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New York University School of Law
One Logan Square
18th & Cherry Streets, 27th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103-6933
Fax: 215.568.0300
Biography
David Scolnic has extensive experience in a wide variety of real estate and corporate matters, locally, nationally, and internationally. In his real estate practice, David helps clients realize their goals in acquiring, developing, constructing, financing, investing, leasing, and managing large and small projects and portfolios. In addition to representing traditional players in the real estate market—developers, investors, lenders, and brokers—David represents prominent companies that do not consider themselves to be in the real estate business but nonetheless have substantial ongoing real estate needs.
In his corporate practice, David represents clients in significant contracts of numerous types, including the purchase and sale of companies; asset-based, secured, unsecured, and less conventional financing; contracts for the purchase, sale, and transportation of goods, including raw materials and finished products; and a vast array of other business transactions and contracts. He serves as outside general counsel to clients who have come to rely upon his judgment, integrity, and experience for their day-to-day legal needs.
Education
New York University School of Law, New York, New York, 1986, JD
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1983, Master of City Planning
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1982, BA, cum laude
Honors and Awards
- New York University Law Review, Annual Survey of American Law, Articles Editor, 1985 – 1986
Publications
- Immigration Laws, Annual Survey of American Law, Vol. 1, 1985
Representative Cases
- Redevelopment of Tower Bridge in Conshohocken and West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, with approximately 2,000,000 square feet of office and hotel space
- Assisted Trammell Crow Company in negotiating, on behalf of The Bombay Company, Inc., a lease of a regional distribution center of approximately 400,000 square feet in Breinigsville, Pennsylvania. Also assisted The Bombay Furniture Company of Canada Inc. in negotiating a lease of approximately 220,000 square feet for a distribution center in Ontario, Canada
- Financing and subsequent sale of manufacturer of pigments for the construction industry
- Acquisition and redevelopment by United States Cold Storage, Inc., one of the nation’s biggest public refrigerated warehouse companies, of land in the former Bethlehem Steel site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, one of the largest brownfields sites in the country.
- Represented Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA, one of the world’s largest producers of absorbent hygiene products, packaging solutions, and publication papers, in the leasing of a new regional headquarters in Philadelphia
Professional Associations and Memberships
- National Association of Industrial and Office Properties
- Philadelphia VIP Program, 1986 – Present
- Board of Directors, 2000 – 2001
- American Bar Association Section of Real Property, Probate, and Trust Law, 1986 – Present
- Subcommittee on Asset Management, 1997 – 1998
- Subcommittee on Public/Private Partnerships in Real Estate Development, 1995 – 1997
Teaching / Lecturing
- Lawyering Skills Program, Construction Contracts and Leasing, Villanova University School of Law, 1994 – 2000, Adjunct Faculty
Representative Clients
- The Bombay Company, Inc.
- Interstate Land Management Corporation
- Oliver Tyrone Pulver Corporation
- Select Medical Corporation
- Trammell Crow Company
- Svenska Cellulosa Aktiebolaget SCA
- United States Cold Storage, Inc.
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- New Jersey