Connell Foley profile of John D. Cromie

John D. Cromie

Partner, Roseland Office

85 Livingston Avenue

Roseland, New Jersey 07068

Phone: (973) 535-0500

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John D. Cromie is a partner at Connell Foley and concentrates his practice on business and commercial law issues, including corporate law and transactions, real estate law, and banking law and finance. He serves as the Chair of Connell Foley’s Corporate Law and Transactions Practice Group. Mr. Cromie counsels a wide variety of clients, ranging from Fortune 500 public companies to privately owned mid-cap enterprises and start-up ventures.

Mr. Cromie is a member of the USLAW Network, Inc. and currently serves as Vice-Chair of that organization’s Transactional Practice Group. In addition, he is a member of the American Bar Association and serves on its Real Property and Probate Loan Practices and Lender Liability Committee.

From 1991 until 1997, Mr. Cromie served as Adjunct Law Professor of Legal Writing and Research at Seton Hall University.

In addition to Mr. Cromie’s legal work, he recently completed three three-year terms as an elected Councilman on the Borough Council for the Borough of Allendale in Bergen County, New Jersey. During his time in office, he oversaw the construction of a $3.2 million public safety complex.

Mr. Cromie has spent his entire professional career with Connell Foley. He joined the firm in 1988 as an associate and became a partner on January 1, 1996.

Following law school, Mr. Cromie completed a judicial clerkship with the Honorable Daniel J. O’Hern (Retired), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey. Mr. Cromie was a Member and later the Managing Editor of the Seton Hall Law Review. He is the author of States May Selectively Authorize Regional Bank Holding Company Acquisitions, which appeared at 17 Seton Hall Law Review 106 (1987).

Practice Areas:

Corporate Law and Transactions

Real Estate Law and Land Use

Banking Law and Finance

Construction Law

Admitted to Practice:

State of New Jersey

United States District Court for the District of New Jersey

Education:

University of Notre Dame (B.A., 1984)

Seton Hall University (J.D., cum laude, 1987)

Affiliations:

American Bar Association

New Jersey State Bar Association

Essex County Bar Association

USLAW Network

News:

Twelve Connell Foley Partners Named to 2011 Best Lawyers^® Directory (August 2010)

Cromie, Humphreys and Villani Represent Hexion Specialty Chemicals in Connection with

$1 Billion Note Offering (May 2010)

LEED Certification Advised on by Cromie and Rhatican Highlighted in New Jersey & Company (May 2010)

Cromie and Villani Represent Physicians in Connection with Opening of Ambulatory Surgery Center (March 2010)

Cromie and Villani Represent Seton Hall in $7,955,000 Bond Issuance and Tax Exempt Equipment Financing (December 2009)

Cromie, Fleder, Smith and Shadiak Present at AGC’s Legal Issues Seminar (June 2009)

Cromie and Villani Represent Seton Hall University in $74,100,000.00 Bond Refinancing (April 2009)

Cromie Featured in NJBIZ Article on Transactional Lawyers and Current Economic Turbulence (October 2008)

Connell Foley Closes Sale of Assets of Lumber 1 and Lumber Barn, Inc. To Kuiken Brothers Company, Inc. (August 2008)

Cromie and Randall Named to Leadership Posts at USLAW Network (October 2007)

Publications

•	Co-author, "Officers Owe Corporations the Same Fiduciary Duties That Directors Owe" published in the New Jersey Law Journal (June 2010)
•	Co-author, "Employees Now Protected Against Retaliation For Merely Requesting FMLA Leave" published in New Jersey Constructor magazine, Issue 2 (2010)
•	Co-author, "Responsible Officer Doctrine: California Appellate Case Demonstrates How a Corporate Officer Can Become Personally Liable" published in NJSBA Business Law Section Newsletter, Vol. 33, No. 2. (January 2010)
•	Co-author, "Data Breaches Responsibilities" published in New Jersey Business magazine (December 2009)
•	Co-author, "Data Breaches: Will You Be Protected? Six Essential Questions to Ask Your Target Company" published in USLAW magazine (Fall/Winter 2009)
•	Co-author, "Ensuring Success" published in Construction Today (September 2009)
•	Co-author, "M&A Advice in Troubled Times" published in New Jersey Business magazine (April 2009)
•	Author, "Mergers, Acquisitions, Market Turbulence and the Credit Crunch" published in USLAW magazine (Fall/Winter 2008 )
•	Co-author, "New Consequences for Fraudulent Dealings with the State of New Jersey" published in New Jersey Constructor magazine (October 2008)
•	Co-author, “Contractors Beware: Recent Regulatory Enactments Require Additional Compliance” published in New Jersey Constructor (2008)
•	Co-author, "Courts Press Expansive View of Arbitration Clauses" published in the New Jersey Law Journal (2007)
•	Co-author, "State Contractors Prohibited From Making Campaign Contribution" published in New Jersey Constructor (2005)
•	Co-author, "Steel Price Escalation Threatens NJ Contractors - A Proposed Two-Part Solution" published in New Jersey Constructor (2004)
•	Co-author, "Shifting Risk for Unknown Subsurface Site Conditions in State and Federal Projects" published in New Jersey Constructor (2004)
•	Co-author, "Set-Aside Act Amended to Remove State Contract Set-Asides for Minority Owned and Female Owned Business" published in New Jersey Constructor (2003)
•	Co-author, "Letters of Credit Offer Landlords Protection Against Tenant Bankruptcies" published in The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel (2002)
•	Co-author, "Secured Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act" published by the American Bar Association (2001)
•	Co-author, "Court Stakes a Middle Ground On Free Speech in Shopping Malls" published in New Jersey Law Journal (2000)

Representative Experience

•	Preliminary and final site plan approval for approximately 40,000 sq. ft. retail site location located on 6.7 acres of prime commercial real estate at the corner of Eagle Rock Avenue and Eisenhower Parkway in Roseland, New Jersey;
•	Preliminary and final subdivision and site plan approval to construct a 412 unit residential community situated on 30 acres in Piscataway, New Jersey;
•	Closing of title to and acquisition of preliminary and final site plan and subdivision approval with respect to a 20 acre tract in Edison, New Jersey;
•	Preliminary and final subdivision and site plan approval and acquisition of seven acre tract in Springfield, New Jersey on Victory Road;
•	Application authorizing construction of a 100,000 sq. ft. self-storage facility;
•	Sale of 100+ acres of commercial real estate in South Brunswick, New Jersey;
•	Negotiation of several commercial leases involving tenant space in excess of 100,000 sq. ft. of prime commercial office space in the aggregate;
•	Approximately 35,000 square foot retail project located on Eisenhower Parkway in Roseland, New Jersey; project involved substantial corporate restructuring, preliminary and final site plan approval, financings, and preparation and negotiation of thirteen retail leases; representation ultimately involved the sale of the completed property to a third party and included negotiation of the contract and related transactional work.