Ted
Zangari is a Member of Sills Cummis & Gross, a commercial law firm
with New Jersey offices in Newark and Princeton. He is a Chair of the Firm’s
Real Estate Department and serves on the Firm’s Management and Executive
Committees. Mr. Zangari’s law practice
is multipronged. He chairs the Firm’s Redevelopment Law Practice Group,
captaining a team of the Firm’s attorneys on brownfield, transit-oriented,
central business district and waterfront redevelopment projects as well as
adaptive reuse projects on vacant corporate campuses and industrial parks. He
also routinely handles complex business transactions with an emphasis on
commercial leasing, acquisition and financing transactions for owners, asset
managers and tenants of industrial, office and retail properties across the
country. In addition, Mr. Zangari chairs
the Firm’s Public Policy and Governmental Affairs Practice Group, assisting
developers, hospitals, banks, casinos and other regulated industry clients in
the ways that government and business intersect on a broad range of legislative
and regulatory matters. In a ranking of
“politically influential law firms” by politickernj.com, the Firm was ranked
number one among Am Law 200 law firms in New Jersey, and Mr. Zangari was
described as someone who is “well liked by insiders on both sides of the
aisle.”
Mr. Zangari currently serves on the
Executive Committee and Board of Directors of the NJ State Chamber of Commerce. He is also a founding member of the Rutgers
University Center for Real Estate, where he serves on the Center’s Executive
Committee, and is also a member of the Board of Trustees of George Washington
University’s Center for Real Estate and Urban Analysis.
Mr. Zangari has chaired a governor’s
study commission on business attraction and retention incentives, and has
served on another governor’s real estate advisory board. He has also served as the North American
Chair of Government Relations for the International Council of Shopping Centers
and over the last decade, he has led the Smart Growth Economic Development
Coalition comprised of nearly two dozen statewide business and real estate
trade associations. As a result of these
volunteer efforts, Mr. Zangari has been recognized by many organizations,
including the Kislak Real Estate Institute at Monmouth University (Service to
Industry award), NJ-NAIOP (Industry Service award and Advocacy award) and the
New Jersey State Chamber of Commerce (Business Advocate award).
Mr. Zangari has been named one of the
“Top 10 Power Players in the Garden State” by Real Estate New Jersey magazine, and named to ROI-NJ’s “Real Estate Influencers” list and its “Influencers Power”
list. Over the last decade, NJBIZ magazine has included him in its
“Power 100” list of the State’s business leaders and its “Power 75” and “Power
50” lists of New Jersey’s leading real estate professionals. He has also been selected for inclusion in
The Best Lawyers in America, New Jersey Super Lawyers and Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading
Lawyers for Business.