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Philip F. McGovern, Jr. is the Managing Partner
of Connell Foley’s Jersey City, New
Jersey office where he and other
members of the firm focus primarily
on 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 a mixed
use residential/commercial
development in Charlestown,
Massachusetts, Alexandria, Virginia
and Waco, Texas during the
market-depressed 1990’s.
More recently, Mr. McGovern has
represented the Shell Oil Company in
the negotiation and disposition of
over 350 service stations throughout
the tri-state area. He has also
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 and
outside real estate counsel to the
New Jersey Natural Gas Company. 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 District Ethics
Committee and a Member of the Essex
County, Hudson County, New Jersey
State (General Practice Section) and
American (Sections on Real Property,
Probate and Trust Law, and Business
Law) Bar Associations.
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). |
