Yareni (Yari) Sanchez
Associate
Boston
ysanchez@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 3564Yareni (Yari) Sanchez
Associate, Boston
ysanchez@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 3564Related Expertise
Clients navigating real estate development projects use Yari Sanchez’s valuable assistance from concept to completion. When developing mixed-use, office, retail, institutional or multi-family residential properties, Yari helps with permitting, zoning, acquisition, disposition, and financing. Her work often involves complex projects such as multi-phased, master-planned developments, office/labspace projects, and ground lease developments.
Yari serves a diverse group of clients including public and private companies, joint ventures, general and limited partnerships, foreign investors, private and charitable foundations, and public-private partnerships. Contributing to the success of many significant projects, Yari has worked on iconic developments such as Boston’s Seaport Square and Cambridge Crossing developments[DS1] (#_msocom_1) . Through her varied work, she is familiar with the special concerns particular to many industry sectors, such as higher education, health care, residential, and real estate development in general.
Applying a Legislative and Community Relations Lense
To provide clients with the best possible legal advice, Yari draws upon her work as a former legislative aide and community liaison for the New York City Council, including for the Office of Speaker Christine C. Quinn. In this capacity, she worked on government-side permitting for real estate developments, taking account of community concerns and business development goals for the district she served, and meeting with developers, business owners, and other community leaders.
Leading the Way Towards the Future
With a commitment to helping future leaders in the field, Yari is a teaching assistant at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design for a course entitled: “Creating Real Estate Ventures: A Legal Perspective.” Serving for many years, she helps plan the coursework, interacting with students and running realistic mock negotiations in a classroom setting.
Also committed to supporting the broader community, Yari provides volunteer legal assistance to Kids In Need of Defense (“KIND”) an organization providing high-quality legal services to children in immigration court proceedings, as well as social support services.
Yari is fluent in Spanish.
Related Representative Matters
A privately-owned real estate investment firm with all aspects of a complex development project. The firm handles all of the real estate, land use, acquisition, development, master planning, environmental and financing aspects of this immense project which includes 18 parcels across 5.2 million square feet of development property, including 2 million square feet of commercial space, and 3 million square feet of residential space, lab space, office, multi-family, retail, a park and public amenities.
A Canadian private equity real estate fund and public company in connection with securitizations and financing as well as joint venture equity investments and loans to acquire and develop properties.
A high-net worth family business in connection with the separation of corporate interests with real estate assets across the United States. Assisted the client with drafting agreements effecting redemption of interests, as well as all other related documentation.
One of the world’s leading hospitals in connection with land use and zoning matter involving a variance application.
Clients in connection with the formation, regulatory approvals, and funding options for public-private partnerships to create public open space, including representing the Trustees of the Reservations in pursuing a destination park along Boston’s historic waterfront.
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Accolades
- Nominated and selected as a 2025 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellow
- CREW Boston Networking Award, 400 Summer Street Project, 2024
- Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, 2024 Up & Coming Lawyer
- Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch (2024-2026): Real Estate
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2022-2024
- Nominated and selected as a 2020 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinder, enabling her to participate in a professional development and networking program that includes general and in-house counsel from leading global and nationwide companies.
Affiliations
- Summer Search Boston, current Board Member and former Associate Board Co-Chair for organization that provides personal development and full-time mentoring opportunities to low-income high school students, paving the way for a 100 percent high school graduation rate and a nearly 70 percent college graduation rate (compared to just 20 percent for their similarly-situated peers).
- Boston Bar Association, Real Estate Section Steering Committee, Member
- Urban Land Institute, Member
Admissions
- Massachusetts
Education
Boston University School of Law ( J.D. , 2015 )
Columbia University ( B.A. , 2009 )