Geoff Howell

Representative Matters

• Landlord's counsel for the largest lease in the history of Massachusetts, a 1.3 million square foot office and laboratory lease in two new buildings to be constructed on the Boston waterfront
• Tenant's counsel for a Fortune 100 company leasing 180,000 rentable square feet of office and lab space in Cambridge on a build-to-suit basis
• Lender's counsel for two institutional lenders making a US$230 million permanent loan secured by a first-class mixed office and retail complex in Boston
• Owner's and developer's counsel for a proposed 900,000  square foot mixed use project on the City of Boston waterfront
• Counsel for a quasi-public state agency in the development and ground lease of a 50,000 square foot wind technology testing facility in the City of Boston
• Counsel for a quasi-public stage agency in the long-term lease and development of broadband infrastructure serving western Massachusetts, as well as other real estate matters
• Borrower's counsel for US$260 million in construction and permanent financing for 900,000 square feet of new and redeveloped office and laboratory space in a suburban mixed use project
• Borrower's counsel for a US$250 million construction loan for 400,000 square feet of new office and laboratory space in an urban mixed use project
• Landlord's counsel in the negotiation of a build-to-suite lease for 325,000 square feet of office space in a suburban office park
• Landlord's counsel in the negotiation of a lease for 350,000 square feet of medical office and laboratory space in a multi-tenant environment
• Purchaser's counsel in the acquisition of select single-tenant properties throughout New England as part of a new investment portfolio
• Owner and developer's counsel in the acquisition, construction, leasing and disposition of a 225,000 square foot office building constructed in suburban Boston
• Owner's counsel for the leasing and disposition of a 419,000 square foot Class B office building converted to telecommunications use
• Owner's counsel for the acquisition, permitting, re-development and leasing of a 55,000 square foot downtown Boston office and light manufacturing building
• Tenant's counsel for a national management consulting firm in its lease negotiations in New York City, San Francisco, Boston and Atlanta
• Tenant's counsel for numerous technology-based clients in the greater Boston area
• Tenant's and owner's counsel for a publicly traded Fortune 500 investment bank with respect to numerous portfolio properties, including headquarters buildings in Boston and Quincy, Massachusetts
• Owner and developer's counsel in the construction and mezzanine debt financing and development of a 300-room hotel in the City of Boston
• Lender's counsel to a Massachusetts-based real estate development and investment firm in the roll-out of a national leasehold financing mechanism
• Acquisition counsel for a state employees pension fund in the purchase of a regional shopping center
• Investor's counsel in the formation of a joint venture to control the six-acre site of a proposed mixed use project in a suburb of Washington, DC, including the negotiation of a 60-year ground lease for the project site
• Leasing counsel for several major office and/or laboratory buildings and parks in Andover, Boston, Cambridge and Waltham, Massachusetts, suburban Chicago, Baltimore and southern Connecticut

• Serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors for MassEcon (formerly known as Massachusetts Alliance for Economic Development), a private, nonprofit partnership of business, industry leaders and government dedicated to the economic growth of Massachusetts
• Serves on the Board of Directors and is a past member of the Executive Committee for Greater Boston Legal Services, the leading provider of civil legal services to low-income residents of the Greater Boston area
• Serves as an associate Board member for A Better City, Inc., a nonprofit organization that works with private and public partners to advance the design, funding and operation of a variety of transportation, land development, and public realm projects and issues affecting the City of Boston