Profile:

Kenneth D. Rubin is the founder of Rubin, Ehrlich, Buckley & Przekop, PC.  He represents a diverse range of clients, including large and small financial institutions, servicers of commercial loans, national title insurance companies, institutions engaged in purchasing and exercising their rights under nonperforming loans, real estate developers, and companies engaged in the production of chemicals and gaseous products. His representation of financial institutions, servicers, insurance companies and developers has involved a broad range of property types and locations. He has advised clients in numerous issues related to loan originations, loan structuring, real estate mortgage investment conduits and commercial mortgage backed securities (“CMBS”). He has also advised numerous clients on loan modifications, loan assumptions, workouts and exercising a creditor’s rights under loan documents. In 1991, Mr. Rubin was appointed as Counsel to the Board of Chosen Freeholders of Mercer County, which serves as the County’s governing body. In 1996, Mr. Rubin was appointed as counsel to the Mercer County Planning Board. Governor Whitman appointed Mr. Rubin to a Commission to study the New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance. 
 

Representative Matters:

Prior to the recent credit crisis, Mr. Rubin represented clients closing more than 4 billion dollars of commercial loan originations annually. Mr. Rubin has handled more than a 1,000 CMBS loan originations and is a frequent lecturer in the area of complex real estate transactions. He has handled every type of commercial real estate loan from a small single tenant building to a $100,000,000.00 loan involving fourteen properties in eight different states. He is familiar with all types of loan structures including A/B Notes, IDA Financing, Construction Loans and Mezzanine Financing.
 

Practice Areas:

Commercial Lending, CMBS, Structured Finance and Securitization
Commercial Real Estate
Environmental Law
Foreclosure and Creditor’s Rights
Land Use, Real Estate Development and Zoning 
 

Bar Admissions:

New Jersey, 1985
New York, 1986
Pennsylvania, 2008 
 

Education:

Brooklyn Law School, 1985, J.D.
Muhlenberg College, 1982, A.B. 
 

Prior Employment Positions:

Berger & Bornstein, 1985 - 1987
Cohen, Shapiro, Polisher, Shierman & Cohen, 1987 - 1990
 

Professional Associations and Memberships:

Member of the New Jersey State Study Commission
Departments of Banking and Insurance, 2001-2005
Attorney for Mercer County Board of Freeholders, 1992-1996
Attorney for Mercer County Planning Board, 1996-2002
Trustee and Vice-President, Mercer County Community College Board of Trustees, 1998-2003
Member of Governor’s Council on the Prevention of Mental Retardation and Development Disabilities, 1990-1995
Member, Mercer County Special Services School District, 2003-2006
Member, Upper Makefield Township Planning Commission, 2010-Present
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