Mark A. Kirsch

Mark is a Co-Chair of the firm’s Real Estate and Business & Corporate Groups. Mark handles commercial real estate transactions of all kinds, advising owners, investors, developers, purchasers, landlords, tenants, and municipalities, on a variety of real estate matters, including acquisition, financing, leasing, and disposition. His experience runs to all commercial real estate property types, including retail, hospitality, office, industrial, mixed-use, and multi-family.

Mark also regularly represents institutional and private lenders, as well as borrowers, in commercial lending transactions, including real estate-secured loans and asset-based lending. He has many years of experience representing developers of commercial, residential, and mixed-use common interest communities, where, working in close proximity with surveyors and engineers, he prepares the declaration, public offering statement, and other formation documents, and drafts the myriad of rules, covenants and restrictions, and policies, that are needed to ensure that the communities both serve the requirements of his clients and function effectively and efficiently.

Mark prides himself on effectively managing complicated transactions, involving multiple parties, with many moving parts, and on approaching each project with the attention to detail, and thoroughness, that is required.  He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Section of the Connecticut Bar Association and has been recognized as a leading lawyer in Connecticut in the area of Real Estate Law in the 2010-2021 editions of Chambers USA, where he has attracted praise as "a real talent” who is “extremely efficient and very responsive” in his approach.

Education

Boston University School of Law, J.D., 1985

State University of New York, Albany, B.S., magna cum laude, 1982

Admissions

• Connecticut
• New York
• U.S. District Court District of Connecticut

Chambers USA^®, Real Estate Law, 2010-2024

Best Lawyers in America^®, Real Estate Law, 2013-2025

Best Lawyers in America^®, Community Associations, 2017-2025

Connecticut Super Lawyers^®, Real Estate, 2013-2024

Martindale-Hubbell^®, AV Peer Review Rated

Moffly Media's "Top Lawyers in Fairfield County", Real Estate, 2021, 2023-2024 

News

Connecticut Bar Association
    •  Real Property Section, Executive Committee

 New York Bar Association

Greater Bridgeport Bar Association
    •  Real Estate Committee

 Community Associations Institute, Connecticut Chapter

 Real Estate Finance Association of Connecticut, Fairfield/Westchester Chapter

Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County, Inc., Board of Directors and Executive Committee

Jewish Community Foundation, Inc., Board of Directors

Bridgeport Regional Business Council, Past Board of Directors

Leadership Greater Bridgeport, Past Chair Board of Directors

Congregation B'nai Israel, Past President

Jewish Center for Community Services, Inc., Past Board of Directors and Past Chair, Allocations Committee