Steve Rola

Steve Rola

Associate
About

Steve Rola advises developers, private equity firms, institutional and financial investors, and REITs in all matters throughout the ownership cycle of commercial real estate, including with respect to due diligence, acquisition, joint venture formation, debt financing and restructuring, leasing, property management and disposition.

Steve represents clients in their investment, development and financing of properties in a variety of asset classes, including multi-family, industrial/logistics, retail, office, life science/lab and senior living properties.

Areas of FocusReal Estate
Bar admissionsCaliforniaMassachusetts

EXPERIENCE

Steve’s example experience includes:
  • Represents a joint venture fund on behalf of a sponsor developer in over US$1.2 billion in financing of life science, lab and office properties in San Francisco, San Diego and Durham
  • Represents a US$7 billion pension-held REIT in the acquisitions and financings, leasing and management of office, retail, multifamily and industrial properties throughout California
  • Represented a family office investor in the joint venture acquisitions and financings of industrial and multifamily development projects in California and Massachusetts
  • Represents a vertically integrated real estate investment firm in joint venture formation, acquisition and financing, and sale transactions of senior housing communities in New England
  • Represents a vertically integrated real estate private equity firm as the investor in the joint venture formation, acquisition and financing, and sale of office, industrial and multifamily properties in New England, New York and New Jersey
  • Represents a joint venture on behalf of a sponsor developer in over US$400 million in financing of life science, lab, office and retail property in Massachusetts
  • Represented a sponsor owner and developer in the acquisitions, financings and dispositions of Class A and value add multi-family properties in Washington, Oregon and California
  • Represented a real estate developer in the US$153 million aggregation and acquisition of 4 parcels from separate sellers in San Francisco
  • Represented a publicly—traded REIT in the US$540 million CMBS mortgage and mezzanine loans secured by a leading retail center in Brooklyn, NY

Education
  • J.D., Harvard Law School
  • A.B., Anthropology, Harvard College

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Member, Urban Land Institute

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