Martin (Marty) Kafafian is Beattie Padovano's Co-Managing Member and Chair of the firm’s Commercial Real Estate & Leasing group. His practice focuses on commercial real estate, banking and corporate law nationally.
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Marty counts among his clients Fortune 500 companies, national and regional retailers, real estate developers, supermarkets and department stores. He has provided counsel in a broad spectrum of matters that include financing, leasing, subleasing, sale-leasebacks, acquisition and disposition of properties and the structuring and implementation of complex real estate transactions. In addition, he has been involved with the development of major real estate projects and the acquisition and disposition of real estate properties and portfolios.
Marty is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC). He has conducted a workshop and led roundtables at ICSC's law conferences. He is a Trustee for the HackensackUMC Foundation. He is also a Trustee for the Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey (“CIANJ”) and Co-Chair for their Real Property Roundtable Forum. He also previously served as Counsel, Chairman and Vice Chairman to CIANJ and as President of the Greater Montvale Business Association.
Marty joined Beattie Padovano in 1983. He was elected to the partnership in 1986 and served as Managing Member from 2001 through 2023. His awards and honors for his civic accomplishments include the CIANJ Chairman's Outstanding Leadership Award in 2009 and the Good Scout Award from the Northern New Jersey Council for the Boy Scouts of America in 2005.
Highly regarded for the quality of his legal work as well as his ethics, Marty has an AV Preeminent rating from Martindale-Hubbell.
Representative Matters
- Nationwide representation of a global luxury retailer in mall, warehouse and shopping center leasing.
- Representation of an automotive manufacturer in a leasing transaction with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
- Representation of a private real estate investment firm in the acquisition of real estate from a municipality and the redevelopment of luxury multifamily rentals and a warehouse site.
- Representation of a major regional supermarket chain in various leasing and real-estate related matters.
- Representation of the purchaser in the sale/leaseback of cold-storage warehouse.
- Representation of a retailer in negotiating modifications of and releases to various Reciprocal Easement Agreements.
- Representation of a retailer in subleasing to hospitals, supermarkets, online-retailer warehouse and distribution center.
- Representation of the seller in a sale/leaseback transactions involving multiple properties.
- Representation of developers in financing various commercial projects.
- Commercial Real Estate
- Corporate
- Banking Law
- University of Illinois Chicago School of Law, J.D. (1976)
with distinction - New Jersey Institute of Technology, B.S.I.E. (1972)
- New Jersey, 1976
- New York, 1982
- United States District Court, District of New Jersey, 1976
- United States Supreme Court, 1983
- U.S. Tax Court, 1989
- Court of Appeals for District of Columbia, 1990
- New Jersey State Bar Association
- Bergen County Bar Association
- International Council of Shopping Centers, Member
- Commerce and Industry Association of New Jersey, Member
- Hackensack University Medical Center Foundation, Trustee
