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Ms Ashley Brooks
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Ashley leads Sullivan’s Real Estate Group and is a member of the firm’s Management Committee. Her practice focuses on all aspects of transactional commercial real estate law, including single-lender and syndicated multi-lender financing, development, acquisitions and dispositions, private/preferred equity investing, and leasing, representing institutions and public and private companies across all asset classes throughout the United States. Ashley’s experience includes negotiating and documenting complex loan facilities (senior and mezzanine), construction loans, private/preferred equity ventures, fund formation, portfolio acquisitions and sales, ground leases, sale-leasebacks, workouts and foreclosures.
Career
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- Massachusetts
- U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Memberships
- Real Estate Lender’s Association (RELA)
- Trustee, Lawrence Model Lodging House Trust
- American Bar Association
- Boston Bar Association
- NAIOP Massachusetts Commercial Real Estate Development Association
- Former Co-Chair, Real Estate Finance Committee, Boston Bar Association
Education
- Northeastern University School of Law (J.D.)
- Colby College (B.A.)
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
With roots in Boston, Sullivan & Worcester LLP’s real estate development group handles an array of single and portfolio transactions, leasing, and permitting matters for developers, private equity funds, REITs, and government agencies, among others. Noted for its affordable housing and community development sub-group alongside its environment and natural resources group, the practice has experience across a wide stroke of asset classes that includes multifamily and industrials as well as hospitality and life sciences. Ashley Brooks leads the real estate group with experience covering development and finance, including the likes of workouts, construction loans and fund formation. Transaction lawyer John Steiner, director of real estate, is noted for his skill advising REITs and foreign investors as well as for his experience in the senior housing sector. Karen Kepler is another key member, mentioned for her expertise advising on real estate tax credits, among areas like condominiums, air-rights, and ground leases.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Finance > Fintech
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Tax > International tax
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market (sub-$500m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Real estate > Real estate
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)