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Steven Mairella is a member of the law firm of McManimon & Scotland, L.L.C. Mr. Mairella specializes in real property matters, with a particular emphasis on zoning, land use, and development and redevelopment. Mr. Mairella advises both private and governmental entities on procedural and substantive requirements of land use and redevelopment statutes. He has obtained timely and cost-efficient land use approvals for both private and public clients, including subdivision and site plan approvals and all types of variances, in a variety of settings. He has extensive experience structuring and managing complex transactions, including scoping and directing due diligence efforts; document negotiation, preparation, and review; and organizing and conducting closings, often on an urgent and expedited basis. He has successfully resolved a number of title-related questions and issues. He has counseled state and local governmental entities on land use-related legislative matters, and has drafted or participated in the drafting of complex land use statutes, ordinances, resolutions, and redevelopment plans. He also has extensive experience in conceptualizing, negotiating, and drafting complex redevelopment agreements involving “public-private partnerships”. He is adept at formulating legal strategies to avoid litigation, and at formulating and drafting winning legal arguments when litigation occurs. Prior to joining McManimon & Scotland, Mr. Mairella was Vice President & General Counsel to Pinnacle Communities, Ltd., a New Jersey-based developer and builder. In that capacity he was responsible for, among many other things, orchestrating and negotiating a major redevelopment project. Before joining Pinnacle he served for two years as the attorney for the Zoning Board of Adjustment for the Township of Nutley, Essex County, New Jersey. Mr. Mairella also spent eleven years as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Sterling Forest Corporation in Tuxedo, New York, where he managed the legal and regulatory affairs of that land development company and its utilities subsidiaries. At Sterling Forest he was heavily involved in land use strategy and planning, in managing complex approvals processes and environmental impact analyses, in managing a large eminent domain litigation, and in negotiating and closing a major public acquisition of the company’s land holdings. Before he joined Sterling Forest Mr. Mairella was an associate in the litigation department of White & Case (and Paskus, Gordon & Mandel, prior to that firm’s merger with White & Case) in New York City, with a heavy emphasis on real estate development-related matters. Mr. Mairella graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1979 with an A.B. in International Relations. He received his J.D. and graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1983. Education
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