Rebecca A Lee
USA Guide 2024
Band 1 : Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use
Band 1
About
Provided by Rebecca A Lee
Practice Areas
Rebecca is a preeminent commercial real estate lawyer who skillfully steers developers, lenders, companies and nonprofit organizations through a wide array of real estate transactions and matters. She has particular expertise in land use law and development permitting in the Greater Boston area, and she frequently draws upon her earlier experience as chief of staff / special counsel to the director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority — now known as the Boston Planning & Development Agency. In addition to development permitting at the federal, state and local levels, her practice encompasses a broad range of acquisitions / dispositions, condominium creation and financing, including matters that involve historic preservation and tax incentive elements. She has deep experience with development projects involving public/private partnerships and the negotiation of ground leases with public agencies and authorities.
Rebecca is Chair of the firm’s Real Estate Development Practice. She is also an avid baseball fan and regularly participates as a pianist in the Chamber Music Conference of the East held each summer.
Chambers Review
USA
Chair of the firm's real estate development practice, Rebecca Lee is esteemed for her representation of real estate developers, lenders and companies. She has a particularly robust land use and permitting practice, and also handles transactional real estate matters.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"We use Rebecca on our most challenging and complex matters. She is excellent at that."
"Rebecca has been doing this a very long time and is excellent. She is someone who does the biggest deals."
"We use Rebecca on our most challenging and complex matters. She is excellent at that."
"Rebecca has been doing this a very long time and is excellent. She is someone who does the biggest deals."