Katelyn O’Brien > Proskauer Rose LLP > Boston, United States > Lawyer Profile
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BOSTON, MA 02110-2600
MASSACHUSETTS
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Katelyn O’Brien
Work Department
Real Estate
Position
Katelyn O’Brien is a partner in Proskauer’s Real Estate Department. Her practice focuses primarily on the financing, development, management, acquisition, disposition and leasing of commercial real estate.
Katelyn represents investors, developers and operators in joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, developments, leases and financing transactions relating to real estate. Her experience spans a variety of asset classes, including life sciences, office, hotels, resorts, senior housing, industrial and retail.
Katelyn is a co-chair of the Membership Committee of CREW Boston, New England’s leading network of professional women working in commercial real estate, and a member of the Real Estate Finance Association and the Real Estate Section of the Boston Bar Association.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
Focusing on the Boston, Chicago, New York and Los Angeles markets, Proskauer Rose LLP ‘breadth of expertise, bench strength, client orientation and deal sophistication’ is praised as ‘second to none’. The firm maintains its stellar reputation in transactional and leasing work involving life science, hotels and hospitality and retail real estate assets. Ronald Sernau in New York has deep experience representing purchasers and sellers, equity investors and leading Manhattan developers in transactional, leasing and development work. In Boston, Keith Barnett continues to hold lead counsel on multiple California transactions for the Vons and Safeway banners long-time client, Albertsons, including most recently, advising on conveyancing of air rights and other property rights in connection with development of several retail sites. Sean Boulger and Katelyn O’Brien are the other recommended partners in Boston.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
- Labor and employment > Labor and employment disputes (including collective actions)
- Labor and employment > Labor-management relations
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Industry focus > Sport
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Insurance > Advice to policyholders
- Investment fund formation and management > Alternative/hedge funds
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Tax > Not-for-profit (nonprofit and tax exempt organizations)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Real estate > Real estate
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Labor and employment > Immigration
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Healthcare > Service providers
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending