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Timothy M. Smith

Partner; Member of Firm's Executive Committee / Boston

Overview

Timothy M. Smith is a senior partner in Nutter's Real Estate Department and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Both public and private companies rely on Tim’s 38 years of experience in real estate acquisition, disposition, leasing, joint venture, and financing transactions. Tim also represents clients in land use and permitting matters, including subdivision, environmental, wetlands, and zoning issues.

National and regional real estate owners and developers rely on Tim in the acquisition, financing, and disposition of properties across all asset classes, including office, industrial, manufacturing, laboratory, and retail.

Institutional landlords and corporate tenants engage Tim to represent them in leases of office space (including headquarters leases), warehouse and industrial space, laboratory, research and development buildings, and manufacturing facilities. Institutional landlords utilize Tim’s expertise in retail leases of shopping centers, lifestyle centers, enclosed malls, and mixed-use buildings.

Tim continues his leadership outside of the firm as an active member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), and the Boston College Alumni Association. He speaks and writes frequently on real estate issues for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (MCLE). He is the author of MCLE’s Commercial Lease Forms, published in 2004. He also authored a chapter of Lease Drafting in Massachusetts, also published by MCLE.

Tim is a 1987 graduate of Boston College Law School, where he was a note editor of The Boston College Law Review. While obtaining his undergraduate business degree in both Finance and Marketing in 1984 from Boston College, he was elected to the Beta Gamma Sigma and Alpha Sigma Nu honor societies.

Experience

Experience

  • Berkeley Partners

    Represented Berkeley Partners in the acquisition of approximately 50 different properties in MA, RI, NJ + PA, including the acquisition, assemblage, permitting, financing + sale of a multi-parcel tract in Chelsea, MA.

  • Oxford Properties Group

    Represented Oxford Properties Group, as landlord, on leasing and property management matters at 125 Summer Street, Boston, MA (office + first floor retail), 225 Franklin Street, Boston, MA (office + first floor retail), 745 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, MA (office + first floor retail), and 645 and 649-653 Summer Street, Boston, MA (office, research and development + lab use).

  • Invesco Real Estate

    Represented Invesco Real Estate, as landlord, on leases for office and ground floor retail space at the following properties: 55 Cambridge Parkway, Cambridge, MA, 84 State Street, Boston, MA, 40 Broad Street, Boston, MA, 22 Boston Wharf, Boston, MA, and various buildings (office + retail use) on Thomson Place in the Fort Point Channel District of Boston, MA.

  • Tishman Speyer and Breakthrough Properties

    Represented Tishman Speyer and Breakthrough Properties, as ground tenant, in connection with three separate ground leases for Phase A of the Enterprise Research Campus, which is owned by an entity owned and controlled by Harvard University. Space to be subleased for office + lab space, hotel + residential uses.

  • Boston Scientific Corporation (Maple Grove, MN)

    Represented Boston Scientific Corporation, as tenant, in connection with the lease, with option to purchase, for 400,000 SF of space over a 20-year term for a build-to-suit headquarters office and laboratory facility in Maple Grove, MN, and in the subsequent acquisition by BSC of the leased property, together with adjacent parcels, to form a new corporate headquarters campus.

  • Boston Scientific Corporation (Valencia Biomedical Park)

    Represented Boston Scientific Corporation, as tenant, on two separate long-term leases for approximately 350,000 SF of research and development, warehouse + office space in the Valencia Biomedical Park in Santa Clarita, CA.

  • Boston Scientific Corporation (Duluth, GA)

    Represented Boston Scientific Corporation, as tenant, in connection with lease for 210,000 SF of space for a laboratory facility in Duluth, GA.

  • The Seyon Group

    Represented The Seyon Group in the acquisition and financing (as borrower) of approximately 40 properties in MA, NH, RI, CT, NJ, PA + MD.

  • Hilco Global

    Represented Hilco Global, as landlord, in leases in MA, IL, NJ, PA + FL, including the lease of warehouse and distribution property in Hamilton Township, NJ to Dynamic Marketing, Inc. for a total of 846,800 SF of space.

  • Heitman Capital

    Represented Heitman Capital, as landlord, on leases in downtown office buildings with first floor retail at 260 Franklin Street and 28 State Street in Boston, as well as retail leases at shopping centers in NH, TN + SC.

  • Spaulding and Slye Investments

    Represented Spaulding and Slye Investments, in the acquisition and financing of two industrial warehouse properties in Austin and New Braunfel, TX.

  • Berkeley Partners (portfolio loan)

    Represented Berkeley Partners, as borrower, in connection with a portfolio loan from Morgan Stanley, secured in part by 11 properties in MA.

  • Berkeley Partners (loan transactions)

    Represented Berkeley Partners, as borrower, on separate loan transactions for approximately 30 properties located in MA, NJ, PA + MD.

  • Wheelock Street Capital and Camber Development

    Represented Wheelock Street Capital and Camber Development, as borrower, on two separate portfolio loans for industrial warehouse assets located in MA.

  • Wheelock Street Capital and Foxfield LLC

    Represented Wheelock Street Capital and Foxfield LLC joint venture in the acquisition from RREEF of a 14-building office portfolio located in various New England states.

  • Foxfield LLC

    Represented Foxfield LLC in a joint venture formation with Taymil Partners for the borrower financing and acquisition of three multifamily apartment complexes in Beverly, MA.

  • Revitty, Inc.

    Represented Revitty, Inc., as tenant, in connection with corporate headquarters lease for building in Waltham, MA and leases at satellite locations.

News & Insights

News

Honors

Honors

  • Chambers USA, Leading U.S. Real Estate Attorney, 2017-2025
  • The Best Lawyers in America, 2008-2026
  • Massachusetts Super Lawyers, 2004-2020, 2023-2025
  • Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition, 2009 and 2010
  • Super Lawyers Business Edition, 2011-2015

Education & Admissions

Education

Boston College Law School, J.D., magna cum laude, Order of the Coif
Boston College, B.S., summa cum laude

Admissions

  • Massachusetts

Industries

Industry Expertise

Tim continues his leadership outside the firm as an active member of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), and the Boston College Alumni Association.

Noteworthy

  • Chambers USA, Leading U.S. Real Estate Attorney, 2017-2025
  • The Best Lawyers in America, 2008-2026
  • Massachusetts Super Lawyers, 2004-2020, 2023-2025
  • Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Edition, 2009 and 2010
  • Super Lawyers Business Edition, 2011-2015
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