Paul C. Bauer

Meeting a major deadline and protecting a deposit

Paul represented a large, regional real estate management company in the acquisition of a shopping center in New England. The client made a $1 million deposit as part of a bidding process and, if the deal didn’t close by a certain date and time, the deposit was forfeited. “We put a member of our team on the site of the project – three states away – and jumped through a lot of hoops, with people fanning out and getting what we needed to close. Our team did whatever it took.”

Lots of coordination keeps a major public utility project on track

A utility company client had a proposed project in western Massachusetts, when Paul got a call one afternoon that there was a key public hearing on the project at 6pm that evening…two hours from his office Boston. He immediately deployed a lawyer to handle the filing that afternoon. “Meanwhile, I got stuck in Boston traffic on my way to the hearing,” Paul explained. “So, one of our lawyers in Worcester said that he’d go since he was closer. I sent him talking points, the hearing went smoothly and the project moved forward.”

Other experience

Clients with real estate and other interests throughout Massachusetts and the U.S. rely on Paul’s candor, loyalty, business acumen and whatever-it-takes-to-close attitude. Here’s a brief list:

Life Sciences

• Publicly-traded global pharmaceutical company with leases in Boston, London and San Diego (170,000 sq. ft., 10-year lease for a building in an office park)
• Represents publicly traded global pharmaceutical companies with respect to leases and acquisitions for lab and office space in Boston, Cambridge and throughout the U.S., including:
  • one of the largest lease transactions in Boston’s history at 1.1 million square feet
  • facility acquisition with a nine figure purchase price
  • several long-term, total building leases of 100,000-250,000 square feet each
• Represents global nonprofit that focuses on tissue and organ transplantation, most recently with lease, purchase option and credit facility
• Represents seller of Seaport ground leased property
• Represents a medical school with respect to life science leases and real estate transactions totaling several hundred thousand square feet
• Represents a regional hospital with respect to leases, subleases, sales and acquisitions ranging in size from 5,000 square feet to 75,000 square feet
• Represents dozens of small and mid-sized life sciences companies throughout Massachusetts in complex leases for research and development, lab and office space ranging from 3,000 to 60,000 sq. ft.

Housing Development

• Closing of Multi-Lender Financing, including Affordable Housing Tax Credits Related to a 42-Unit Affordable Housing Development Project

Real Estate and General Corporate Transactions

• Equity management firm in the acquisition of membership interest in an out-of-state hotel
• Acquisition, sale and structuring related to Reverse 1031 Tax Deferred Exchange
• Large private nonprofit association in the development of its headquarters facility
• Hydroelectric company in restructuring a multi-use facility with a complex cross-easement agreement
• Represents one of Massachusetts top breweries (according to Beer Advocate) with acquisitions and expansions in three locations totaling more than 30,000 sq. ft. (and counting)
• Over the past three years, on behalf of a real estate investment firm, Paul has closed multiple complex multi-million-dollar acquisitions for mixed-use and industrial properties with a total valuation of approximately $60 million and a total size of approximately 500,000 square feet

Higher Education

• UMass and its affiliates in a variety of real estate matters related primarily to its Worcester campus and adjacent life science buildings
• Affiliates of a public university in real estate transactions
• Private university in telecom and other technology agreements related to its campus
• Leasing transactions for another higher education institution
• Public entity for its higher education facilities – financing, development, construction and management activities – in coordination with a team of Bowditch attorneys
• General Counsel to Massachusetts State College Building Authority as to all corporate matters and real estate transactions