Lauren I. Boro

Director

A professional woman with short blonde hair wearing a gray blazer and a white top, smiling against a gray background.

Phone: 650-696-2502

Email: lboro@carr-mcclellan.com

Practice Areas: Real Estate

Lauren’s Bio

Lauren is a commercial real estate lawyer with over 30 years of practice representing builders, developers, investors, landlords, and tenants. Lauren has served as general counsel for a prominent multi-family developer, the Northern California division of a publicly-traded homebuilder, and a real estate investment fund. These in-house roles, combined with her years of large law firm practice, influence Lauren’s disciplined, yet business-minded and practical approach to solving problems.

Lauren handles a broad range of real estate transactions, including the purchase and sale of improved and unimproved real property, the formation and structuring of joint venture relationships, ground leases, construction contracts, secured lending, and commercial leasing.

    • Land acquisition and disposition

    • Project finance

    • Joint ventures

    • Construction

    • Commercial leasing

    • Risk mitigation

    • Dispute resolution

    • Government compliance

    • Represent assemblage of landowners in connection with the sale/ground lease option for a biotech redevelopment project in South San Francisco.

    • Represent a hotel owner in connection with the negotiation of a ground lease for a multi-family redevelopment project on the Peninsula.

    • Represent a prominent San Francisco landlord in leasing a commercial portofolio.

    • Represent residential developer in the acquisition of a 100+ acre property for redevelopment.

    • Represent a multi-unit grocery store operator on leasing and other real estate requirements.

    • Represented a developer in the negotiation of a $50 million construction loan for a mixed-use hotel project in Oakland.

    • Represented multi-family developer in the negotiation of several complex joint venture relationships with institutions and private investors valued at well over $500M for multi-family projects on the Peninsula, including a 25 acre, multi-phased, broken mixes used tri-party project in Sunnyvale.

    • Represented a multi-family developer in the negotiation of several construction and permanent loans valued over $125 million.

    • Represented publicly-traded homebuilder in the acquisition of over 2000 lots and condominium units in more than 20 communities.

    • Represented publicly-traded homebuilder in the acquisition of land and development rights under a DDA for a 109 mixed-use condominium project in San Carlos.

    • Represented real estate investment fund in the formation and launch of 5 funds with aggregate commitment of more than $2 billion, in which CalPERS and CalSTRS were the largest investors.

    • Represented tenants in the negotiation of over 200 office, industrial, R&D, and build-to-suit leases.

    • ULI Urban Plan, Vice Chair

    • State Bar of California

    • HIP Housing, Member of Board and Executive Committee

    • Hillsborough Schools Foundation, Former Board Member

    • Pied Piper Players, Former Board Member

    • Page Mill YMCA, Former Board Member

    • UC Berkeley, B.A. with honors (1989)

    • New York University School of Law, J.D. (1992)

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