John E. Ursin

John E. Ursin is Schenck Price’s Managing Partner. He also Chairs the Firm’s Management Committee.

John E. Ursin is a rare corporate attorney, who has expertise in a wide range of legal specialties, including extensive first chair litigation experience. He provides value added, business focused and efficient representation as general counsel to corporations, small business, local government entities and non-profit organizations, including health care and senior living entities, as well as family offices. 

John’s transactional practice includes substantial commercial real estate, development, middle market mergers and acquisitions, and financing.  He has represented some of the largest employers in Northwest New Jersey and has provided land use/redevelopment and financing guidance on some of the largest projects in the area and to client’s interests regionally and nationally.

John leads a deal team that handles a wide range of mergers and acquisitions and financings, including private equity, peer-to-peer and succession transactions.  These transactions range from local sole proprietors to significant corporate assets in New Jersey and nationally.  In recent years alone, John has handled transactions totaling hundreds of millions of dollars.

It is unusual for an attorney with John’s corporate experience and practice to also have experience in litigated matters.  Yet John has been first chair on litigation representing individuals, companies and public entities in cases that involve premises liability, employment practices, director & officer issues, property issues,  bidding and contractual disputes, and education issues.  He has tried cases in these areas to verdicts, both in jury and bench trials.  He continues to have an active insurance litigation practice, which includes defense and coverage.  John represents local and regional banks and other financial institutions in litigation, foreclosure, commercial restructuring and workouts.

This diverse practice allows John to counsel businesses with a unique depth of confidence and conviction.  Few attorneys who represent businesses can counsel their clients on employment, property, insurance and financing issues based upon their own litigation and trial experience.  This experience also allows John to deeply understand risk management issues in transactions that relate to operational or litigation issues.  He also has the advantage of a background in biochemistry, which allows him to be particularly adept at counseling companies in scientific and technology fields.

John is a member of the Firm’s Corporate Practice, Insurance Defense, and Banking and Finance Practice Groups.  He chairs Schenck Price’s Government Law Practice Group, and the Firm's Land Use and Redevelopment Practice Group.

John counsels municipalities, school boards and other public entities and has extensive experience with administrative, governance and legislative aspects of government, including OPMA, OPRA and elections. He advises clients on redevelopment, highlands issues, plan conformance, COAH and water and sewer utilities. He is also involved with contractual disputes, union negotiations, employee discipline, civil service and PERC issues.

John’s clients include multiple family offices, private equity entities, real estate developers, health care and senior living facilities, manufacturers, material suppliers, sports-related businesses, insurance companies, banks and government entities.

John is a member of Schenck Price's Management Committee.  


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