Windels Marx Lane & Mittdendorf is continuing an expansion in New Jersey with the addition of three former Budd Larner attorneys.

The New York-based firm announced on Tuesday the arrival of Jonathan Gray as partner in the New Brunswick office; and Mark Larner as counsel and Frank Biancola as special counsel in the Madison office.

The trio arrives to Windels Marx less than three months after another batch of former Budd Larner employees joined the firm's Madison office.

“Our midsize, full-service practice platform is attractive for practices like Jonathan, Mark and Frank's,” Windels Marx managing partner Robert Luddy said in a statement. “We now have more than 70 lawyers licensed in New Jersey and nearly 150 firm-wide.”

Gray will focus on business and corporate law, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate formation and finance, venture capital and private equity matters, and joint ventures and strategic alliances, according to a news release issued Tuesday. He holds a law degree from Brooklyn Law School (1997) and a bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo (1993).

Larner will handle business and corporate law, financing transactions and mergers and acquisitions in various industries, including technology, transportation and real estate, according to the release. The 1964 Columbia School of Law graduate regularly serves as outside general counsel and adviser to privately held companies, and their owners and family offices. The release states Larner, who received his bachelor's degree from Lafayette College in 1961, also has represented private equity firms in connection with the acquisition, business operations and governance of portfolio companies, and served as a director of private, public and nonprofit corporations.

Biancola, a 1977 Rutgers Law School graduate, will focus on real estate and related matters. He has handled complex commercial and industrial real estate transactions, including leasing, mortgage-based financing, and purchases and sales. He also has experience representing institutional lenders in foreclosure matters. Biancola received a bachelor's degree from St. Peter's College in 1974.

The moves come less than a month after Short Hills-based Budd Larner formerly announced it would be closing after 85 years in business. The firm issued a statement on June 14 that it was closing in July, though the firm had begun seeing lateral departures last fall that lasted throughout spring.

Executive committee member Joseph Schiavone moved his seven-lawyer insurance practice to Saiber in September 2018. On April 11 it was first reported in the Law Journal that Budd Larner was losing 16 lawyers, including two other members of the firm's executive committee, to other firms: Andrew Miller led a group of 15 intellectual property lawyers to the Madison office of Windels Marx, and James Fitzsimmons left to join the Florham Park office of Drinker Biddle & Reath. Less than a week later, partners Karolina Dehnhard and David Tawil joined Bridgewater-based Norris McLaughlin to rebuild that firm's family law practice. On May 1, Joshua Weiner, who had spent three years at Budd Larner and chaired the employment and labor law practice group at the firm, went to Coughlin Duffy in Morristown. More recently, executive committee member Susan Winters left Budd Larner to launch a family law practice at Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi in West Orange as of July. And three litigators—Peter Frazza, the last remaining executive committee member, as well as Allen Harris and Christopher Anton—joined Gibbons in Newark, also as of July 1.