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About
Provided by Edward Hershfield
Practice Areas
Real Estate
Real Estate Funds
Opportunity Zone Funds
Land Use
Career
Edward S. Hershfield focuses his practice on representing clients throughout the United States in all aspects of complex real estate transactions, including acquisitions, financings, restructurings, zoning and land use matters, development and permitting processes, workouts, and dispositions. His clients include institutions, national real estate developers, private equity funds, hedge funds, foreign investors, pension fund advisors, publicly traded corporations, national banks, and other lenders.
Ed is regularly involved in all facets of structuring real estate acquisitions, developments, financings and dispositions, including working with clients to create development entities, analyze potential sites and projects, and obtain traditional and innovative financing, including preferred equity and mezzanine loans. He also works with owners and lenders to develop and implement financing workouts and restructures of real estate loans. He has been involved in creating numerous “shared appreciation” restructurings where lenders and other creditors obtained equity interests and additional payments based on future property performance and sales value. His experience includes working with owners, private equity funds, hedge funds, and other investors in identifying value in real estate assets, developing strategies to give his clients competitive advantages, and acquiring assets or loans to enable his clients to take full advantage of opportunities.
Concentrations:
Real estate development
Land development
Sports, gaming and entertainment
Finance
Professional Memberships
-Member, Boston Bar Association
-Innovating Commerce Serving Communities
-Former Chairman, Town of Sharon Zoning Board of Appeals
-Board Member, Anti-Defamation League, New England
Publications
Listed, Chambers USA Guide: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business, 2016-2022
Personal
J.D., Columbia University Law School, 1984
B.A., magna cum laude, Brown University, 1981
Chambers Review
USA
Edward Hershfield advises clients on transactional real estate matters. His practice includes acquisitions, financings, redevelopment and leases. He is also regularly involved in zoning work.
Edward Hershfield advises clients on transactional real estate matters. His practice includes acquisitions, financings, redevelopment and leases. He is also regularly involved in zoning work.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"He's head of their real estate group and is a rock star."
"Ed is always engaged and offers a reassuring command of the legal scope of the work."
"Ed is a smart guy and a nice person."
"He's head of their real estate group and is a rock star."
"Ed is always engaged and offers a reassuring command of the legal scope of the work."
"Ed is a smart guy and a nice person."
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