LE RAY - Key Persons
Abigail LaFontan is an associate at Dain Torpy focusing on commercial real estate and land use litigation and lease transactions.
Job Titles:
- Board Secretary of the City of Chelsea Economic Development Board
Attorney Fraser currently serves as Board Secretary of the City of Chelsea Economic Development Board, and as a Board Member of the Hamilton-Garrett Music & Arts Academy.
Charles N. Le Ray is a founding partner of Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, P.C. He represents developers and owners of commercial real estate with complex land use, permitting, regulatory compliance, and environmental projects. His expertise is deepest in zoning, wetlands, MEPA, and site remediation. He also represents clients in administrative law and land use litigation matters and has experience negotiating project agreements and settlement agreements with project municipalities, project neighbors and opponents, and regulators.
Before co-founding this firm, Mr. Le Ray was an attorney with Goodwin Procter, LLP in Boston for over eleven years.
Dain Torpy is a proud sponsor of this year's annual Passport to Pairings event put on by the Boston Bar Foundation. The annual event welcomes hundreds of area attorneys, law students, and summer associates for a food-filled evening to support the Public Service programs of the BBA.
Dain Torpy is a proud funder the Boston Bar Association's Summer Jobs program. This summer from the help of its funders the BBA was able to fund summer jobs for 14 Boston High school students. Dain Torpy is also a proud supporter of numerous Boston charities and nonprofit organizations, including but not limited to: Heading Home, a charity dedicated to ending homelessness in Greater Boston, Cans for Charity, a nonprofit that uses money from recycling cans to help others in need, and More Than Words, a nonprofit empowering youth in the foster care system, homeless, or out of school to take charge of their life. Dain Torpy also sponsors events held by various Boston organizations. This year we have sponsored events like the Boston Bar Association Diversity Dinner, the Boston Bar Association Annual Luncheon, Town of Hingham's 4th of July Parade, and the Lawyers for Transgender Rights Fundraiser for the Massachusetts Transgender Political Coalition. Dain Torpy also participates in the American Heart Association's Lawyers Have Heart 5K each year, which raises money and awareness for heart disease and stroke victims.
Dain Torpy was a sponsor of this year's YouthConnect Fall Partnership Breakfast, which celebrated YouthConnect's 18th year of helping our communities' most at-risk youth through Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston's partnership with the Boston Police Department. Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston's YouthConnect program is an advocacy and intervention program of BGCB whose mission is to help the most at-risk young people make positive life choices through trusting relationships with skilled and compassionate social workers.
I co-founded what is today Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, PC to be the premier boutique law firm for the commercial real estate industry in Massachusetts. I am the President and Chairman of the firm. I am proud of what we have achieved. We have the best clients in the region, work on the most interesting and challenging real estate matters, and have a brand and style of practice respected throughout the industry.
As President and Chairman of the firm, it is part of my job to set the firm's priorities and values. First, we emphasize the importance of knowing our clients' business. As a firm, we understand commercial real estate and we recognize that our job is to advance each client's business, not just to close a particular deal or win a certain lawsuit. Legal strategy is dictated by business goals. Second, we aim to be perfect in everything that we do. Obviously, not everything can be perfect every time, but that is our ethos. Third, we strive to practice law the right way - to treat everyone with respect and to understand that the practice of law is not personal. Finally, we take ethics seriously and the firm will always back our attorneys to do what is ethically right and required in their practices. Our clients like working with the lawyers here at Dain Torpy. We have been rewarded with great client loyalty. We appreciate it.
Job Titles:
- Founding Partner of Dain
- Vice Chair of the Boston Public Market Association
Donald W. Wiest serves as the Vice Chair of the Boston Public Market Association, a non-profit with a mission of establishing a permanent, year-round public food hall in downtown Boston. He previously served as the Chair from 2007-2013.
Donald W. Wiest is a founding partner of Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, P.C. He focuses his practice on complex zoning and related permitting work. He served from 2001 to 2006 as the Land Use Counsel to the Boston Redevelopment Authority ("BRA"). In that capacity, he advised the BRA on a wide range of zoning and other land-use matters, including the permitting of all large-scale projects involving complex zoning (such as PDAs, Urban Renewal Areas, and Institutional Master Plans); drafting new zoning governing significant areas of the city; given numerous presentations on development-related land-use issues at community meetings and public hearings; and interpreting and drafting amendments to the Boston Zoning Code in a wide range of contexts. He worked closely on these matters with public officials throughout city and state government, private developers, and neighborhood groups and other public advocates. Mr. Wiest started his legal career at Kirkland & Ellis in Chicago and then practiced at Wilmer Hale's Boston Office.
Ed is Shareholder and Director at Dain Torpy, a seasoned commercial real estate transactional attorney, and transactional practice group leader. His practice encompasses the representation of owners, developers, investors, and investment managers in joint venture negotiations, property acquisition and disposition, debt and equity capitalization, entity recapitalizations, mezzanine and preferred equity investment and structuring, construction and construction financing and leasing, of all property types, including office, warehouse, distribution, flex, retail, and multi-family residential. Ed has also provided general counsel representation to real estate investment funds and fund sponsors.
Liz is a co-founder of Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, P.C., the Chief People Officer and former co-chair of the firm's leasing practice.
Liz previously practiced in the area of commercial leasing, including both owner and tenant representation.
She is the Chief People Officer of the firm, a role that the firm helped her create. The mission of the Chief People Officer is to create an overall firm culture and strategy that fosters and supports an exceptional team of professionals, and empowers success for all of our employees and, consequently our clients. By focusing on making the firm a great place to work, the firm is able to attract and retain the top talent in the field who want to be a part of our successful team, and this helps create long term value and growth.
Liz began her career in the real estate department of Testa, Hurwitz & Thibeault, LLP and rose to the level of senior associate before leaving in 2003 to co-found the real estate firm of Torpy & Garner, LLC, a predecessor to Dain Torpy.
Eric represents parties involved in all aspects of commercial real estate lease transactions, including institutional investors, developers, and public and private companies. Eric's extensive experience includes advising both landlords and tenants in lease negotiations and ongoing lease administration for office, life sciences, retail, and industrial properties in the New England area and across the country. Eric also advises companies in managing their real estate portfolio through all stages of the corporate life cycle, from initial lease-up to final disposition.
Joseph D. Feaster, Jr., Counsel at Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, P.C., has established himself during his more than 48-year legal career as one of the deans of the Boston bar. Since his time as the Chair of the Boston Zoning Board of Appeal, Feaster has become one of the City's most prominent development and permitting attorneys. His practice also encompasses general estate and licensing, corporate, litigation, employment and labor law, and probate.
Feaster practiced at McKenzie & Associates, P.C. and at Wynn & Wynn, P.C. before joining Dain Torpy. Feaster is also President of Feaster Enterprises, a strategic planning, organizational development, and community outreach consulting firm. He currently serves as the court-appointed Receiver for the Edgar P. Benjamin nursing home.
Additionally, Feaster previously served as the court-appointed Receiver for Roxbury Comprehensive Community Health Center for 5 years, as the Interim Town Manager of the Town of Stoughton, as President of the Massachusetts Community and Banking Council (MCBC), Acting Director of Real Estate for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, Interim Administrator of the Boston Housing Authority (one of the largest public housing authorities in the country), Assistant Secretary and General Counsel in the Commonwealth's Executive Office of Administration and Finance, Associate Counsel in Prudential Insurance Company's Northeast Home Office, and as an attorney at the National Labor Relations Board's Boston Regional Office.
Feaster's professional affiliations are numerous, as his expertise is sought within the City of Boston and nationally. These affiliations and service include serving as a mediator for the Suffolk County (MA) Superior Court Mediation program, as a registered lobbyist in Massachusetts, and, as noted, as chairman and member of the City of Boston Board of Appeal. He serves as an Executive Committee member of the Massachusetts Association for Mental Health, Inc. (MAMH), and as an Advisory Board Member of the Samaritan, Inc. He previously served as Chairman of the Board of Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts (ULEM); President of the Boston Branch NAACP, as Vice Chairman and board member of Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP), as Speaker of the House of the National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC), as a board member of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers (MLCHC), as a board member of Dimock Community Health Center, which tenure included serving as board chairman and as the Center's Interim President, and on the Executive Council of the Massachusetts AARP.
Feaster is a former board member of the National Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, former board member of the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) Boston, a gubernatorial appointee to the Commonwealth's Workforce Investment Board, past president of Northeastern University School of Law Alumni Association, past president of Northeastern University School of Law Black American Law Student Association (BALSA); past president of Combined Boston BALSA, past chairman of the Boston Enhanced Enterprise Community Advisory Board, and past co-chair of the Greater Boston Civil Rights Coalition.
Feaster previously served as the Senior Vice President of Victory Group, a government and community relations firm, as an adjunct professor in Northeastern University's Master of Public Administration program, and as a research associate at the William Monroe Trotter Institute at the University of Massachusetts at Boston.
Feaster received his Juris Doctor from Northeastern University School of Law. He has also completed programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Center for Real Estate Development and Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
Job Titles:
- Heading Home‘S Director of Major Gifts
Job Titles:
- Director
- Shareholder
- Member of the Boston, Real Estate
Kate Moran Carter assisted Urbanity Dance in moving to their new location at 1180 Washington Street in the South End. Ms. Carter assisted Urbanity in negotiating with the City of Boston and the Trustees of the mixed-use condominium in which Urbanity's space is now located, renegotiating the terms of Urbanity's lease, and addressing construction-related issues stemming from Urbanity's build-out in the new space. See more about Urbanity Dance's move and their mission to grant access to dance and art to all in the article published by Boston.com: Urbanity Dance Builds Community Through Movement
Kate Moran Carter is a shareholder and director at Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, P.C. Her practice focuses on real estate land use, and title litigation, and helping her clients manage risk and resolve disputes to avoid litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Carter spent six years as an associate at Robinson + Cole, LLP in the firm's Title Insurance-Real Estate Litigation practice group.
Ms. Carter provides litigation services to owners, developers, and operators of real estate concerning a wide range of matters including zoning litigation, landlord/tenant leasing disputes, buyer/seller real estate transaction disputes, owner/contractor construction disputes, broker/client commission disputes, title disputes, easement interpretation, boundary line disputes, adverse possession and beach rights.
Additionally, a portion of Ms. Carter's practice is devoted to advising condominium associations in connection with a full range of issues including interpretation of condominium documents, the initial transition from developer control, governance questions, construction litigation, and disputes with unit owners. Ms. Carter has tried cases in Massachusetts District and Superior Courts and the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts. She has argued before the Massachusetts Appeals Court and the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Ms. Carter is also committed to providing pro bono representation to immigrants applying for political asylum through her participation in the Political Asylum Immigration Representation Project (PAIR). Ms. Carter has won asylum or otherwise secured protection for clients from Togo, Uganda, and Syria.
Ms. Carter was selected by the WBA to participate in the 2015-2016 Women's Leadership Initiative, a program that only 15 lawyers were chosen for and are described as "rising stars of the profession"
Ms. Carter is a member of the Boston, Real Estate, Rhode Island and Women's Bar Associations
Kim Khuu Dooley is an associate at Dain Torpy focusing on commercial real estate transactional matters, particularly acquisitions, dispositions, entity formation, and land use. Prior to joining Dain Torpy, Kim worked at a mid-size law firm in Rhode Island where she assisted large and small clients with various real estate and corporate needs. Her exposure to multiple practice areas including commercial and residential real estate, entity formation, corporate health care, environmental law, estate planning, probate, and land use allows her to bring her knowledge and unique perspective to serve our clients.
During law school, Kim served as a student attorney for the Roger Williams University School of Law Veteran's Disability Clinic and the Immigration Clinic.
Job Titles:
- Chief Administrative Officer
Meredith's practice is primarily focused on commercial leasing (representing both landlords and tenants), including retail, restaurant, life sciences, industrial, and office, as well as acquisitions and dispositions of commercial property and other real estate interests. For more than 20 years, Meredith has practiced real estate law in New England and nationwide, serving as in-house real estate counsel for the Mayo Group, and later for Dr. Gerald Chan with the Morningside Group; additionally, Meredith spent over 10 years with local and national law firms. As a result of Meredith's varied practice history, she has a wide breadth of experience that also includes real estate investment and development, property management, residential conveyancing and leasing, and condominium law.
Michael McDermott is a shareholder and director at Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, P.C. His practice focuses on resolving land use, real estate, environmental, agricultural, and zoning disputes. In addition, his practice includes providing property owners and developers with due diligence, permitting, and conflict avoidance services and advising the governing boards of Massachusetts condominium associations. Mr. McDermott also handles a number of pro bono matters including representing asylum applicants, and serving as real estate and litigation counsel for local non-profits. Mr. McDermott has tried cases in Massachusetts District, Superior, and Land Courts, before the United States Immigration Court, and in administrative law tribunals.
Michael Riley is a commercial real estate lawyer who focuses his practice on leasing and transactional work. Mike represents landlords and tenants in all aspects of commercial leasing transactions across a broad range of asset classes, including office, life sciences, retail and industrial. Mike's extensive experience allows him to provide clients with insightful and practical advice on both the legal and business issues that arise not only during initial lease negotiations but throughout the ensuing landlord/tenant relationship.
Michael Parker is a real estate/environmental lawyer with extensive experience in complex real estate, land use, and environmental matters in nearly all of Boston's neighborhoods and the surrounding area. Michael started his legal career in the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund program. He represents a wide range of clients in the acquisition, permitting, and development of real estate projects with a focus on large project review, permitting, and climate resiliency. He manages the environmental due diligence for significant real estate and corporate transactions, assists clients with responses to RFPs, and advises on the environmental aspects of projects.
Michael has extensive experience in litigation of environmental remediation cost recovery, property damage claims, as well as state, local, and federal regulatory and enforcement matters. Michael also advises clients on federal and state Brownfields redevelopment, including Brownfields Tax Credits. Regulatory matters Michael has experience with include Boston's Article 80 Large Project Review, Boston's Parking Freeze Program, federal and state Superfund laws, Massachusetts Public Waterfront Act (Chapter 91), Wetlands Protection Act, Massachusetts Water Management Act, Massachusetts Chapter 21E, Clean Water Act, RCRA, TSCA, Clean Air Act and Residential Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction Act.
Molly Myers is an Associate at Dain Torpy. She has experience with a broad range of commercial real estate transactional matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, and leases. She handles detailed survey and title reviews, including drafting curative title documents and negotiating title insurance policy coverage. Molly coordinates commercial real estate closings, reviewing settlement statements and coordinating funding and disbursements. Molly also has experience representing borrowers in connection with construction financing. Additionally, she has experience drafting and negotiating leases and ancillary documents such as amendments, assignments, estoppel certificates, and subordination agreements.
Prior to joining Dain Torpy, Molly worked as an Associate at Leech Tishman in Pittsburgh. She was a member of the Real Estate and Corporate Practice Groups, where her focus was real estate and business law. During law school, Molly completed the Summer Study of Law and Labor Law Clinical Programs in Beijing, China. In her free time, Molly enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, and practicing yoga.
Draft and negotiate private/public development agreements between municipalities and private developers. Projects include a land swap and development agreement with zoning amendments for the creation of multi-family housing with affordable units and playing fields, and a development agreement for the rezoning of land for multi-family housing in exchange for preservation of open space and development restrictions.
Review title in connection with the acquisition, disposition, or development of municipal property.
Prepare requests for proposals for the acquisition, disposition, and leasing of municipal property.
Advise all aspects of municipal real estate, including use of community preservation funds for real property interests, street layout and acceptance and discontinuance procedures.
Nancer Ballard worked as an insurance specialist with Joe Savage and others at Goodwin Procter, LLP to settle a civil case brought on behalf of a man who was wrongfully convicted and imprisoned for over nineteen years before being exonerated through the efforts of the New England Innocence Project.
Job Titles:
- Senior Associate in Dain Torpy
Natasha Winter is a senior associate in Dain Torpy's litigation group. Natasha specializes in representing developers defending zoning appeals, in Boston and throughout the Commonwealth. Her practice also includes other land use and general commercial real estate litigation.
Prior to joining Dain Torpy, Natasha was an associate at Melick & Porter, LLP, defending insurers and insureds in a wide range of civil litigation matters (general liability, professional liability, product liability, M.G.L. c. 93A claims, and insurance coverage). Before Melick & Porter, Natasha practiced land use and environmental law at KP Law, P.C., and was in general private practice at Bletzer & Bletzer, P.C.
During law school, Natasha was a member of the National Environmental Moot Court team, and interned at the U.S. Department of the Interior, Office of the Solicitor, the Rhode Island Attorney General's Office (Environmental Division), and MetroWest Legal Services (foreclosure defense project).
Nicholas Dorf is an associate real estate attorney who concentrates his practice on commercial leasing, transactional, and land use matters. Prior to joining Dain Torpy, Nicholas was the Research Attorney for the Land Court Department of the Massachusetts Trial Court, where he provided in-depth guidance to the Justices of the court on a broad spectrum of real estate and land use issues. Nicholas previously worked as judicial law clerk at the Vermont Superior Court, a judicial law clerk at the Land Court, and in private practice at Kaplan Law LLC.
During law school, Nicholas interned at the City of Newton Law Department, the Land Court, and the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination. He was an Articles Editor of the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review, and graduated with a Certificate in Land Use and Environmental Law.
Peter Brassard is an experienced commercial real estate transactional attorney. Peter represents parties involved in all aspects of commercial real estate, including leasing, acquisitions, dispositions, financings, condominiums, joint ventures, and other real estate investment, development, and operational matters. Peter focuses his practice on leasing and leasing administration of all property types on behalf of both landlords and tenants, including office, retail, warehouse, industrial, flex, mixed-use, and laboratory.
R.J. Lyman is one of Massachusetts' leading environmental, land-use, and real estate lawyers. He represents developers, investors, and other stakeholders in commercial and industrial, energy and infrastructure, and residential and eleemosynary projects. His expertise is deepest in complex permitting matters, building on his service as a senior policy-maker overseeing regulatory reform under two Massachusetts Governors.
Robert Greene focuses his practice on commercial leasing and transactional work. Rob represents both landlord and tenant parties across all aspects of commercial real estate lease transactions, with a particular focus in ongoing lease administration for various asset classes, including general office, retail, restaurant, warehouse, and life science property types.
Prior to joining Dain Torpy, Rob served as Associate General Counsel at the Division of Capital Asset Management and Maintenance, where he provided essential guidance and legal insight into an assortment of Commonwealth real estate leasing, licensing, and land use development projects. Throughout his law school career, Rob served as Treasurer for the board of the Real Estate Law Society.
Sarah McHale is an Associate at Dain Torpy, where she specializes in commercial real estate and land use litigation, alongside various leasing and transactional matters. A proud graduate of Suffolk University Law School, Sarah distinguished herself as the Chief Competitions Editor for the Transnational Law Review and served as Secretary of the Real Estate Law Society. Additionally, she was an active member of both the Tax Law Association and the Women's Bar Association.
Prior to attending law school and joining Dain Torpy, Sarah spent three years working for the Connecticut State Senate in Hartford, CT. At the same time, she also managed several state and local campaigns, striving to elect committed and effective leaders up and down the ballot. In her free time, Sarah enjoys spending time with family and friends, skiing, reading, and riding her Peloton bike.
Purrington's practice focuses on real estate and finance matters, and the representation of institutional lenders and investors in various real estate and structured finance transactions. Prior to joining Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, P.C. Ms. Purrington spent eight years at Dechert, LLP where she focused on representing institution lenders and underwriters in loan originations, structured finance transactions and sale lease-back financing. She has also successfully represented underwriters/initial lenders in $1.25 billion credit lease financing of more than 340 commercial properties nationwide. Much of Ms. Purrington's work includes representing parties in large multi-state, multi-property financing transactions, as well as being experienced in credit tenant lease financing.
Shari's representation of owners and purchasers of real estate includes negotiating acquisitions, financings, and leases. Her experience representing a variety of lenders adds value for her borrower clients in financing transactions.
Susan Murphy has over thirty years of experience in commercial real estate development, acquisition and disposition, leasing, and zoning and land use, both locally and nationally. Additionally, a portion of her practice is devoted to representing cities and towns on matters related to the acquisition and disposition of municipal real property interests, zoning and land use permitting, resiliency projects, and public procurement. She started her career at Nutter, McClennen & Fish and then served as counsel at Wilmer Hale before joining Dain Torpy where her practice includes representation of a diverse array of clients such as publicly-traded REITS, development companies, small business owners, family-owned businesses, cities and towns.
Susan is a frequent speaker on land use issues for professional organizations and an annual guest speaker in the masters program at the MIT Center for Real Estate. She served for over ten years as an elected planning board member and on various local committees. Susan's private practice and municipal experience provide her with a rare 360° perspective when advising clients with all aspects of real estate transactions, land use and development, bringing a wide breadth of experience to addressing clients' legal services needs on a personal level.
Timothy Fraser is Counsel at Dain, Torpy, Le Ray, Wiest & Garner, P.C., bringing over 20 years' experience in real estate development, corporate & real estate transactions, litigation & administrative law, and the food and beverage industries. He represents clients on a variety of real estate development matters, including zoning, licensing, permitting, and transactions.
Attorney Fraser graduated from Hampton University in Hampton, VA with a B.S. in Marketing, and received his Juris Doctor in Taxation from Suffolk University Law School in Boston. While in law school, he worked full-time as a legal assistant at a Boston law firm, and also served as Regional Representative of the Northeast Black Law Students Association and Content Editor of the Suffolk Journal of High Technology Law.
Attorney Fraser began his legal career specializing in corporate mergers & acquisitions with global consulting firms. During this time, Attorney Fraser concentrated his practice on the purchase, sale, and other transactions involving companies in the food, beverage, apparel, and lifestyle industries. After law school, Tim also studied film and media production at Emerson College in Boston. During this time, he wrote, directed, and produced several short films, participated in various film festivals, and was selected as a finalist in the Directors Guild of America's prestigious DGA Trainee Program. An accomplished home-chef, Tim also launched and operated Cameo Macaron, a Boston-based, French macaron food truck.
Attorney Fraser now applies his well-rounded expertise in corporate transactions, administrative law, real estate development, film & entertainment, and the food & beverage industries to provide legal counsel to corporate, individual, and non-profit clients. His practice primarily includes real estate transactions, real estate development, and zoning, licensing & permitting. He has significant experience representing clients before state and local administrative bodies such as the City of Boston's Zoning Board of Appeal, Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA), Inspectional Services Department (ISD), and Licensing Board, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts' Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission (ABCC), the Cannabis Control Commission, and the Consumer Affairs Division. In addition, he has represented clients in litigation in the Massachusetts Superior Court, District courts, Probate Court, Land Court, and the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts.
Tim Pecci represents institutional lenders and investors nationwide in a wide variety of real estate and structured finance transactions. His practice focuses on private placements, public offerings of debt, bank loans, capital markets loan origination, and mezzanine loans. Much of his work has involved representing parties in large multi-state, multi-property financing transactions. Tim is also an expert in credit tenant lease financing, having structured, documented and closed several billion dollars of CTL transactions during his career.
Tim routinely represents lenders and loan servicers in post-closing loan modifications, workouts, and foreclosures. He also represents purchasers and sellers of debt in loan sale, syndication, and participation transactions. Tim has represented issuers and collateral managers in commercial real estate collateralized debt obligation transactions, lenders in synthetic lease transactions, and various parties in equipment finance transactions involving aircraft, commercial watercraft, office furniture, and other assets.
Tim's representation of owners and purchasers of real estate includes negotiating acquisitions, financings, and leases. His experience representing a variety of lenders adds value for his borrower clients in financing transactions. Tim also maintains a commercial leasing practice.
Victoria L. Polito is a commercial real estate attorney with over thirty years of experience handling a broad range of commercial real estate transactions. Ms. Polito's experience includes representation of landlords (including owners of downtown Boston office buildings and suburban office parks) and tenants in connection with office, shopping center, restaurant, and industrial leases, representation of buyers and sellers in connection with the acquisition and sale of industrial sites, apartment complexes and shopping centers, representation of developers regarding land use, title and zoning matters, and representation of institutional lenders and borrowers in connection with mortgage financing transactions.
Prior to joining Dain Torpy, Ms. Polito spent six years as Of Counsel at the Boston office of Seyfarth Shaw, LLP in its Real Estate Practice Group. Previously Ms. Polito was a partner in the Boston firm of Singer, Stoneman, Kunian & Kurland, P.C., where she handled both commercial real estate and business transactions. Ms. Polito's broad range of transactional and leasing experience provides clients with expertise across the commercial real estate spectrum.
Job Titles:
- Street Association, Inc., Vice President