Mintz Levin Successfully Closes the 2nd Largest Real Estate Transaction in Boston's History
2/15/2004
Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. announced it closed the 2nd largest real estate transaction in Boston's history, the sale of the 1 plus million square foot State Street Financial Center office tower at One Lincoln Street for $705,375,000.
Mintz Levin represented a partnership of State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, The Gale Company, and Columbia Plaza Associates in the sale of the office tower to American Financial Realty Trust, a Philadelphia based Real Estate Investment Trust.
The firm's team was comprised of members David Gilbert, Mary Lee Moore, Stuart Offner, David Halpert, and Michael Gardner, associate Allan Caggiano, and paralegal Courtney Griffin.
Mintz Levin is a multidisciplinary law firm with more than 450 attorneys and senior professionals in Boston, Washington D.C., Reston, VA, New York, New Haven, CT, Los Angeles and London.
Mintz Levin is distinguished by its reputation for responsive client service and expertise in the areas of bankruptcy; business and finance; communications; employment; environmental; federal; health care; immigration; intellectual property; litigation; public finance; real estate; tax; and trusts and estates. Mintz Levin's international clientele range from privately held start-ups to Fortune 100 companies in a wide array of industries including biotechnology, venture capital, telecommunications, health care and high technology.
Mintz Levin was one of the first law firms to develop complementary consulting capabilities to provide complete solutions to clients' problems, including investment/wealth management, government and public affairs and transactional insurance.
