Marisa N. Bocci

Marisa Bocci is a partner in K&L Gates’ Seattle office. Her practice focuses on hotel and resort properties, commercial real estate assets, agriculture and agribusiness matters, and natural resource investment activities. Bocci advises asset managers and institutional investors on direct investing, co-investments, joint ventures, and other investment strategies relating to real assets in a variety of sectors.

Bocci’s hospitality industry experience includes the purchase and sale of hotel properties, particularly in the luxury or full-service sector. She also works on matters relating to the golf and restaurant sectors. Bocci’s agriculture sector experience includes agribusiness investments. She regularly speaks and writes on agribusiness topics.

Many of Bocci’s transactions involve title and survey challenges, environmental remediation or clean-up concerns, or the purchase of distressed assets in a bankruptcy or foreclosure context.

Her professional and community affiliations include executive positions in the American Agricultural Law Association, Seattle Shakespeare Company, Jubilee Women’s Center and the Washington Women’s Foundation. Bocci also serves as notes editor with the Cardozo Law Review.

Chambers and Partners USA named her as America’s Leading Lawyers; she’s been a Super Lawyers Rising Star as well.

These are some of the reasons why we are honoring Marissa Bocci with Connect CRE’s 2022 Seattle & Pacific Northwest Lawyers in Real Estate Award. The award celebrates real estate attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their practice and the larger community.