Peter J. Carton

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Biography

Mr. Carton concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate development, and public finance. He has represented such clients as RWJ Barnabas Health, JP Morgan Chase Bank, N.A., F. Hoffmann-La Roche, McDonald’s, Rhone Poulenc (Rhodia), and Rendina (a healthcare R.E. Development firm, and Claremont Properties in matters ranging from individual business and industrial uses to large-scale commercial, health care, office/flex space developments and redevelopments. Mr. Carton also has extensive experience involving governmental entities, serving as Mayor of the Township of Middletown (Monmouth County’s largest municipality) and its General Counsel for six years.

In addition, Mr. Carton started the firm’s Public Finance Practice in 1981. The firm regularly serves as bond or underwriters counsel to issuers or investment bankers in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, including the State of New Jersey, New Jersey Health Care Facilities Financing Authority, Monmouth, Somerset and Passaic Counties, Monmouth County Improvement Authority, and numerous county improvement authorities, municipal sewer and water and pollution control authorities, and school boards. Issues have ranged from competitive to negotiated; general obligation to revenue; and appropriation backed and refundings secured by insurance letters of credit or County guarantees.