Alex S. Weiner

Alex is a partner in the firm’s Real Estate & Transactional, Business and Security Alarm groups, focusing his practice on the representation of buyers, sellers, borrowers, lenders and other parties in their commercial real estate and other general business transactions.  Alex’s experience includes a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, including the purchase, sale, debt and equity financing, development, leasing and operations/management of medical office facilities, hotels, multifamily projects, student housing complexes, shopping centers, data/telecom centers, office buildings and flex properties, among others.  Alex’s general corporate practice includes buying and selling of businesses; entity formation, structuring and dissolution; loan financing; partner buyouts and other interest transfer transactions; private placements, securities offerings and subscription/investment documents (including related private equity / capital raises); business licensing agreements; confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements, and other start-up and entrepreneurial consulting.  Within the firm’s security alarm group, Alex handles transactions involving the purchase and sale of security alarm companies/assets, financing, interest transfers and other general corporate matters.

Born and raised in the Philadelphia area, Alex is an alumnus of William Penn Charter School.  He graduated with honors from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in Business Administration, having completed an international business program at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain.  Alex went on to graduate from Temple Law School as a member of the Moot Court Honor Society, a Teaching Assistant for the Legal Research & Writing program and a published Editor of Temple Law Review. He received honors including the J. Howard Reber Memorial Award for Excellence in Writing, Best Paper distinction for Legal Research & Writing, Dean’s List, Vice President of the Jewish Law Students Association, and a Fellow of the Rubin Public Interest Law Honor Society.

Prior to joining the firm, Alex held internships with the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas and a regional commercial real estate brokerage firm.  Outside of work, Alex’s interests include golf and basketball with friends he has had since childhood, sitting on the beach or playing tennis with his wife, Pocono getaways, and chasing around his active kids.

Publications

Net Equity Only Comes with Net Equality: An Exploration of an Alternative Remedy for Victims of Ponzi Schemes. Temple Law Review, vol. 84, no. 2, Winter 2012.