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Robert W. Keyser is the managing member of the firm.  His practice involves the representation of real estate tax lien investors and commercial lenders in lien foreclosures, transactions involving lien portfolios, loans, bankruptcies, and related litigation He represents a broad range of businesses, commercial lenders and individuals in real estate and business transactions, commercial lending, work-outs and bankruptcy-related issues. His business practice includes representation of closely-held corporations, partnership and limited liability companies.

Mr. Keyser received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Lafayette College in 1977, and his Juris Doctorate from the Rutgers University School of Law at Camden in 1982.  He is admitted to practice before the State and Federal Courts of New Jersey and Pennsylvania and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Mr. Keyser is a member of the Corporate and Business Law, Real Estate, and Bankruptcy and Banking Law sections of the New Jersey Bar Association, and the Pennsylvania Bar Association.  He lectures on bankruptcy and real estate issues, government-backed lending programs, and issues which confront tax lien investors and their lenders.

Mr. Keyser is a former member of the Board of Directors and former President of the National Tax Lien Association (NTLA).  In 1995, President William Clinton appointed him as a delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business, where he specialized in issues of capital formation and availability.  In 2010, he was appointed by Governor Chris Christie to the Board of the New Jersey Tax Lien Finance Corporation.

Since forming his present firm in 2007, and in prior associations dating back to 1997, Mr. Keyser has handled thousands of tax foreclosures and numerous commercial mortgage foreclosures.  He has closed hundreds of real estate transactions, from $5000 bank REO sales to $30,000,000 multi-state transactions.   He has appeared for lien holders and lenders in countless Chapter 11 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy matters.  He represents construction contractors in collections, including enforcing construction lien claims.  He also handles commercial litigation and residential and commercial landlord/tenant actions.  In his prior associations, including at Kaplan Stewart, Wolf Block, and Dilworth Paxson, he prosecuted tax and commercial mortgage foreclosures, participated in real estate transactions, and represented banking institutions in their collection and bankruptcy litigation.

Robert W. Keyser has handled a number of appeals, some of which have resulted in reported decisions, arising out of real estate related cases.    They include the Supreme Court decisions in Simon v Rando, Malinowski v Jacobs, and CoreStates v Schaeffer Salt, and the Appellate Division decisions in Phoenix Funding v Krute, Realty Asset Properties v Oldham, Coryell LLC v Curry, and before the 3^rd Circuit and New Jersey Supreme Court in Princeton Office Park where he represented amicus curiae National Tax Lien Association.  He has also represented the NTLA as an amicus party before the Appellate Division in the MACWCP v Motiva matter, and currently before the New Jersey Supreme Court in Cherokee v City of Linden Planning Board.

He resides in Haddonfield, New Jersey with his wife, Denise.  He has four children who come home occasionally.