Joel J. Feinberg

Practice areas:
Real Estate Development and Finance

Bar admission:
Maryland, 1978; Massachusetts, 1986

Education:
J.D., cum laude, New York University School of Law, 1978.

B.A., with honors, John Hopkins University, 1974. Member, Phi Beta Kappa.

Joel's practice concentrates in real estate. He has represented buyers and sellers, landlords and tenants, borrowers and lenders, debtors and creditors, developers and government agencies. His expertise extends to the most recent trends in real estate finance and the tax-related issues which often are part of real estate transactions.

Increasingly, Joel's services have been sought by community development corporations and nonprofit organizations, as well as Massachusetts state agencies and institutional lenders, in community development and affordable housing transactions. He is often involved in multi-party transactions involving layers of public and private debt and equity, as well as the use of governmental programs and tax incentives.

Joel has been a seminar instructor on topics of real estate loan documentation and construction lending. He has been a speaker and moderator on panels dealing with real estate workouts, community reinvestment lending, public financing sources, and environmental law and is a contributing author to Real Estate Title Practice in Massachusetts published by Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education. Joel is on the board of and serves as counsel to YouthBuild Boston and has served on the board of Newton Community Development Foundation, a nonprofit owner and developer of affordable housing.

Joel lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Contact: jjf@bostonbusinesslaw.com

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