Christopher H Milton

Practice Areas

Land Use

Real Estate

Environmental

Gaming

Infrastructure

Real Estate Operations

Real Estate Finance

Career

Christopher H. Milton has a wide variety of experience in numerous areas of real estate development, financing, entitlements and operations.

Chris represents regional, national and foreign owners, developers and investors in connection with all aspects of real estate development from acquisition through zoning relief, subdivision, permitting and entitlements, environmental remediation and construction.

Chris represents lenders and investors in multi-party real estate based financial transactions and related loan workouts, restructurings and foreclosures. More specifically, Chris represents owners of real estate on mortgage loans of up to $200 million, various banks in construction loans ranging up to $100 million and large insurance companies on more than 50 permanent mortgage loans involving principal amounts from $15 million to $310 million, and has been involved in private equity transactions, and in the formation of various joint ventures and sale and leaseback transactions. He has also represented many of these lenders and investors in workouts, restructurings and foreclosures.

Chris is involved in acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and various other operational matters relating to real estate. He is involved with real estate owners and operators in the valuation of real estate in gaming, eminent domain, agricultural preservation easement, conservation easement and tax abatement contexts.

Concentrations:

Development and construction

Land use, zoning and subdivision

Environmental compliance and permitting

Financings, workouts, restructurings and foreclosures

Private placements, sale and leaseback transactions

Acquisitions and dispositions

Leasing and operational matters

Tax abatements, eminent domain

Professional Memberships

-Member, Board of Ambassadors, The Home for Little Wanderers

-Member, Boston Bar Association

-Member, National Association of Office and Industrial Properties (NAIOP)

-Former Member, Gala Committee, Discovering Justice,

-Member, Massachusetts Bar Association

-Member, Real Estate Bar Association

-Member, The Wellesley Club; President, Board of Directors

-Member, United Way Real Estate and Building Industry Breakfast, Breakfast Committee

-Member, Urban Land Institute (ULI) and former member of Urban Development Mixed Use Council (UDMUC), Purple Council

-Former Member, Wellesley Country Club, Long Range Planning Committee

Publications

Listed, Chambers USA Guide, 2009-2022

Personal

J.D., University of Michigan Law School

A.B., English, cum laude, Princeton University