Beth H. Mitchell

Beth H. Mitchell is a partner in Nutter’s Real Estate Department and co-chair of the Commercial and Real Estate Finance practice group. She has extensive experience in commercial real estate transactions locally, regionally and nationally, and through economic booms and recessions.

Financial institutions, investors, developers and other public and private entities rely on Beth to handle their financings, acquisitions, dispositions, leases, joint ventures, foreclosures and troubled debt restructurings. Beth’s practice encompasses, among other things, downtown office buildings, suburban office parks, mixed-use developments, hotels, health care institutions, retail complexes, industrial properties and not-for-profit uses.

Beth’s representative transactions include:

Financings

• Representation of an insurance company on multiple loans secured by student housing projects, totaling approximately $350 million, and secured by properties located throughout the United States.
• Representation of various insurance companies on financings of offices, laboratories, apartment buildings and hotels on long-term ground leases in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Representation of an insurance company on the financing of a self-storage facility in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Representation of a real estate developer on the $382 million construction loan financing of an office and laboratory building in Boston’s Seaport neighborhood subject to a ground lease to a public authority.
• Representation of a real estate developer on an approximately $46 million construction loan for the development of a market-rate and affordable housing condominium project in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Representation of a real estate developer on approximately $428 million of land loans and construction loans for the development of a life science-oriented campus in Somerville, Massachusetts.
• Representation of a real estate developer on a $28 million construction loan and $7 million mezzanine loan in connection with the development of a student housing project in Berkeley, California.
• Representation of a non-profit institution on the joint venture, ground lease and financing of an affordable housing development with a preference for veterans in Boston, Massachusetts.

Acquisitions and Dispositions

• Representation of a real estate company in the acquisition of multi-family properties in Peabody, Shrewsbury, Southborough, and Lynn, Massachusetts.
• Representation of a developer on the acquisition of property in Boston, Massachusetts for redevelopment as a mixed-use condominium.
• Representation of a family-owned business on the sale of multiple commercial buildings in Somerville, Massachusetts.
• Representation of an estate on the sale of multiple commercial buildings in suburban Boston, Massachusetts.
• Representation of non-profit institutions in the sale of various ground lease parcels in Boston, Massachusetts for a range of uses.

Leases

• Representation of a non-profit organization on the leasing of medical office space in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Representation of a charitable organization on the ground leasing of various properties in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Representation of a global company, as Massachusetts local counsel, on the leasing, as tenant, and permitting of a food and entertainment venue in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Representation of a non-profit organization on the sale/leaseback of an office building in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Representation of a retailer on the leasing of space in suburban Boston, Massachusetts.
• Representation of several banks, as tenants, in leasing bank branches and offices in Massachusetts, Florida and California.

Joint Ventures

• Representation of a borrower/developer in a joint venture with a preferred equity investor and the construction loan financing for a residential condominium project along the Rose Kennedy Greenway in Boston, Massachusetts.
• Representation of a real estate investor/developer on joint venture agreements and real estate investments in commercial development projects (including hotels) in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.
• Representation of a real estate investment company on joint venture agreements and investments in projects (including student housing) in California, Montana and North Carolina.
• Representation of a real estate developer on joint venture agreements involving the redevelopment of a mixed-use property in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Troubled Debt Restructurings

• Representation of lenders and special servicers in various troubled debt restructurings and foreclosures involving commercial real estate properties throughout the United States.
• Representation of one lender in a consortium of senior lenders in connection with a defaulted loan secured by a senior housing project, subject also to a defaulted mezzanine loan, resulting in the eventual sale of the loan to a third party.
• Representation of borrowers and lenders on loan modifications involving commercial office buildings throughout the United States.
• Representation of borrowers on deeds-in-lieu, discounted payoffs, and short-sales involving commercial properties throughout the United States.

Other Matters

• Representation of a real estate developer in the creation of a reciprocal easement agreement among various ground lease parcels for the development of a mixed-use residential, garage and hotel development in the Seaport district of Boston, Massachusetts.
• Representation of a redevelopment authority in the acquisition of a former military base from the United States Navy pursuant to the Base Redevelopment and Closure (BRAC) process, the creation of a new form-based zoning by-law for the former base, the negotiation of a disposition and development agreement with a private developer, the transfer of portions of the former base to the developer and the issuance of various permits and approvals for the redevelopment of portions of the former base.

Beth serves as the Secretary of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL). She is a past President of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys (ACMA) and past President of the Real Estate & Finance Association (RE&FA), a division of the Greater Boston Real Estate Board.

Beth is a member of the Boston Bar Association, the past Clerk of the Real Estate Bar Association, where she previously served as co-chair of its Commercial Real Estate Finance Committee, and a member of The Abstract Club. Beth is a contributing author to Crocker’s Notes on Common Forms, published by MCLE, and the Massachusetts Conveyancers’ Handbook with Forms. She also frequently writes and lectures on real estate topics.

Honors

• Chambers USA, Leading U.S. Real Estate Attorney, 2004-2025
• The Best Lawyers in America, 2006-2026
• Lawdragon 500 Leading Real Estate Lawyers, 2025
• Lawdragon 500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers, 2024
• Connect CRE, 2023 & 2025 Lawyers in Real Estate Award, 2023, 2025
• Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, “2021 Top Women of Law”
• BTI Client Service All-Star, 2022
• Who's Who Legal: Real Estate, 2011-2025
• Massachusetts Super Lawyers, 2004-2025; Super Lawyers Business Edition, 2011-2013; Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition, 2009 & 2010

Education

Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., cum laude, Order of the Coif
Yale University, B.A., cum laude

Admissions

• U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts
• Massachusetts