Michelle Da Rosa

Practice Areas

Real Estate

Commercial Lease Law

Real Estate Finance

Retail Leasing Law

Aviation Industry Law

Solar & Renewable Energy Law

Affordable Housing

Career

Michelle Da Rosa is a Partner in the Firm’s Portland office and a member of the Real Estate practice group. Ms. Da Rosa’s practice involves both traditional real estate transactions and development and renewable energy projects. She works with a variety of commercial and residential real estate developers, as well as clients in the hotel, wind, solar, and natural gas industries. Her real estate practice is broad and includes affordable housing development, grants, and financing, commercial leasing (retail, industrial, aircraft hangars, office, and cell towers), and analyzing and curing complex title issues. Ms. Da Rosa helps her clients secure the varied property rights they need for their project development. Performing due diligence, negotiating, and crafting real property agreements makes up a large part of her practice.

Ms. Da Rosa is one of Oregon’s leading attorneys in commercial and residential condominium law and master planned residential and commercial developments, with expertise in timeshares, common interest communities, association law, community land trust and affordable housing development.

She has helped her clients finance, acquire and sell wind, solar and geothermal projects, emphasizing title due diligence, and lease and easement agreements throughout the country. She also has experience in preparing gas and oil, and natural gas storage title opinions.

Professional Memberships

- Member, Real Estate, Land Use and Environmental sections, Oregon State Bar

- Real Estate Land Use Executive Committee, Member 2019-present, Treasurer 2024, Secretary 2025

- Member, Real Estate section, Washington State Bar

- Member, American Bar Association, Real Estate and Affordable Housing sections

- Condominium Legislative Working Group, 2011-present