Richard A. Toelke

Partner

Richard A. Toelke represents developers, institutional property owners, real estate investment firms, real estate investment trusts (REITs), lenders, and other owners and operators of real estate in all aspects of transactional real estate practice. He works on a wide variety of transactions both regionally and nationally, including acquisitions and dispositions of office, industrial, research and development, life sciences, and multifamily properties; leasing transactions; equity and debt financing arrangements; joint ventures; and development projects.

Rich is the former co-leader of the firm's real estate practice and 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.

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  • Represents Berkshire Residential Investments and CBRE Investment Management as lead real estate counsel on acquisitions, financings, and dispositions of multifamily apartment complexes throughout the United States
  • Represented 3650 REIT in a preferred equity investment in a portfolio of 21 multifamily apartment communities located throughout the Southeastern United States
  • Represented Berkeley Investments in the acquisition, leasing, debt and equity financing, and redevelopment and subsequent disposition of a portfolio of historic brick and beam warehouse buildings in the Fort Point Channel District neighborhood of the Seaport section of Boston, Massachusetts, consisting of office buildings, a residential condominium project, a multifamily rental project, and featuring several high-end restaurants
  • Villanova University School of Law, 1989, Juris Doctor
  • Boston College, 1986, Bachelor of Arts
  • Massachusetts
  • Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, Real Estate Law, Boston (2008–2020, 2022–2026)

Recommended, Real estate, The Legal 500 US (2016, 2018–2021)

Top Lawyer, Boston Magazine (2021)

Ranked, Real Estate, Chambers USA (2005, 2007, 2011–2017)

Member, Practice Group of the Year, Tax, Law360 (2017)

Recognized, Who’s Who Legal (2016)

Recognized, Massachusetts Super Lawyers (2005, 2011–2013)

Member, Boston Bar Association

Member, Massachusetts Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Member, National Association of Office and Industrial Properties

Member, Real Estate Finance Association