NEW HAVEN, Connecticut (August 23, 2016) Andrew R. Lubin a partner in the law firm of Neubert, Pepe & Monteith, P.C., was named the Best Lawyers^® 2017 Real Estate "Lawyer of the Year” in New Haven.

Andy Lubin is an accomplished real estate and commercial finance attorney and heads his firm’s Best Law Firms® Metropolitan Tier 1 Real Estate Group. He assists clients in all aspects of acquisition, financing, leasing, management, restructuring and disposition for retail, residential, office and industrial properties. As part of his commercial lending practice, Attorney Lubin has developed a subspecialty in closing both SBA 7a and 504 Loans. He is one of only four practicing lawyers in Connecticut holding a “Designated Attorney” certification from the U.S. Small Business Administration. Among his many honors and awards, Attorney Lubin has been listed in Best Lawyers since 2001, was previously named the Best Lawyers Real Estate “Lawyer of the Year” in New Haven in 2014, has been listed in the publication “Connecticut Super Lawyers” since its inception, and holds an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

Attorney Lubin, a resident of Trumbull Connecticut, is active in both the Trumbull and greater New Haven communities. Attorney Lubin is a member of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and he is a member of the Trumbull Inland Wetland Commission.  He is a former board member and president of The Make-A-Wish Foundation of Connecticut, Inc. and a former committee member of the national Make-A-Wish Foundation of America.  Serving in leadership positions on numerous Bar Association committees, he currently is a member of the executive committee and former Chair of the Real Property Section of the Connecticut Bar Association, is a member of the New Haven County Bar Association Real Estate Committee, and a member of the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section of the American Bar Association. Attorney Lubin is a frequent lecturer on various real estate related topics.

Since its first publication in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Because Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which over 55,000 leading attorneys cast 6.7 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas, and because lawyers are not required or allowed to pay a fee to be listed, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. Corporate Counsel magazine has called Best Lawyers “the most respected referral list of attorneys in practice.”