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Jay Samuels

Counsel

New Brunswick, NJ
120 Albany Street Plaza
6th Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
P 732.448.2533 P 732.448.2533 | F 732.846.8877
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Experience

Jay Samuels focuses on financing transactions, loan workouts, and bankruptcy. In addition to financial transactions, Mr. Samuels represents clients in real estate and leasing transactions, as well as in business sale, purchase and general contract transactions.

Mr. Samuels has represented multiple commercial lenders throughout New Jersey with respect to conventional C & I loans and real estate loans, as well as representing a SBA 7(a) lender with respect to its New Jersey lending.

Mr. Samuels has lectured and written on financing issues for the New Jersey Institute of Continuing Legal Education, the New Jersey State Bar Association and the Robert Morris Association. He was a Trustee of the Banking Law Section of the New Jersey State Bar Association for over 15 years, as well as serving as Chair of the Financial Transactions Committee, the Membership Committee and the Program Committee of the Section.

Mr. Samuels represented the prevailing party in the case of New Brunswick Savings Bank v. Markowski, 123 N.J. 402 (1991), the seminal decision of the New Jersey Supreme Court on the existence of constitutional due process rights of judgment holders.

Recognition

  • Nominated to The Best Lawyers in America in the category of Banking and Finance Law (2019-2023), Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law (2024) and Public Finance Law (2021-2022, 2024). In 2024, he was chosen as "Lawyer of the Year" for Public Finance Law.

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Education

  • M.B.A., with honors, Rutgers University, 2000
  • J.D., University at Buffalo Law School, 1978
  • B.A., cum laude, University of Vermont, 1975

Admissions

  • New Jersey
  • United States District Court for the District of New Jersey
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit