Karen DaCosta Perzan

Of Counsel
Phoenix

Karen DaCosta Perzan counsels real estate owners, investors and users find creative, efficient, cost-effective solutions to their business challenges—from acquiring, financing and leasing office, industrial, healthcare and educational related properties to managing the disposition of assets, facilitating a new use for a property or leveraging an incentive program.

Karen has been involved on the buy and sell side of transactions involving including large-scale portfolios. Karen represents both landlords and tenants in leasing transactions and lease portfolio issues. She counsels borrowers in financing transactions, including those involving the EB-5 program.

Experience 

Representative Matters

  • Represented national impact investment facilities fund in real estate acquisitions, leasing matters, and borrowing transactions across the country
  • Represented a national landlord in the leasing of office tower and suburban office properties
  • Represented international Fortune 500 tenant in leasing of numerous industrial, warehouse and office properties across the country

Professional Highlights

Professional Activities

Hispanic National Bar Association (2008-present)

Los Abogados (2018-present)

AZ CREW (Arizona Commercial Real Estate Women) (2017-present), Special Events Committee (2019-present)

Credentials 

Education

Columbia Law School (J.D. 1985)
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar

Yale University (B.A., cum laude, 1982)

Admissions

Arizona

New York

Wisconsin