Michele Gironta Tarantino

Michele G. Tarantino is chair of Flaster Greenberg’s Environmental and Real Estate Law Departments and a member of the firm's Board of Directors. She concentrates her practice on sophisticated commercial real estate leasing, financing and acquisition matters and has extensive experience in commercial real estate purchase and sale, financing, construction, property management, development and leasing matters throughout New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. As an integral part of her practice, she regularly provides legal counsel to business owners in transactions ranging from the sale of small family-owned businesses to the acquisition and financing of a national business franchises. Her clients include property owners, institutional lenders, closely held businesses and individual investors, to whom she brings her excellent negotiating and project management skills and vast legal knowledge.

Expanding on her in-depth knowledge of the development process, Ms. Tarantino also represents major home builders and commercial property developers in connection with the drafting and negotiating of ground leases, developer’s agreements, rights of way and easement agreements, conservation easements, restrictive covenants, remediation access agreements, property management agreements and condominium and homeowners association documents.

Representative Matters

• Environmental cleanup and sale of property owned by a Fortune 500 company
• Preparation and negotiation of solar leases and easement agreements
• Drafted and negotiated ground leases, option agreements, purchase agreements, construction agreements and related acquisition documents for major home builders and commercial property developers
• Represented private clients and commercial lenders in development, acquisition and construction loan financing matters
• Assessed viability of real estate properties for development
• Represented a supplier of marketing, promotional and organizational products in the sale of its assets to a larger marketing company in a strategic acquisition, including the continued employment of the principal.
• Assisted client in obtaining crossed-collateralized loans to acquire business and real estate assets. Also, part of this transaction was obtaining approval from the town’s Industrial Development Agency for the project, significantly reducing tax obligations.