Kim N.A. Boras is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Latham & Watkins and the Chair of the Los Angeles Real Estate Practice Group. Ms. Boras has broad experience in real estate transactional law, with a particular concentration on real estate finance. She has substantial experience in single asset and multiple property portfolio real estate financings from the borrower's and lender's perspectives, including securitized financings, participations and syndications secured by a range of property types, synthetic leasing and mezzanine financing. She has also represented lenders in connection with troubled loans involving amendments, restructuring, negotiating workouts and exercise of remedies.
Ms. Boras has represented purchasers and sellers in acquisitions and dispositions of various types of commercial real estate, including hotels, office buildings, industrial buildings, hospitals, and assemblages. She has also been involved in the structuring of entities and the transfer of partnership and limited liability company interests in connection with real estate transactions.
Ms. Boras has significant experience in the negotiation of commercial leases and subleases on behalf of both landlords and tenants for office, retail and industrial space. She also has considerable experience with the real estate aspects of mergers and acquisitions, corporate banking and secured bond transactions.
Ms. Boras also has been active in pro bono activities. She, along with several associates in the Los Angeles office, contributed hundreds of hours to assisting Salvadoran and Guatemalan immigrants attain legal status at the Central American Refugee Center, for which efforts Latham & Watkins received several commendations. She also was on the staff as counsel to the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department (the “Christopher Commission”) and made important contributions to the Commission’s Report. She was involved in the early stages of creating Rebuild LA and assembled the grant proposal that gave Rebuild LA the initial federal funding it needed to become operational. She served on the board of Girls, Inc., an organization devoted to empowering girls to realize their potential and exercise their rights; and she is currently a board member of the Constitutional Rights Foundation, which seeks to educate young people to become active and responsible citizens.
Before arriving at Latham, Ms. Boras worked for one year as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Peter T. Fay, Judge, United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit. She began her career with Latham in 1990 in the Los Angeles office, then spent several years in Latham & Watkins’ New York office before returning to Los Angeles in 1998.