Overview Darren Baird, a Director, concentrates his practice on commercial real estate with a focus on complex real estate transactions, including the representation of owners, developers and lenders in the acquisition, financing, permitting and development of commercial real estate. Property types include office, hospital/clinical, medical office, biomedical research, life science and other laboratory facilities. Darren has extensive experience representing health care, educational, religious and non-profit institutions in a broad array of acquisition, development and financing matters. In this context, he has extensive experience in negotiating and structuring joint venture agreements and ground leases with for-profit entities and the 501(c)(3), UBTI and credit agency concerns arising from such transactions. Darren also represents a number of clients, ranging from non-profit developers to national multifamily REITS, in the acquisition, financing and development of housing developments undertaken pursuant to M.G.L. Chapter 40B, the Department of Housing and Community Development's Local Initiative Program and M.G.L. Chapter 40R. Darren is the co-chair of the Goulston & Storrs Medical, Educational and Cultural Institutions Industry Group. Prior to joining the firm, Darren worked as a Judicial Clerk to the Honorable Leon J. Lombardi, Land Court Department for the Massachusetts Trial Court. Darren also served as Chief Articles Editor for the International Law Review at Suffolk University School of Law. Representative Experience ˇ Counsel to major teaching hospital in acquisition, leasing, permitting, development, construction and financing of numerous projects in the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area, ranging from hospital/clinical facilities to life-science facilities and research laboratories. ˇ Counsel to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the development and construction of a 250,000 square foot clinical cancer facility in Boston. ˇ Advise medical and higher educational institutions in numerous master planning in and around their campuses as well as with regard to non-facility related acquisition, development, financing, ownership and operational matters. ˇ Counsel to an academic institution in the $500 million sale of a 1.2 million square foot laboratory and office campus in the Greater Boston Metropolitan Area. ˇ Counsel to national multifamily REIT in the acquisition, permitting and development of multifamily residential communities. ˇ Representation of international non-profit organization in the development and financing of affordable elderly housing and mixed-income developments, including a housing development under the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Section 202 Program and the refinancing of HUD direct loans for projects developed under the Section 202 Program. ˇ Counsel to international religious non-profit in the acquisition and development of a 90,000 square-foot community center in the Uphams Corner area of Boston. ˇ Representation of institutional lenders and a national insurance company in numerous mortgage loans. Professional and Community Involvement ˇ Massachusetts Bar Association ˇ Real Estate Bar Association Awards and Recognition ˇ Massachusetts Super Lawyers "Rising Stars", 2009 Advisories January 2011
Boston's PILOT Task Force Releases Report and Recommendations October 2009
Sustainability as an Imperative and Opportunity for Medical, Educational and Cultural Institutions Publications & Mentions Fall 2011
"Real Estate Issues", in Advising a Massachusetts Business, MCLE April 2010
"Institutional Growth Continues in Central Boston," Urban Land Magazine 2009
"Real Estate Law", Massachusetts Practice, Volumes 28, 28A and 28B |