Kirsten Day

Real Estate

Commercial Lease Law

Real Estate Finance

Retail Leasing Law

Kirsten Day is a Partner in Buchalter’s Portland office and a member of the Firm’s Real Estate practice group. Ms. Day brings over 20 years of experience to her national practice in leasing, acquisition/disposition, development and financing of regional shopping centers and other retail properties, Class A office buildings and industrial properties.

Ms. Day has ample experience as both a private attorney and as the former Vice President and General Counsel of PacTrust (Pacific Realty Associates, L.P.), which has given her both a strategic focus and first-hand knowledge of the day-to-day legal issues that her clients face. While at PacTrust, Ms. Day oversaw legal matters for a 16 million square foot national portfolio of office, retail and industrial commercial real estate. She continues to represent a variety of clients on commercial real estate matters of all types, including real estate company management responsibilities, dispute assessment, negotiating and managing regulatory environmental compliance agreements, and other legal/business questions and issues faced by real estate companies.

Impact Northwest (fka Portland Impact) Board of Directors, 2007 – 2013 and 2017 – 2018; Vice Chair, 2009; Chair, 2010 – 2013

SOLVE Oregon Board of Directors, 2012 – 2015; Secretary and Executive Committee, 2013 – 2015; Strategic/Special Projects, 2015

Lake Oswego School District Bond Accountability Committee, 2017 – 2020

Wasabi Paddling Club Board of Directors 2020 – 2022

Economic Development Policy Expert Group for Portland Comprehensive Plan Update, 2012

Multnomah County Business Advisory Council, 2011 – 2013

Oregon Uniform Covenants Act Work Group, Member, 2010 – 2011

CREW Network (formerly National Network of Commercial Real Estate Women), 1994 – present; Board of Directors CREW-San Francisco, 1996 – 1999

Lake Oswego High School Advisory Committee, 2015 – 2017

Social Venture Partners Portland, 2003 – 2009; Investee Lead Partner and Co-Creator, Parental Engagement Program, 2005 – 2008; Partner, 2011