About Us
The Firm
Sytner Law offers a full range of legal services across acquisitions and dispositions, financing, leasing, joint ventures, and commercial development. We aim to structure transactions with purpose. Clients turn to the Sytner Law Firm for thoughtful, efficient, and business-minded legal solutions that align with their investment goals—and for the personalized service that only a boutique practice can provide.
At Sytner Law, we apply practical and strategic insight to structure, document, and close a wide variety of real estate projects. Our client portfolio spans asset classes—from traditional office and retail to mixed-use developments, multifamily housing, industrial sites, to restaurant businesses. Whether advising on the sale of a single property or forming a long-term partnership, we take a client-centric approach—tailoring legal strategy to the client’s business model and investment objectives.
Susan Sytner, Esq.
Susan is an experienced transactional attorney focusing her practice on real-estate transactions, ventures, and development. Using a client-centric approach, Susan counsels her clients to through all stages of commercial transactions – including, real estate acquisitions, dispositions, leases, joint ventures, financings, and development; business acquisitions, dispositions, transactions, and financing; and corporate formation and governance.
Outside of work, Susan is a mother of four adult children, an avid baker of cheesecakes and sourdough breads, and enjoys traveling. She is a passionate advocate in the area of mental health and provides support to parents of children struggling with mental illness.
Education:
- J.D., Charleston School of Law
- Executive Editorial Board Member Federal Courts Law Review
- Member and Vice Chair Honor Council
- B.A., Ramapo College of New Jersey; cum laude
Admissions:
- New Jersey
- New York
- South Carolina
Notable Transactions
- $20,000,000.00 portfolio acquisition with financing of mixed-use and multi-family properties in Montclair, New Jersey.
- $10,500,000.00 portfolio acquisition of multi-family properties in Paterson, New Jersey.
- $22,500,000.00 multi-family urban renewal property acquisition and financing, urban renewal entity formation and transfer of PILOT Agreement in Bergenfield, New Jersey.
- $22,000,000.00 multi-family urban renewal property acquisition and financing, urban renewal entity formation and transfer of PILOT Agreement in Bound Brook, New Jersey
- $10,800,000.00 multi-family urban renewal property acquisition and financing, urban renewal entity formation and transfer of PILOT Agreement in Bound Brook, New Jersey.
- $14,250,000.00 multi-family disposition and 1031 exchange in Pompton Plains, New Jersey.
- $21,000,000.00 commercial refinance (mortgage loan + private equity/joint venture) of mixed-use property in Passaic, New Jersey.
- $11,500,000.00 commercial refinance of multi-family property in Passaic, New Jersey.
- $11,275,000.00 commercial refinance of multi-family property in Passaic, New Jersey.