Carla Moynihan

Carla Moynihan

Lecturer

Partner, Sherin and Lodgen LLP

BA, Connecticut College
JD, Boston University School of Law

Biography

Carla M. Moynihan is a partner in the real estate department at Sherin and Lodgen focusing on the disposition, acquisition, leasing, development, and financing of commercial real estate. Ms. Moynihan represents institutions, developers, retailers, individual investors, hospitals, medical professionals, hotels, state agencies, municipalities, and lenders in all aspects of commercial real estate transactions, including negotiating and drafting letters of intent; term sheets for financing; purchase and sale agreements; land disposition agreements; development agreements; leases for all asset types; architectural and construction contracts; and CMBS/CRE loan documents.

A portion of her practice is also devoted to representing developers throughout the permitting process at federal, state, and local levels under the MA Environmental Protection Act, the MA Wetlands Act, Chapter 91, the MA Historical Commission, and numerous local boards, including the Boston Board of Appeal, and the Boston Planning and Development Agency. Ms. Moynihan is a frequent author and lecturer on land use development and real estate transactional matters and is currently a lecturer at BU School of Law teaching contract drafting.

Professional Associations

  • Boston Bar Association, Former Co-chair of the Real Estate Section
  • International Council of Shopping Centers
  • NAIOP – Commercial Real Estate Development Association
  • Women in Transportation

Community Involvement

  • Boston University School of Law, Past President of Executive Committee
  • MA Appleseed Center for Law and Justice, Past President of Board of Directors

Honors and Awards

  • Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Top Women in Law (2017)
  • Ranked in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the area of real estate since 2012
  • Listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in the area of real estate law since 2013 (Copyright 2012 by Woodward/White, Inc., Aiken, SC)
  • Listed in Massachusetts Super Lawyers® in the area of real estate law since 2009 (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media Inc.)
  • AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated in Martindale-Hubbell™ in the areas of real estate, land use, environmental law, government, and transportation (Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings is a trademark. AV Preeminent is a certification mark of Reed Elsevier Properties, Inc.)
  • Boston University School of Law’s Young Lawyer’s Chair Award

Admissions

  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts
  • State of Connecticut
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Courses

LAW JD 788

Contract Drafting

3 credits

This course is the foundational skills course within the Transactional Law Program. It teaches students basic principles and skills of drafting and analyzing commercial and transaction agreements, with a focus on recognizing, and addressing through contractual provisions, key business issues in transactions. Although the course will be of particular interest to students interested in a corporate or transactional law practice, since most practicing attorneys will need to work with contracts at some point in their career, the concepts and skills which the course conveys are applicable to virtually all practice areas and specialties. While the course utilizes lectures to introduce various contract concepts and techniques essential for drafting and reviewing commercial and transaction agreements, it also requires that students complete both in-class exercises and out-of-class assignments as a means of building basic drafting skills and a solid understanding of the structure and operation of contractual provisions in a business transaction. The course also considers various ethical issues that may arise in the contract drafting and review process and in transactional practice generally. Grades will be based on class participation and graded drafting assignments. CLASS SIZE: 12 students. UPPER-CLASS WRITING REQUIREMENT/EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING REQUIREMENT: This course is a designated Professional Writing Course which may be used to partially satisfy the Upper-Class Writing Requirement (with a grade of B or higher) or the 6-credit Experiential Learning Requirement, but not both. GRADING NOTICE: This course does not offer the CR/NC/H option. ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENT: A student who fails to attend the first class or to obtain permission to be absent from either the instructor or the Registrar will be administratively dropped from the course. Students who are on the wait list are required to attend the first class to be considered for enrollment. Because the course involves regular in-class exercises, some of which are done in teams, and class participation is a significant component of a student's final grade, regular class attendance is essential and thus the course cannot accommodate flexibility in attendance.

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