Real Estate

Our real estate lawyers are engaged in virtually every aspect of the industry, including: development, finance, leasing, zoning and environmental compliance and permitting. 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

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 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