Barbara Trachtenberg focuses her practice on real estate conveyancing, development, leasing and finance including joint venture and mezzanine transactions. She has represented regional and national owners and lenders in a broad variety of commercial real estate transactions. Her experience includes representing buyers and sellers of downtown office towers, hotels, office buildings, multifamily properties, mixed use projects and golf courses; representing institutional investors and developer partners in joint venture acquisition and financing transactions; representing borrowers, banks and institutional lenders in primary, secondary, and mezzanine lending for all asset types; and representing landlords and tenants in leasing transactions of office, retail, industrial, and laboratory space.

Ms. Trachtenberg is the president-elect of NEWIRE (New England Women in Real Estate), the local chapter of CREW Network, and is NEWIRE's chapter liaison for the 2009 CREW Convention, to be held in Boston. She is a member of the Real Estate Finance Association.

The respected English research firm Chambers & Partners cites her in Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business and notes that she "is held in high regard for her practice focusing on conveyancing, development, leasing and finance work." In 2007, Ms. Trachtenberg was one of only four lawyers named by the Boston Business Journal to its "40 under 40" list, recognizing Greater Boston's next generation of business leaders and innovators.

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