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Lisa J. Connolly

Attorney

Lisa Connolly is a Denver-based transactional real estate attorney who advises her clients on acquisitions, dispositions, financings, leasing, encumbrances and post-closing matters across commercial portfolios located nationwide.

Lisa represents real estate investment trusts and other capital providers in the acquisition, disposition, leasing, financing, and sale-leaseback of commercial real estate. Her work spans due diligence (title and survey, zoning, organizational documents, and risk management), drafting and negotiating real estate and finance documentation, facilitating complex closings and post‑closing servicing, and portfolio management across traditional asset classes in the retail, industrial, office, mixed-use, and multi-family sectors.

Earlier in her career, Lisa represented national and regional lenders in permanent and construction real estate financings and loan workouts, equity investors in low-income housing tax credit transactions, and publicly traded companies, property owners and developers in the acquisition and development of commercial properties. She is admitted to practice in Colorado and New Mexico and is active in her local bar association and leadership within the Colorado Bar Association Real Estate Section.

  • Represents national and regional lenders in a variety of multimillion-dollar commercial loan transactions, including loan originations and refinances involving permanent and construction loan financing secured by commercial real estate.
  • Assists a team of attorneys in the representation of a publicly-traded, triple net lease REIT in the acquisition, disposition, and servicing of its commercial real estate projects located throughout the United States.
  • Served on a team of attorneys representing equity investors in the financing of affordable housing projects utilizing low-income housing tax credits
  • Represented national and regional lenders in commercial loan workouts through loan modifications, forbearances and foreclosures.
  • Served on a team of attorneys in the representation of publicly traded specialty REIT in the acquisition and development of its unique, multimillion-dollar commercial real estate projects, including megaplex movie theaters and early childhood education facilities, located throughout the United States.
  • Represented publicly traded REIT in the acquisition of a 270,200 square foot, multi-tenant, industrial distribution center located in Greenville, SC.
  • Assisted in the representation of publicly traded REIT in the in the acquisition of a shopping center located in Narragansett, RI.
  • Represented developer in the acquisition of vacant land for use as a parking lot.
  • Represented developer in the acquisition of platted residential lots.

  • Super Lawyers®, Rising Stars, 2018-2019