Michael McBride
Managing Partner and Chairman, Connell Foley LLP
Michael X. McBride is the Managing Partner of Connell Foley LLP and maintains an extensive practice representing owners, developers, contractors and vendors in all aspects of the real estate development and construction business.
Mr. McBride’s construction projects include the resolution of various disputes by way of negotiation, trial or arbitration on casino projects in Atlantic City; office buildings in Newark and Chicago; power plants in India and China; a $250 million polypropylene plant in Linden, NJ; Dow Jones' headquarters in Princeton, NJ; large residential and redevelopment projects along the Hudson River and in Queens and Brooklyn for Toll Brothers; and a large shopping center development in the Rockefeller Economic Trade Zone in Mount Olive, NJ. Mr. McBride recently resolved a complicated dispute for Foster Wheeler regarding a termination for convenience on a large power plant project in Louisiana and recently represented a family in connection with the sale of 37 buildings in Clark, NJ to one of New York City’s largest developers.
Mr. McBride represents a private equity fund which purchases, develops, leases and sells large industrial tracts in the Northeast, Southeast and Midwest. In addition, Mr. McBride successfully negotiated the merger of McBride Enterprises, Hudson Bay, a private real estate fund capitalized by Crescent Real Estate Equities (a REIT trading on the NYSE) and Penn Square Properties, Inc. into an entity called Keystone Property Trust, a REIT trading on the NYSE which was sold to Prologis.
Mr. McBride frequently lectures on construction and real estate matters before business groups and industry associations. He has published articles in Construction Executive, New Jersey Business, and Commerce & Industry Magazines.