Attorney Profile
Mark Christman
Education: Allegheny College (B.S. Economics, 1983); Dickinson School of Law of the Pennsylvania State University (J.D., 1986).
Admissions: Pennsylvania Bar, 1986
Practice Areas: General Corporate, Municipal, Real Estate, Entertainment.
Focus:: Closely-Held Business Transactions, Land Use Planning and Zoning, Commercial Real Estate Purchase Sale and Lease, Museum and Cultural Exhibitions and Merchandising.
Memberships:: American Bar Association, Allegheny County Bar Association.
Mark J. Christman is a shareholder with the Pittsburgh office of the law firm of Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky. He has a broad-based, diverse range of corporate, municipal, real estate, and entertainment experience.
Mark has formed and represents a number of closely-held businesses in across a wide section of industries, including entertainment, commercial printing, aviation, retailing, wholesaling, manufacturing, service, technology, and health care.
Mark has extensive experience in representing municipalities, zoning hearing boards, planning commissions, developers, and owners of real estate (and objectors) in land use matters. As a result, he has a comprehensive working knowledge of the procedures before municipal governing bodies, planning commissions, and zoning hearing boards.
Mark provides business advisory services to members of the entertainment industry, including recording artists, arts organizations, and live tour and museum cultural exhibition producers and merchandisers.
