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Provided by Suzanne Bessette-Smith
Real Estate
As a real estate attorney with more than 40 years of experience, Suzanne is deal-driven, meticulous, practical, straight-forward, and a fierce advocate for her clients. She understands her clients’ businesses and proactively anticipates their needs as her clients evolve.
As co-chair of BFKN’s Real Estate Group, Suzanne concentrates her practice on commercial real estate and related corporate, securities, and business planning matters.
Suzanne has significant experience in the representation of publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) and the formation of joint ventures that combine developers and other real estate professionals with institutional financial partners. Her practice also focuses on the acquisition, disposition, and financing of industrial, office and multi-family properties, as well as franchised hotels, and the acquisition, disposition, and financing of long-term ground leased properties.
Additionally, Suzanne’s practice includes experience with Shari’ah-compliant financings, multi-jurisdictional portfolio acquisitions and financings, and tax-deferred exchanges. She also handles leasing of industrial and office properties, and work with distressed assets, including loan restructurings, consent foreclosures and deeds-in-lieu of foreclosure.
To learn more, please visit www.bfkn.com/suzannebessette-smith.
Provided by Chambers
Suzanne Bessette-Smith is well regarded for her handling of the sale, acquisition and financing of real estate assets, with notable work involving multifamily and office buildings. She is also adept at handling joint venture arrangements.
Provided by Chambers
"Suzanne is very good and provides great representation."
"Suzanne is very good and provides great representation."
