"My role as a transactional lawyer is to evaluate and accomplish my client's objectives expertly and efficiently. In some cases, that may mean analyzing with the client what those objectives are. In almost all cases, it means thinking strategically with the client about an appropriate legal structure, the legal, political and community processes and other factors necessary to successfully accomplish the transaction and then carrying out the negotiating, drafting and detailed tasks needed to achieve the objective. In addition to knowing the law and being able to draft documents, a transactional lawyer must be a strategist, a counselor, an advocate, an organizer, a mediator, and a closer."

Kathryn Cochrane Murphy has extensive experience in every aspect of commercial real estate transactions. She represents developers, business and non-profit owners, governmental agencies and institutional lenders in acquisitions, dispositions, permitting, financings, design and construction contracts, procurement matters, leasing, ground leases, and condominium matters. She has frequently structured and carried out the legal aspects of complex, mixed-use developments, including the drafting and negotiation of development agreements and land disposition agreements on behalf of institutional and governmental land owners. She represents banks and other lenders in connection with construction and permanent financings and has handled foreclosures, workouts and note purchases and sales for a national bank.

Kathy has a special interest and experience in representing educational institutions in connection with real estate, permitting and procurement matters. She has advised governmental agencies on development projects and design and construction contracts, and has drafted new ordinances and statutory provisions for governmental units and businesses.

Kathy graduated from Yale College, cum laude, and Boston College Law School, magna cum laude. She is a member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, a member and former steering committee member of New England Women in Real Estate (NEWIRE) and a member of the Urban Land Institute. She is a Trustee of the Emerald Necklace Conservancy and the YWCA Boston and an Honorary Trustee of the Boston Children's Museum. She has served as a panelist on the ALI/ABA Modern Real Estate Transactions and Commercial Leasing courses and has contributed to the ABA Mortgage Foreclosure book and the State-by-State Guide to Commercial Real Estate Leases.

Kathryn Cochrane Murphy, Partner
Krokidas & Bluestein LLP
600 Atlantic Avenue
Boston, MA 02210
617.482.7211 p
617.482.7212 f

kmurphy@kb-law.com