Rebecca is a preeminent commercial real estate lawyer and Chair of the firm’s Real Estate Development Practice. She skillfully steers developers, lenders, companies, and nonprofit organizations through a wide array of real estate transactions and matters. She has particular expertise in land use law and development permitting in the Greater Boston area, and frequently draws upon her earlier experience as chief of staff / special counsel to the director of the Boston Redevelopment Authority — now known as the Boston Planning & Development Agency.

In addition to development permitting at the federal, state, and local levels, her practice encompasses a broad range of acquisitions/dispositions, condominium creation, and financing, including matters that involve historic preservation and tax-incentive elements. She has deep experience with development projects involving public/private partnerships and the negotiation of ground leases with public agencies and authorities.

Rebecca has served as project counsel for the new 972-bed dormitory now under construction at the Wentworth Institute of Technology; the Omni Hotel in Boston’s Seaport District and the Canopy by Hilton Hotel near Haymarket, as well as affordable housing projects such as 88 Hudson Street, 66 Hudson Street and 288 Harrison in Chinatown, 140 Clarendon Street in the Back Bay neighborhood, and the Mosaic project in Mission Hill. She represented a nonprofit organization that is the Commonwealth’s largest provider of emergency shelter in acquiring new shelter locations in Boston and Lawrence, and served as project counsel for Dorchester Bay City, which will comprise 6.2 million square feet of office, laboratory, residential, and retail, cultural and restaurant uses, and five major open space areas, in the Columbia Point area of Boston. She is also an avid baseball fan and regularly participates as a pianist in the Chamber Music Conference of the East held each summer.

Rebecca is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; a member of the Advisory Committee for the Asian Community Fund of The Boston Fund; a member of the Board of Directors of A Better City; and a member of the Planning and Policy Committee of Boston Harbor Now, the area’s premier waterfront advocacy organization. She is also on the Steering Committee for Ricesticks and Tea, Boston’s only emergency food pantry serving culturally appropriate food to indigent Asian-American households.

She is a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, received her JD from Yale Law School, an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School at Harvard University, and a BA, cum laude, from Brandeis University