Greenbaum, Rowe, Smith & Davis LLP

Firm Overview

For more than 100 years, Greenbaum has helped shape how New Jersey works, representing businesses, public entities, and individuals with interests in the Garden State and surrounding areas. Known for understanding the “ins and outs” of handling legal challenges in the state, the firm has a network of longstanding business, legal, and government relationships which translates directly into an advantage for its mid-market, Fortune 500, family-owned business, institutional, and private clients.

Litigation

Greenbaum’s litigation practice is widely recognized as one of New Jersey’s premier litigation teams, representing clients in complex disputes across a broad range of industries, from routine commercial matters to high-stakes “bet-the-company” litigation. The group represents small businesses, middle-market companies, multinational corporations, institutional clients, trade associations, public entities, corporate executives, and shareholders. Greenbaum litigators bring extensive trial and dispute resolution experience, regularly appearing in state and federal courts, before regulatory agencies and governmental bodies, and in arbitration and mediation proceedings. The team combines rigorous legal and factual analysis with a practical understanding of each client’s business and financial objectives to assess risk, develop tailored strategies, and determine the most effective path to resolution, whether through negotiation, litigation, arbitration, or appeal.

Corporate

The Business & Corporate practice advises businesses, owners, and decision-makers on a broad range of transactional and strategic matters throughout the business life cycle, representing clients from entrepreneurs and emerging companies to established middle-market, family-owned, regional, and national businesses across numerous industries. The firm’s M&A practice focuses primarily on middle-market transactions, representing both buyers and sellers, including closely held and family-owned businesses, private equity-backed companies, and other privately owned enterprises, and guiding clients through every stage from due diligence and financing to negotiation, documentation, and closing. The team also handles sophisticated deal structures and complex issues such as earnouts, rollover equity, and post-closing relationships, while serving as outside general counsel to small and middle-market companies that need ongoing business and legal guidance.

Real Estate

The Real Estate practice is a foundational part of the firm’s history, representing buyers, sellers, lenders, borrowers, landlords, tenants, developers, investors, entrepreneurs, and REITs in transactions involving all major asset classes and sectors throughout New Jersey. The practice handles acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, financing, redevelopment, and sustainability-focused projects involving commercial and residential properties, including individual property and portfolio transactions, as well as complex membership and stock purchase and sale transactions. With experience spanning warehouses and facilities, multifamily and mixed-use developments, shopping centers, healthcare facilities, hotels, restaurants, data centers, and planned communities, the team combines transactional experience with deep knowledge of land use, zoning, redevelopment, environmental, alternative energy, and public financing matters to help clients structure deals efficiently, allocate risk strategically, and navigate New Jersey’s real estate landscape.

Redevelopment & Land Use

The Redevelopment, Land Use & Zoning practice is a cornerstone of the firm’s commitment to shaping New Jersey’s future, with decades of experience advising on traditional development, redevelopment, land use, and zoning matters throughout the state. The team has played a historic role in New Jersey’s redevelopment sector and continues to participate in innovative, high-profile projects, drawing on extensive knowledge of the political, economic, legislative, and regulatory issues that influence development and economic growth. Representing developers, property owners, investors, municipalities, and other public and private entities, the firm brings a balanced and sophisticated perspective to navigating development opportunities while addressing the protection and conservation of open space and New Jersey’s natural resources.

Employment Law

The Employment practice provides proactive, strategic, and results-oriented employment law counsel to private and public sector clients, with a primary focus on representing management in a broad range of state and federal compliance matters and employment litigation. The team advises clients on the full spectrum of employer-employee issues, from establishing legally compliant workplaces and managing day-to-day employment matters to addressing complex and evolving workplace challenges. Combining deep legal knowledge with a practical, business-focused approach, Greenbaum helps clients navigate employment issues effectively, manage risk, and protect their business interests in high-stakes litigation.

Environmental

Greenbaum’s Environmental practice advises clients on the full spectrum of federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations affecting business operations, real estate development, lending, and corporate transactions, with particular depth in New Jersey’s complex and evolving regulatory framework. The team handles contaminated site remediation and brownfields redevelopment, regulatory compliance and permitting, hazardous waste issues, environmental risk assessment and allocation, transaction-related due diligence, ISRA, institutional and engineering controls, environmental disclosures, insolvency-related liabilities, and environmental litigation and administrative proceedings. Representing developers, property and business owners, manufacturers, REITs, financial institutions, investors, landlords, tenants, and public and private companies, Greenbaum provides practical, business-oriented counsel on complex environmental issues arising in development projects, operational matters, and sophisticated commercial transactions.

Healthcare

Greenbaum’s Healthcare practice provides strategic counsel to healthcare providers, organizations, and industry stakeholders on a broad range of regulatory, transactional, litigation, and operational matters. With a deep understanding of New Jersey’s healthcare landscape and evolving regulatory environment, the team advises clients on complex legal and business issues affecting the delivery of healthcare services and the operation of healthcare enterprises.

The practice represents many of New Jersey’s leading healthcare systems, hospitals, and medical facilities, as well as physicians, physician group practices, organized delivery systems (ODSs), clinically integrated networks (CINs), independent practice associations (IPAs), behavioral health organizations, nursing homes, home health agencies, managed care organizations, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, healthcare vendors, management service organizations (MSOs), private equity funds, and other healthcare-related businesses and investors.

Estate Planning, Counseling, Administration & Litigation

Greenbaum offers comprehensive estate planning, counseling, and estate administration services tailored to meet the unique needs of individuals and families across New Jersey and New York. We strive to provide the highest level of personal attention, coupled with extensive experience and professional expertise. Our collaborative approach emphasizes practical guidance that simplifies complex legal issues to best enable and empower our clients to make informed decisions about their future.

Family Law

The firm’s family law team is dedicated to guiding individuals through sensitive and often challenging personal matters, offering the responsive and personalized service of a boutique matrimonial practice backed by the comprehensive support of a full-service business law firm. In this intimate and highly nuanced area of the law, where trust is critical, our attorneys stand among the preeminent practitioners in New Jersey, providing effective and compassionate representation in all areas of domestic relations through negotiation, mediation, litigation and the appellate process.