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2024 Lawyers in Real Estate Awards
Boston & New England

Carla M. Moynihan
Represented the Boston Planning and Development Agency on the Building 108 redevelopment
Worked with Rafi Properties on its $88-million acquisition of the former Ames Business Park
Carla M. Moynihan, partner and chair of the firm’s Real Estate Department, has over 25 years of transactional experience advising clients in all aspects of their acquisition, disposition, leasing, permitting, construction, and financing projects.
Her client base includes owners, institutions, developers, retailers, individual investors, hotels, state agencies, municipalities, and lenders. She handles single-asset and portfolio transactions for hotel, retail, office, multifamily, or industrial uses. She advises on purchase and sale agreements, leases, joint ventures, investments, financings (CRE and CMBS), development agreements, and architectural and construction contracts.
Moynihan represented the Boston Planning and Development Agency on various long-term ground lease projects throughout Boston. One deal involved redeveloping 97,000 square feet of the former Building 108 Power Plant in the Navy Yard. She also worked with Rafi Properties in the $88-million acquisition and $29.3-million financing of the former Ames Business Park (now Somernova) in Somerville, MA.
Moynihan is a frequent lecturer on commercial real estate transactional matters and a former adjunct faculty member at the Boston University School of Law. She has been recognized as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer and Rising Star and named to Boston Magazine’s Top Lawyers List.
This is why Carla M. Moynihan received Connect CRE’s 2024 Boston & New England Lawyers in Real Estate Award. The award celebrates real estate attorneys who have distinguished themselves in their practice and the larger community.
