JAY A. JAFFE

environmental & brownfields

director

jjaffe@farerlaw.com

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Jay A. Jaffe is a director in the firm and a member of our Environmental & Brownfields practice group.

Since joining the firm in 1989, Jay has been involved in counseling clients in assessing, avoiding and confronting liability under federal and state environmental laws, as well as transaction-triggered regulatory proceedings.

Jay has gained extensive experience in guiding our clients through complex projects involving acquisition, cleanup and redevelopment of brownfields sites. He is deeply experienced in overseeing and coordinating environmental due diligence in portfolio real estate transactions involving multiple properties in New Jersey and around the country.

Jay has conducted numerous environmental due diligence investigations involving multi-hundred million dollar transactions, the negotiation of prospective purchaser agreements with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and N.J. DEP, and is experienced in advising clients on potential cost recovery options.

He is also well practiced in guiding clients through environmental submissions under New Jersey’s Industrial Site Recovery Act (“ISRA’).

Jay has presented ISRA lectures before the New Jersey Commercial Builders Council and on behalf of the Union County Chamber of Commerce. He lectured at the New Jersey State Bar Association’s 2003 Business Law Symposium, “The Current State of Environmental Law,” and before the New Jersey Water Environment Association in 2000 on the subject “Legal and Economic Realities of Natural Resource Damage Assessments.” He is the author of “The Industrial Site Recovery Act, the New ECRA Reform Law,” 1993, and “CERCLA Amendment Creates New Exemptions and Defenses” (New Jersey Law Journal, February 25, 2002) and co-authored the chapter on environmental issues in the treatise entitled “Commercial Real Estate Transactions in New Jersey” (New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education, 2003).

He is a member of the New Jersey State Bar Association (also serving as a member of its Environmental Law, Corporate and Business Law and Real Property, Probate and Trust Sections) and the American Bar Association.

Jay graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1985 and from Georgetown University Law Center in 1988. He was admitted to the New Jersey bar in 1989.

His interests include history, music, religion, politics and current events.

Jay has been named a New Jersey “Super Lawyer.”