Louise B. Giannakis
Associate
Boston
lgiannakis@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 0512Louise B. Giannakis
Associate, Boston
lgiannakis@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 0512Related Expertise
Clients acquiring and developing multi-family, office, retail, hospital, hotel and mixed-use projects turn to Louise Giannakis for real estate development, and transactional advice.
Louise particularly enjoys navigating clients through complex mixed-use urban projects, helping move from bid to financing and acquisition, to development and ultimately to successful operations. Her practice also includes acquisitions and dispositions, borrower-financing, development reviews, and complex condominium documents and ground leases.
Across her diverse client roster, Louise works with commercial developers and operators of all kinds, multi-family housing, office and retail developers, REITs, private equity groups, hospitals, non-profits. She also has particularly unique public-private partnership experience from her ongoing pro bono representation of several of Boston’s most valuable stewards of public urban parks, including the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, the Esplanade Association and the Emerald Necklace Conservancy.
Louise is fluent in Spanish.
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Accolades
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2022-2025
Affiliations
- Boston Bar Association, Real Estate Steering Committee, Fundamentals Group Co-Chair
- Urban Land Institute, Member
- Esplanade Association, Member
- National Trust for Historic Preservation, Member
Admissions
- Massachusetts
Education
Boston College Law School ( J.D. , 2017 )
Tulane University ( B.A. , cum laude , 2011 )