Kevin J. Lyons

Senior Partner / Banking & Finance

Boston and New York Offices

617-880-3433

617-692-3433 fax

klyons@riemerlaw.com

Kevin's practice concentrates on real estate, corporate, and asset-based finance, with particular attention to structured, project, and construction finance matters and the resolution of problem loans. He frequently consults with and advises financial institutions and lending syndicates in all types of financial matters, including underwriting and facility structuring, collateral enhancement and risk mitigation, covenant requirements, and agency and co-lender rights and remedies. He has extensive experience representing lenders in the restructure, resolution, and liquidation of problem loan situations, including an extended term as designated counsel to various workout groups of a national banking client of the firm handling adversarial workouts, modifications, and troubled debt restructures.

Kevin has been a speaker on numerous educational and professional panels. Among them are several Boston Bar Association panels on the real estate finance market and various legal education seminars on real estate finance.

Representative Transactions

• Represented agent in subscription secured financing for a real estate investment fund
• Represented agent in real estate secured revolving credit facilities for a retail public UPREIT
• Represented lender in deed-in-lieu and settlement of loan secured by a retail/entertainment/office complex
• Represented agent in financing for waterfront portfolio acquisition
• Representation of agent in forbearance and restructuring of condominium construction loan
• Represented lender in workout of loan secured by hotel and restaurant chain
• Represented agent in structured finance facilities for a national real estate master partnership
• Represented agent in revolving line of credit for public REIT
• Represented lender in build-to-suit warehouse facility for national retailer
• Represented agent in working capital and term credit facilities for a national REIT
• Representation of lender in note sale and settlement of real estate loan secured by multi-use project

In The News

• Kevin Lyons speaks at NAIOP event - Kevin Lyons spoke at NAIOP’s January seminar, "Lending in the Commonwealth - What to Expect in 2009." Kevin was quoted in Banker & Tradesman on what lenders are currently looking for in interest rates.  He also discussed why lenders are cautious about syndicated loans now.
  Banker & Tradesman Daily, January 15, 2009
  Mission Recognition (Solomon McCown blog), January 16, 2009

Affiliations

American Bar Association

International Council of Shopping Centers

Massachusetts Bar Association

National Association of Industrial and Office Properties

New York Bar Association

Real Estate Finance Association

Admissions

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1989

U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1990

State of New York, 2005

Education

Boston College Law School, J.D., cum laude, 1989

Boston College, B.A. cum laude, 1986