Richard A. Toelke

Rich is the co-leader of the firm's real estate practice has been identified as one of Boston’s best real estate lawyers in Chambers USA, Best Lawyers in America, and Super Lawyers. Before joining Morgan Lewis, Rich was a partner in the corporate practice at another international law firm, where he was deputy co-chair of their real estate practice group.

• Represents the Berkshire Group and CBRE Global Investors as lead real estate counsel on their acquisitions and financing of multifamily apartment complexes throughout the United States.
• Represented Keurig and Green Mountain Coffee Roasters in the negotiation of a build-to-suit headquarters campus lease comprised of three buildings of Class A office, research and development, and laboratory space totaling over 600,000 square-feet in Burlington, Massachusetts.
• Represented Berkeley Investments and a group of investors in the acquisition, financing, and redevelopment of the Waltham Watch Factory, a historic mill complex on the Charles River in Waltham, Massachusetts into a three-phase mixed use project consisting of Class A office, multifamily housing, and retail uses.
• Represented DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners in a joint venture with a development partner in the development of Starboard Place, a 54-unit residential condominium building in the Charlestown Navy Yard, developed on a long-term ground leasehold parcel owned by the Boston Redevelopment Authority. 
• Represent Berkeley Investments in the acquisition, leasing, debt and equity financing, and continued redevelopment of a portfolio of historic brick and beam warehouse buildings in the Fort Point Channel District neighborhood of the Seaport section of Boston, Massachusetts, into a mixed-use portfolio, consisting of office buildings, a residential condominium project, a multifamily rental project, and featuring several high-end restaurants.