Nicholas Racioppi, Jr., a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee, is Chair of the Real Estate Group. He has considerable commercial real estate experience, particularly in the acquisition, leasing, zoning and planning, and development and sale of commercial and industrial properties.

Nick also represents lenders in all types of real estate financings and has experience in the formation and structuring of real estate partnerships and joint ventures.

In 2019, Nick was named a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL). ACREL’s distinguished lawyers are elected to fellowships based on their outstanding legal ability, experience, and high standards of professional and ethical conduct in the practice of real estate law. He is a frequent speaker and author on commercial real estate topics.

Nick is a member of Pillar Care Continuum’s Board of Trustees, and serves on Pillar’s Steps to Independence Celebration Committee and its Real Estate Committee.  He was also involved with the Gala Committee of Daytop of New Jersey, a substance abuse treatment program, for 10 ten years.

He serves as pro-bono counsel to the Housing Partnership, which provides resources to prospective homebuyers. He advises the organization on corporate governance, guiding them as to their role in administering certain affordable housing programs, and serves as their counsel in connection with no-interest loans they provide to certain clients.

Nick is a member of the Legal Action Committee of NAIOP (the National Association of Industrial and Office Parks), the New Jersey State Bar Association, and the American Bar Association.

Real Estate Transactions

Zoning and Planning

Real Estate Finance

Loan Workouts and Foreclosures

New Jersey

New York

United States District Court, District of New Jersey

New York University School of Law, J.D., 1988

Rutgers University, B.A., with high honors, 1985, Phi Beta Kappa

Fellow, American College of Real Estate Lawyers

Member, Legal Action Committee of NAIOP

Member, Pillar Care Continuum Board of Trustees

Since 2016, Nick has been ranked in Band One by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business for Real Estate Law.  He has been included in Chambers USA since 2005.

In 2024, Nick was named a Real Estate Influencer by ROI-NJ in its Influencers: Real Estate list, which acknowledged the most influential professionals in the New Jersey real estate sector, from the state’s biggest developers to its most important service providers, and from key public officials to top-notch brokers. ROI-NJ recognized Nick’s considerable commercial real estate experience, particularly in the acquisition, leasing, zoning and planning and development and sale of commercial and industrial properties. It also commended his expertise in representing clients across various aspects of commercial real estate transactions and development projects.

Nick has been included in The Best Lawyers in America®, a peer review of U.S. lawyers, in the fields of Real Estate and Real Estate Litigation since 2007. Nick received the Best Lawyers® “Lawyer of the Year” award in 2019 and 2024 for Real Estate Litigation in Newark; this is an honor given to a single attorney in each practice area in each region, each year.

Thomson Reuters has included him on New Jersey’s “Super Lawyers” list for Real Estate law since 2006. In addition, Nick has been recognized on the “Super Lawyers Top 100” list in 2020 and 2021.

Nick was included on the BTI Client Service A-Team List in 2015 for providing “the absolute best levels of client service,” as determined by BTI Consulting Group, following in-depth interviews with legal decision-makers at the world’s leading organizations.

The Real Estate Group has earned the “Dealmakers of the Year” award by the New Jersey Law Journal in both 2022 and 2018.

The Real Estate Group has consistently been ranked highly by Chambers USA since 2004.

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