Brendan Pytka serves as the Director of Tax Credits & Incentives at Murphy Schiller & Wilkes LLP (MSW), assisting clients in assessing their financing strategy, and obtaining the necessary incentives to realize challenging and transformative real estate developments.‬

Brendan has over 15 years of experience in real estate development and finance. After graduating from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a focus on Finance, Real Estate and Business and Public Policy, Brendan was a member of the Mergers and Acquisitions team at JP Morgan in New York and London. He then joined a local real estate development firm in Newark, New Jersey, where he was involved in over $100M in real estate development activity across a range of product types including office, residential and retail. Most recently, Brendan ran a consulting and research firm that assisted clients across the country in analyzing and executing their real estate investment strategies.

He has experience structuring complicated transactions, incorporating various financing incentives, including Historic Tax Credits, New Market Tax Credits, Low-Income Housing Tax Credits and incentives through the New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA), including the Aspire Tax Credit Program.

Brendan lives in Jersey City, New Jersey and spends his free time coaching youth soccer, maintaining trails for the New York / New Jersey Trail Conference and running.‬