June 2, 2025

Practice Group Series – Commercial Leasing

Our lawyers have handled high profile commercial leases, including corporate headquarters and major industrial facilities.

MSW’s lawyers structure and negotiate leases on behalf of landlords and tenants for all kinds of commercial property, including office buildings, industrial and warehouse facilities, shopping centers, restaurants and breweries, cannabis dispensaries, health care facilities, marinas, sports arenas, and other sites throughout the country.

As a full-service real estate practice group, we are experienced in all varieties of leasing arrangements, including large and small office leases, and retail and restaurant leases, subleases, ground leases, sale-leaseback transactions, and build-to-suit leases. We also structure and implement commercial leasing programs for office building and shopping center owners and have experience addressing "green" and “WELL” building issues. Further, utilizing the firm’s extensive incentive advisory experience, the firm’s leasing attorneys regularly advise clients on potential real estate and economic development incentives that may be available to them as a tenant or landlord.

Practice Group Leaders:

Kellen Murphy
Partner
Phone: (973) 705-7420
Email: kmurphy@murphyllp.com

Matthew J. Schiller
Partner
Phone: (973) 705-7431
Email: mschiller@murphyllp.com

Charles J. Wilkes
Partner
Phone: (973) 705-7422
Email: cwilkes@murphyllp.com

Murphy Schiller & Wilkes LLP (MSW) is a boutique law firm servicing the commercial real estate and construction industries. Headquartered in Newark, New Jersey, the firm represents a wide range of clients, including institutional, publicly traded real estate companies, international and regional lenders, national contractors and subcontractors, and family offices. The firm has been ranked as a top law firm by both Chambers & Partners and U.S. News & World Report.