Martha S. Faigen

Senior Partner / Banking & Finance; Real Estate

Boston Office

617-880-3535

617-692-3535 fax

mfaigen@riemerlaw.com

Martha is a senior partner in the firm’s Banking and Finance area. She primarily represents local and regional lenders in a variety of commercial real estate mortgage, acquisition and refinance, and construction loan transactions in Massachusetts and other states, and assists lenders and counsel lending in Massachusetts with review of Massachusetts real estate issues. As part of her practice, Martha also reviews and advises on real estate and title insurance issues, purchase and sale transactions, and zoning opinions for developers and lending institutions.

Representative Transactions

• Represented lead lender in a participated $67 million refinance loan to a major hotel in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Representation of several area lenders for numerous construction loans to regional developers of stores for national pharmacy chain
• Representation of lenders for multi-million dollar mortgage loans to developers for construction of retail chain stores in Quincy, Massachusetts
• Ongoing representation of lender for construction and refinance loans to national storage facility operator
• Assist national lender in preparation of mortgages and review of title issues for multi-state collateral loans

In The News

• Faigen of Riemer & Braunstein LLP: Changes in real estate practice - looking back - As a practicing woman attorney in commercial real estate finance for more than thirty years, Martha Faigen has witnessed first-hand the many positive changes that have taken place in the real estate industry, as greater numbers of women have entered the real estate arena and moved up the professional ladder.
  New England Real Estate Journal, November 25, 2011

Speaking Engagements

• Panelist, Participations and Syndications, Greater Boston Real Estate Board/Real Estate Finance Association, October 2011
• Panelist, Current Ethical Issues in the Practice of Real Estate Law, Boston Bar Association Continuing Legal Education, October 2010

Affiliations

American Bar Association

Boston Bar Association: Real Estate Finance Committee Co-Chair

Greater Boston Real Estate Board/Real Estate Finance Association

Massachusetts Bar Association

New England Women in Real Estate

Women's Bar Association

Admissions

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1978

State of New York, 2010

Education

Boston University School of Law, J.D., 1978

Brown University, A.B., 1975