FRANCIS J. BORIN
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Francis Borin is a partner in the Teaneck office of
DeCotiis. He joined the firm in 1995 and became
a partner in 2001. He is a member of the
Government, Environmental and Green practice
groups.
Mr. Borin’s practice includes several disciplines
and encompasses work in the areas of Public
Utilities, Real Estate, Environmental Law and
Government and Regulatory Affairs.
Mr. Borin has extensive experience counseling
both public and private entities in connection with
large-scale development and redevelopment
projects. He has successfully represented clients
in connection with matters involving the state’s
Local Redevelopment and Housing Law, as well as
numerous
real
property,
planning
and
environmental permitting issues. His work has
involved the use of eminent domain to acquire
properties for redevelopment projects, including
the successful use of good faith negotiations for
the purchase of a former petroleum tank farm and
other contaminated properties.
Mr. Borin currently serves as General Counsel to
the North Jersey District Water Supply
Commission, the largest public water supplier in
the State of New Jersey. In that capacity, he has
worked on numerous financing and constructionrelated issues associated with a large dam
rehabilitation project and a major proposed plant
improvement project. He has represented his
client before the New Jersey Department of
Environmental Protection on regulatory issues
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FRANCIS J. BORIN
ATTORNEY AT LAW
associated with both the drought management and water allocation processes. Mr. Borin has also
assisted his client with the acquisition of properties deemed critical to the protection and
enhancement of the watershed.
Mr. Borin’s experience also extends to wastewater treatment matters. He previously served as
General Counsel to both the Joint Meeting of Essex and Union Counties and the Edgewater
Municipal Utilities Authority. His experiences there largely involved issues concerning public
contracting and procurement, environmental permitting, and real estate. He recently represented
the Edgewater Municipal Utilities Authority in the sale of its assets to the Bergen County Utilities
Authority. That transaction involved significant issues of project finance, environmental permitting
and real estate. Mr. Borin also assisted the Joint Meeting of Essex and Union Counties with its
industrial pretreatment program and worked on numerous enforcement matters as a result of his
client’s designation as a Delegated Local Agency of the New Jersey Department of Environmental
Protection.
More recently, Mr. Borin has represented the New Jersey Transit Corporation in connection with the
acquisition of properties, both surface and subsurface, required for the construction of a new rail
tunnel project connecting northern New Jersey with New York City. In that capacity, Mr. Borin has
worked to develop legal strategies related to the acquisition of the required properties within the
project timeline and has been responsible for the oversight of a number of attorneys working on
various condemnation and property acquisition issues.
Mr. Borin received his B.S., with a concentration in Finance, from Villanova University in 1990. He
is a 1994 graduate of Fordham University School of Law, where he was a staff member of the
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. Following law school, Mr. Borin
clerked for the Honorable Kevin M. O’Halloran, Presiding Judge of the Superior Court of New
Jersey, Bergen County, Chancery Division from 1994-1995. Mr. Borin has been a New Jersey
resident for over 40 years.