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)
Recognition & Accomplishments
The Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law (Phoenix), 2024
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Credentials
Education
Columbia Law School (J.D. 1985)
Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar
Yale University (B.A., cum laude, 1982)
Admissions
Arizona
New York
Wisconsin