Erin A. Szulewski

Member

Erin provides legal advice to developers, lenders, buyers, and sellers on a range of complex real estate matters, such as title insurance, survey review, financing, environmental liability, and ADA compliance. She advises clients on a variety of zoning and land use matters, and navigates local government entities and private developers through the redevelopment process from plan negotiation to project completion. 

Prior to joining the firm, Erin was an attorney at a New Jersey law firm where she focused on real estate and land use. She counseled clients on various public financing and incentive programs available to developers and businesses and worked cross-functionally with construction, corporate, and municipal legal departments. After law school, Erin was a judicial law clerk for The Honorable Louis R. Meloni.

Erin earned her bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Monmouth University and her law degree from Rutgers School of Law. While in law school, Erin was associate research & writing editor for Rutgers Journal of Law & Religion and a judicial intern for the Superior Court of New Jersey, Chancery Division.

Experience

News

The American Bankruptcy Institute Selects Cozen O’Connor Transaction as Asset Sale of the Year

April 20, 2024

Cozen O’Connor is proud to announce that the firm’s Bankruptcy, Insolvency & Restructuring Group is the recipient of the American Bankruptcy Institute’s Asset Sale of the Year award.

Cozen O’Connor Promotes 23 Attorneys to Member

March 15, 2024

“This is a group of terrific lawyers across many offices and practices areas and we look forward to following their achievements,” said Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Michael J. Heller.

Cozen O’Connor Serves as U.S. Counsel to Cogne Acciai Speciali SpA on Definitive Agreement to Acquire Capital Stock of Mannesmann Stainless Tubes GmbH

March 05, 2024

Mannesmann has operations and operating plants throughout the United States as well as in Germany, France, and Italy. The transaction is valued at €135 million.

Cozen O’Connor Represents Equus Capital Partners, Ltd. in $1 Billion Multi-Tiered Real Estate Transaction

April 20, 2021

Cozen O'Connor represented affiliates of Equus Capital Partners, Ltd. in a multi-tiered transaction that included the sale of two portfolios of industrial properties throughout the Southeastern United States.

Publications

Summary and Analysis of Key Provisions of the CARES Act

March 28, 2020

Members of Cozen O'Connor's Coronavirus Task Force provide analysis of the CARES Act and how it will impact small businesses, distressed industries, employers and employees, taxes, and the health care, real estates, and energy industries.

Pennsylvania Hotels Not Included in Statewide Mandated Closures [Alert]

March 20, 2020

Erin Szulewski provides an update on what businesses are considered essential in Pennsylvania when following Governor Wolf's mandate for all non-essential businesses to close.

Pennsylvania Mandates Business Closures: Considerations for Commercial Property Owners [Alert]

March 20, 2020

Erin Szulewski answers commercial property owners' questions about Pennsylvania's business closure mandate.

Coronavirus and Commercial Real Estate Leases [Alert]

March 18, 2020

Christian Bruno, Matt Robbins, Jon Schoenwetter, and Erin Szulewski discuss the impact the COVID-19 outbreak is having on commercial real estate assets whose tenant occupants are experiencing complete or partial shutdown of their business operations.

Education

  • Rutgers University School of Law, J.D., 2014
  • Monmouth University, B.S., summa cum laude, 2011
  • New Jersey
  • Pennsylvania