Sullivan & Worcester LLP

Real Estate/Affordable Housing

Karen has a general commercial real estate development and finance practice representing owners, developers and financial institutions in construction, term and bridge financing transactions for all commercial real estate asset classes. She also leads the firm's Affordable Housing and Community Economic Development Group and has significant experience representing owners, developers, financial institutions and quasi-public agencies in HUD and Fannie Mae-financed developments, federal and state low income housing tax credit, historic tax credit and tax-exempt bond financed projects, New Markets Tax Credit developments and "Comprehensive Permit" projects under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 40B. Karen also has extensive experience structuring complex, multi-tiered and multi-phased projects using creative land use tools such as condominiums, air-rights and ground leases.

Karen is also co-chair of Sullivan's Women's Initiative and serves on the firm's Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Committee.

Bar & Court Admissions

• Massachusetts
• U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts

• Boston Bar Association, Co-Chair Real Estate Section, 2020-2021
• American Bar Association, Forum on Affordable Housing, past Chair of Senior Housing Committee, 1997-present
• Lawyers' Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing and Homelessness, Board Member and Past President, Lead-Boston Class of 2005-2006
• Women's Bar Foundation of Massachusetts, Inc., Past President and Trustee, 2001-2005
• Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts, Past President, 1989-1990

• Boston University School of Law (J.D.)
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst (B.A., cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)