Catherine Burns > Seyfarth Shaw LLP > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
Seyfarth Shaw LLP Offices
TWO SEAPORT LANE
SUITE 300
BOSTON, MA 02210-2028
MASSACHUSETTS
United States
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Catherine Burns
Position
Partner
Career
Catherine is an efficient and pragmatic real estate attorney who provides protective guidance to her clients. She strives to understand her clients’ business, their goals, and particular sensitivities with a direct and practical style. When geography permits, Catherine opts to hash deals out at a conference room table, and more often than not, her deals get done in four, not 40, drafts.
For more than 20 years, Catherine has represented real estate funds, developers, owners, and operators in connection with all aspects of their real estate investment transactions. She also provides trusted counsel on joint venture formation and restructuring, acquisition, development and financing, portfolio transactions, and leasing matters. Her broad practice touches upon every major sector—including office, retail, multifamily, and industrial.
Catherine stays on the front lines of industry trends and the changing marketplace, as evidenced by her recent experience managing transactions in the cannabis and opportunity zone investment space. As chair of the firm’s Boston Real Estate department, Catherine also remains connected with local market leaders and is in tune with current market terms. This allows her the ability to negotiate transactional documents with proficiency and to connect her clients with partners in the marketplace.
Education
- BS, Boston University
Cum laude - JD, Suffolk University Law School
Cum laude
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
Seyfarth Shaw LLP routinely represents REITs, leading developers, institutional landlords, and operators of hospitality, industrial and retail centres in all transactional, financing, development and leasing activities. Recommended lawyers in Boston include Catherine Burns , Andrew Pearlstein and Eric Greenberg, who stands out for his leasing portfolio work. New York’s key figures include real estate finance partner Daniel Evans and Cynthia Mitchell , who specializes in assisting healthcare clients in acquisition and disposition of the assets, and obtaining mortgage financing. Paul Mattingly chairs the practice from Atlanta.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Tax > Not-for-profit (Fortune 1000 private foundations, national trade associations, and charities)
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Government > Government contracts
- Real estate > Real estate
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious