Practice Focus

Steve Mangold is a Partner in the Business Law Group at Hemenway & Barnes, specializing in a wide range of real estate transactions. He has more than a decade of experience representing clients in commercial mixed-use property development, leasing, equity investment, and financing, as well as the purchase and sale of residential homes, condominium units, and vacation properties.

Clients such as developers, business owners, office tenants, individual homeowners, non-profit organizations, family trusts, and institutional commercial real estate lenders rely on Steve’s experience in a host of “dirt law” matters, including:

• Purchase and sale negotiations
• Boundary disputes, easement rights, covenants, conditions and restrictions
• Conservation restrictions
• Office and retail leasing
• Probate property sales and disbursements
• Transfers to trusts, entities and other ownership vehicles
• Commercial acquisition and construction financing
• Title and survey review, land use and zoning analysis, lot subdivision
• Owner-builder contracts
• Real estate development joint venture agreements

The breadth and depth of Steve’s experience allows him to deliver efficient, effective solutions for clients, regardless of the matter's size or complexity.

Representative Experience

• Counseled a growing family-owned company in the purchase, financing and leasing of an industrial facility to be converted for both owner-occupancy and commercial rental warehouse space.
• Represented a family trust in the sale of a retreat facility located on conservation land to a non-profit organization looking for a new home.
• Negotiated cross-easement rights for a shared driveway between adjacent multi-family residential developments in a fast-growing Boston suburb.
• Represented a national banking institution on the refinancing of a shopping center located on ground leased land with both existing term debt and new construction funding for leasehold improvements.
• Counseled a family business investing in real estate development projects as a co-general partner joint venture with local developers and subsequent institutional equity financings.
• Represented a land trust in the acquisition, restriction and sale of a historic home to be renovated and maintained in accordance with historic preservation and natural conservation guidelines in a rural neighborhood.
• Negotiated a commercial office lease for a non-profit organization moving to new office space in downtown Boston.
• Represented a real estate developer in the successful acquisition and construction financing for a condominium townhome development on a rare undeveloped parcel of land in a greater Boston community.
• Negotiated a pre-development agreement and closed the subsequent sale of a newly constructed multi-family apartment building on both fee and ground leased land in a dense urban setting.
• Closed the purchase of land and a defunct commercial building by a real estate joint venture to make way for the construction of a new residential housing project in a north Boston suburb.
• Completed the subdivision of a 5+ acre parcel of land with multiple apartment buildings with reciprocal cross easements for common space and facilities in downtown Boston.
• Represented a real estate developer in successfully negotiating purchase and sale agreements with several landowners to assemble adjoining parcels of land for a multi-family residential apartment complex in greater Boston.