbeck your single source for real estate development and utilization. Whether the property in question is an office building, a retail shopping mall, a planned unit residential development, a warehouse, a hotel, or an industrial facility, and whether you require assistance in buying, leasing, financing, developing, or redeveloping, we have the expertise to accomplish your goals. Check the Commercial Real Estate group’s attorney profiles for a list of representative matters.

Scarinci Hollenbeck’s Government Strategies practice group enacts a cross-discipline approach to service the needs of local, state and federal governments, as well as private-owned businesses, in numerous matters involving interaction with governmental entities of any level. Our attorneys regularly assist clients in numerous government-related matters including, but not limited to, public policy, energy and environment, budget, defense, healthcare, financial services, transportation & infrastructure, congressional investigations, oversight issues, and more. The attorneys of the firm’s Government Strategies practice group regularly intersect their practice with the firm’s Environmental & Land Use, Litigation, Public and Business law practice groups to provide tailored legal services to each of our clients. We believe this collaborative philosophy is what enables the firm to position our clients for success in their various dealings with governmental entities.

Our knowledge and experience includes all phases of education law and labor relations. We are capable of providing all related trial and appellate litigation, as well as administrative agency work. We negotiate collective bargaining agreements, conduct mediation and fact-finding proceedings, and frequently appear at grievance arbitration hearings. We routinely appear before the Commissioner of Education, the Civil Service Commission, the School Ethics Commission, the New Jersey Public Employment Relations Commission and the Office of Administrative Law. In addition, several members of the firm litigate all types of education disputes on a routine basis. We provide legal research and advisory opinions to our clients as needed and review and draft resolutions and motions on a regular basis. We review and draft contracts and agreements and are available to attend all regular and special meetings of our clients. We stay abreast of changes promulgated by the Department of Education and advise our clients with regard to how it impacts spending, employment contracts, and the collective bargaining process in the educational setting.

Legal sales of cannabis and related products in the United States totaled nearly $7 billion in 2016, and future sales are forecasted to be more than $30 billion by 2021 and $50 billion by 2026. The trajectory of the emerging legal cannabis industry in New Jersey has created innumerable potential opportunities for entrepreneurs and businesses. However, the industry is subject to unique complexities, including the conflict between Federal and state cannabis laws, the intricacies of cannabis laws passed by the individual states, and the rights and obligations of businesses that interface with legal cannabis industry members. The Cannabis Law practice group at Scarinci Hollenbeck, LLC assists clients in understanding current and potential medical and adult-use cannabis laws and legislation. To accomplish these objectives our attorneys draw upon expertise in more than a dozen practice areas, including: Cannabis Law and Policy, Environmental & Land Use, Licensing and Franchising, Commercial Real Estate, Litigation, Corporate Transactions and Business, Insurance Recovery and Liability, Public Law, Crisis and Risk Management, Intellectual Property, Tax, Trust & Estates, Cyber Security and Data Protection, Labor and Employment, and Zoning.

By 2021, it is predicted that cybercrime will cost the world in excess of $6 trillion annually, a steep uptick from $3 trillion in 2015. Countries have only started to introduce and implement privacy laws in the hopes of curbing these losses. Privacy laws are intricate, constantly evolving and vary by jurisdiction. Conversely, the laws surrounding cyber protection of virtual infrastructures is becoming an increasing complexity. Any misstep could lead to sharp consequences: heavy fines, injunctions, government audits, criminal liability, negative media attention and damage to consumer confidences. Our Cyber Security & Data Privacy Group spans the full range of practice areas including but not limited to litigation, corporate, financial and banking, intellectual property. Our experiences range the gamut of industry sectors including financial institutions and banking, biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and chemicals, environmental, construction and engineering, consumer goods and retail, automotive, hotels and leisure, IT, telecommunications, manufacturing and electronics, publishing and media. Our local access to federal and state authorities and a global alliance of legal and technical professionals enable our team to address the most urgent of client needs. As such, we are uniquely capable of: Developing and implementing data breach response protocols and policies; Conducting privacy and cybersecurity audits; Developing data privacy agreements; Coordinate criminal and civil responses following a data breach; Assist clients in understanding and complying with the legal standards spanning from protection of data to breach responses; and Handling any privacy-related claims and disputes.

The attorneys in Scarinci Hollenbeck’s Entertainment, Media, and Sports Law Group are well-versed in the unique issues and challenges facing those in the entertainment, media, and sports industries. Our attorneys have significant collective experience in a plethora of entertainment, media, and sports matters, and have represented clients in transactions stemming from all types of contracts, negotiations, mediations, arbitrations, as well as other dispute resolution. They have expertise in areas including print media, literary, music, television, motion picture, broadcast and cable television, radio, advertisement/branding. Other areas of concentration include but are not limited to, fine art, and digital technologies.

The Financial Services and Regulatory Practice Group’s highly qualified attorneys have decades of experience advising on sophisticated transactions and guiding a diverse clientele through a technical and changing regulatory landscape. Our pragmatic business judgment, strategic planning, and proven expertise in resolving complex problems have won outstanding results for our clients in state and federal civil litigations and in matters before all levels of the SEC, CFTC, FINRA and state and local administrative agencies. We address each client’s unique business needs with a team approach that capitalizes on the knowledge and insights of our Firm’s seasoned practitioners in compliance, supervision, litigation, banking, cybersecurity and privacy, corporate governance and transactions, insurance, employment, tax and bankruptcy law. Our unique perspectives on regulatory problem-solving are shaped by a deep and diverse experience—our attorneys have previously served with the SEC, the New York or New Jersey Attorneys General Office, as internal counsel at some of the largest banks, broker-dealers and RIAs, or with private law firms that routinely advise multinational financial institutions. Our ability to expertly handle transactions, compliance functions, and litigation matters allows us to develop extensive relationships with our clients, and these relationships enhance our ability to deliver tailored legal solutions that drive profitability and growth.

Over the years, Scarinci Hollenbeck has represented clients in numerous mergers and acquisitions and divestiture transactions, ranging from deals worth several million to hundreds of millions of dollars. With respect to merger, acquisition and divestiture transactions, we counsel our clients in the planning, structuring, negotiating, financing and closing of such transactions, providing practical guidance throughout the deal cycle, from the pre-letter of intent stage through post-deal integration or winding down of the client’s business. Over the years, we have represented clients in numerous substantial M&A and divestiture transactions, ranging from deals worth several million to hundreds of millions of dollars.

Our attorneys have collectively represented a wide variety of business and technology clients in patent, trademark, copyright, and related intellectual property matters. This representation encompasses transactions involving technology and intellectual property, such as joint development projects, collaboration arrangements, IP licensing, and manufacturing, distribution, and strategic sourcing agreements. We offer a full range of services necessary to assist clients in transactions involving technology and intellectual property. Working collaboratively with a variety of practice groups in our firm, our technology law attorneys are able to assist our clients in establishing the core business terms of their deals and advise on matters including intellectual property rights allocation, licensing terms, warranties, indemnities, and the like. They handle trademark prosecution, patent and know-how licensing, joint development projects, collaboration arrangements, IP licensing, manufacturing, distribution, strategic sourcing agreements, domain name consultation, arbitration, and litigation. These transactions often relate to information technology, computers, software, the Internet, and e-commerce. Our technology attorneys also conduct due diligence investigations and negotiate terms regarding IP ownership in connection with mergers and acquisitions, and other strategic business transactions. Also, our technology attorneys sometimes act as “outsourced general counsel” for technology companies.