Edward W. Ahart
ewa@spsk.com

Edward W. Ahart is a partner with Schenck, Price, Smith & King’s Business and Real Estate Department, and has chaired both the Department and the Corporate Practice Group. He practices primarily as a transactional attorney, concentrating in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, finance, and general corporate law. Mr. Ahart also is the firm’s Managing Partner and serves as Chair of its Management Committee.

Mr. Ahart has extensive experience in the purchase, sale and financing of businesses and related commercial transactions, including the structuring and restructuring, negotiating and closing of complex asset and stock sales and acquisitions. He has represented numerous financial institutions, both large and small, and has served as counsel to Hooper Holmes, Inc., Basking Ridge Golf Course, Inc., Allied Oil, LLC, Duke Farms Foundation, Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of New Jersey (the “IIABNJ”), Millington Quarry, Inc. and Damon G. Douglas, Inc. in general corporate matters. Mr. Ahart has been listed in “Who’s Who,” and “Who's Who in American Law.” He is a frequent speaker on corporate governance, transactional and financing matters and is an active participant in the Rothman Institute of Entrepreneurial Studies at Fairleigh Dickenson University. He also speaks often at programs sponsored by the IIABNJ on issues of interest to insurance agents, and a considerable percentage of his practice is comprised of the representation of closely held and family-owned businesses, including many insurance agencies.

Mr. Ahart is a member of the Morris County, New Jersey State and American Bar Associations, Business Law Section, and has served on the New Jersey District X Ethics Committee, and the Board of Directors and as a counselor in the Morris Essex Inn of Transactional Counsel.

Active in the community, Mr. Ahart is a member and Secretary of Lafayette College's Board of Trustees and has served as the President of the Lafayette College Alumni Association. He has also served for several years as Chair of the Morris County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and is currently a member of both its Executive Committee and the Morris Business Cabinet. He is President and a member of the Board of Governors of The Morristown Club. He has been the Vice President and a member of the Harkers Hollow Golf and Country Club Board, and is active in various other organizations. He acted as the attorney for Pohatcong Township in Warren County and its Board of Education. He was also Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Warren County ARC. In addition, Mr. Ahart has served as an Elder and President of the Board of Trustees of the Greenwich Presbyterian Church in Stewartsville, and President of the Greenwich Cemetery Association. The Association has a large endowment program, substantial staff, diverse Board of Trustees, and has been engaged in a multimillion dollar planning and development process.

After receiving an undergraduate degree with honors from Lafayette College in 1969, Mr. Ahart attended the Cornell Law School where he was graduated in 1972. Prior to joining Schenck, Price, Smith & King, LLP in 1973, he served as Law Secretary to the Honorable Joseph Halpern, Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Bar Admissions:

• New Jersey (1972)
• New York (1983)