Kimberlee Stafford

Practice Areas

Real Estate & Land Use

Energy, Utilities & Renewables

Forest Products

Senior Living

Career

Kimberlee is Chair of Tonkon Torp’s Real Estate & Land Use Practice Group. Her practice is focused on helping businesses with their real estate transactional needs. She has expertise managing complex real estate transactions involving purchases and sales, leases, and financing for office, retail, and industrial properties for a diverse group of businesses, owners, and developers with an emphasis on the medical, veterinary, food and beverage, retail, seniors housing, renewable energy, and forest products industries.

Kimberlee has experience negotiating definitive agreements for commercial real estate development projects, including ground leases for two major hotels in downtown Portland.

She has extensive experience with timberland and mill purchases and sales in Oregon, Idaho and Montana. In the seniors housing market, she represents assisted living facility owners in loan transactions and frequently negotiates property management agreements.

Kimberlee negotiates retail leases in shopping centers throughout the United States. She also represents renewable energy clients in land acquisition, title curative matters, permitting due diligence, and project financing. She regularly handles real estate aspects of mergers, acquisitions, and bankruptcy transactions, which included helping a grocery store chain emerge from bankruptcy and obtain new financing secured by over 30 owned or leased properties.

Kimberlee’s clients appreciate her timely, efficient, and straightforward approach to problem solving.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW)

Multnomah Bar Association

Oregon Minority Lawyers Association

Oregon Women Lawyers

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Oregon State Bar

Idaho State Bar

Awards