Boras, Kim N. A.

Kim N. A. Boras

Partner

kim.boras@lw.com
    Boras, Kim N. A.

    Kim N. A. Boras

    Partner

    kim.boras@lw.com
    Women of Influence: Attorneys

    Los Angeles Business Journal 2023

    Profile

    Kim Boras leads the Real Estate Practice in Los Angeles, and draws on nearly three decades of experience to advise clients on real estate financings, acquisitions and dispositions, as well as major leasing transactions.

    Ms. Boras represents clients on all sides of commercial real estate matters, including lenders and borrowers, purchasers and sellers, landlords and tenants. She handles matters involving a variety of asset classes including:

    • Office buildings
    • Hotels
    • Industrial buildings
    • Retail properties
    • Hospitals and non-profit institutions
    • Educational facilities
    • Sports arenas
    • Assemblages

    Ms. Boras leverages her experience with nearly every type of real estate transaction, strong working relationships within the real estate industry, and with colleagues in related practice areas to help clients efficiently execute complex transactions.

    Her financing work includes the full range of real estate secured finance structures, as well as restructuring loans, and negotiating workouts.

    She negotiates major commercial leases and subleases on behalf of both landlords and tenants in the office, retail, entertainment, and industrial space.

    Ms. Boras also regularly works with land use, corporate, and finance colleagues to advise on the real estate aspects of development, mergers and acquisitions, corporate banking, and secured bond transactions.

    Experience

    Ms. Boras’ representative work includes:

    Sales, Acquisitions, Dispositions

    • A major sports franchise in its acquisition of a site for a contemplated new stadium
    • A university in its acquisition of adjacent county-owned property for the expansion of the university campus
    • The sale of a historically landmarked property in Venice converted to creative office space

    Financing

    Advising lenders and borrowers on single asset and multiple property portfolio real estate financings, including mortgage, mezzanine and securitized financings, as well as participations and syndications secured by a range of property types.

    Clients include an array of major domestic and foreign investment banks, commercial banks and private equity funds as lenders, and various corporate entities as borrowers.

    Leasing

    • A non-profit museum entity in the ground leasing of the site for its new museum and related facilities within a larger park campus
    • USC in its long-term ground lease of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and Sports Arena from a Joint Powers Authority composed of the State of California, the County of Los Angeles, and the City of Los Angeles
    • USC in its ground lease of the Sports Arena site to the Los Angeles Football Club for the development of a new soccer stadium facility
    • A community hospital in its ground lease of its new hospital facility from the County of Los Angeles, as well as negotiating the financing used to obtain equipment and initial operating funds

    Qualifications

    Bar Qualification

    • California
    • New York

    Education

    • JD, Harvard Law School
    • BA, Rollins College

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