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Philip F. McGovern is a member of
Connell Foley’s Executive and
Management Committees and is the
Managing Partner of Connell Foley’s
Jersey City, New Jersey office where
he focuses primarily on real estate
and corporate transactions, real
estate development, land use,
complex commercial financing and
commercial leasing. During the
course of his career, he has
represented the United Parcel
Company in connection with the
acquisition and development of its
worldwide communications facility in
Mahwah, New Jersey, Merrill Lynch &
Co., in the restructuring of mixed
use residential/commercial
developments in Charlestown,
Massachusetts, Alexandria, Virginia
and Waco, Texas during the
market-depressed 1990’s.
Mr. McGovern has also represented
the Shell Oil Company in the
negotiation and disposition of over
350 service stations throughout the
tri-state area. He has participated
in New Jersey State and other
municipal financings totaling more
than several billion dollars in
value and has negotiated leases on
behalf of landlords and tenants for
commercial structures in excess of
3,000,000 square feet.
Mr. McGovern currently serves as
national real estate counsel to
Telcordia Technologies, outside real
estate counsel to New
Jersey Natural Gas Company and
general corporate counsel to
numerous mid-cap companies in New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Prior to joining Connell Foley, Mr.
McGovern served as Law Secretary to
Honorable Alfred M. Wolin, U.S.
District Court, District of New
Jersey, during the 1984-1985 term.
He is the past Secretary to the
Supreme Court of New Jersey
Ethics Committee. Additionally, Mr.
McGovern is a member of the Board of
Trustees for St. Peter’s Preparatory
High School, Jersey City, New Jersey
(2004 to present) and Chairman of
the Township of Nutley Planning
Board (1998 to present). |
