Real Estate

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Our real estate lawyers are engaged in virtually every aspect of the industry, including: acquisitions and dispositions, development, finance, leasing, zoning and environmental compliance and permitting, workouts and REITs. We represent a broad spectrum of clients, including owners, developers, investors, lenders and tenants in projects of all sizes. Serving as general counsel for development projects is a special focus of our practice, typified by our work on large-scale, mixed-use downtown development projects; retail project development for one of the region's major supermarket chains; assisted living projects; apartment and condominium development projects; and health care and biotechnology facility projects.

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Representative Client Work

• Helped our clients successfully close more than $3 billion in commercial property acquisitions in 2011 and 2012
• The acquisition of a portfolio of 9 senior living rental communities in six states for approximately $478 million, including approximately $164 million of assumed mortgage debt, in a RIDEA-compliant structure
• Completed the transfer of over 65 leasehold interests covering over two million square feet of office space throughout the United States in conjunction with the spin-off of a new company from a national financial services company
• Represented the holders of leasehold and mortgage interests in approximately 57 real properties located in 13 states in settlements whereby the properties were recovered and the debt resolved within a short time of Chapter 11 filings
• Represented lending group providing acquisition and renovation financing for a Class B+ office building in Washington, D.C. ($200 million)
• On-going representation of the largest independent restaurant owner in New England, one of the country's largest supermarket operators and the country's leading retail pet care supplier
• Served as counsel to REITs and real estate operators in raising over $4 billion through the sale of debt and equity securities in the past four years
• Nationwide leasing of more than six million square feet of Class A office space for a Big 4 accounting firm
• The development of Boston's World Trade Center, consisting of a 420-room hotel and 1 million square feet of office space
• Defended environmental and Superfund claims against manufacturers, including one action terminated with no fine or penalty against a well-known manufacturer of specialty consumer products, arising out of more than 100 years of manufacturing activities on the Boston waterfront
• The acquisition of nearly 4,000 sites for a tower company in a series of portfolio sales, including one which totaled over 1,900 sites in 47 states