Ted Zangari is a member of Sills Cummis & Gross, a commercial law firm with New Jersey offices in Newark and Princeton. He serves on the firm’s management and executive committees.

Ted’s law practice is multipronged. He routinely handles complex commercial leasing, acquisition and financing transactions for owners, lenders and tenants of distribution facilities, office buildings and shopping centers across the country.

He also co-chairs the firm’s Redevelopment Law practice group, captaining a team of Sills Cummis attorneys on large-scale mixed use projects including land assemblage, redeveloper designations and agreements, tax increment financing and other public incentives, environmental remediation, commercial condominiumization, and construction contracts.

In addition, Ted is a registered state lobbyist and chairs the firm’s Public Policy and Governmental Affairs practice group, assisting clients in the ways that government and business intersect on a broad range of legislative and regulatory matters. In a recent politickernj.com ranking of “politically influential law firms,” the firm was ranked number one among National Law Journal 250 law firms in New Jersey, and Ted was described as someone who is “well liked by insiders on both sides of the aisle.”

Ted was one of only two attorneys recently identified in Real Estate New Jersey magazine’s “Power Players – The Next Generation,” and has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America, New Jersey Super Lawyers and Chambers USA Guide to America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. He received his law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and his undergraduate degree, with special honors, from George Washington University.

Ted currently serves as Eastern Division Government Relations Chair for the International Council of Shopping Centers. He is also active on the legislative affairs committee of NJ-NAIOP. In the aftermath of then-Governor McGreevey’s decision to eliminate funding for the BEIP business incentive program, Ted was appointed to co-chair with the then-Commerce Secretary a study commission on business attraction and expansion incentives. More recently, he was appointed by Governor Corzine to the newly-formed state Real Estate Advisory Board.

In September 2007 – one month before the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached its all-time high – Ted convened the founding meeting of the Smart Growth Economic Development Coalition to develop a “stimulus package” of legislation addressing what Ted described as the “twin crises” of a near-term demand problem caused by the alarming out-migration of jobs and residents as well as a longer-term supply problem of housing future residents and businesses in the wake of New Jersey becoming the first fully built-out state in the nation. Nearly two years later, the Coalition, which includes virtually every statewide real estate and business trade association, has seen its Permit Extension Act and Licensed Site Professionals legislation become law and is actively lobbying for passage of the 10 remaining bills in its stimulus package.