Robert E. Schiappacasse is Co-Chair of the Sills Cummis & Gross Corporate Department and a member of the Firm’s Management Committee. He primarily represents middle market companies in a broad range of industries, including construction, transportation, real estate development, solid waste and recycling, and cannabis. He advises construction aggregates, asphalt, and paving companies in New Jersey and the surrounding region on mergers and acquisitions, succession-driven sales, financing, and regulatory matters. His recent construction materials work includes the $1.2 billion sale of Stavola Companies to Arcosa, Inc. and the sale of Asphalt Paving Systems to Pavement Preservation Group.
He has experience in a broad range of business and commercial legal matters, with a focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate structure and governance, state and federal regulatory filings, asset-based and mortgage-secured financings, and commercial real estate.
In addition to his prior experience within the corporate departments of large national law firms, Mr. Schiappacasse also served as in-house counsel for a mergers and acquisitions investment banking firm. In that role, he was responsible for a variety of transactions and regulatory matters in conjunction with complex roll-up acquisitions by public companies in the solid waste, trucking, and heating oil industries. He has drawn on that experience in representing owners of construction materials businesses in sales to public companies and private equity-backed buyers.
As Co-Chair of the Firm’s Cannabis Industry Practice Group, he counsels clients throughout the country, including in the states of Nevada, Arizona, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, on cannabis industry matters ranging from acquisitions to corporate structuring to regulatory compliance. Mr. Schiappacasse is also a frequent author and presenter on issues related to the cannabis industry.