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Rachel E. D. Churchill
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Rachel E. D. Churchill

Special Counsel

617.449.6559
Boston
rchurchill@mccarter.com

Rachel Churchill assists clients with their real estate needs, including handling financing, acquisitions and dispositions, land use analysis and advocacy, leasing and related matters. In serving clients as diverse as financial institutions, private equity funds, private developers, state agencies, universities, non-profit organizations, and cultural institutions, she also draws on her experience with complex corporate debt and equity financings, start-up funding, general corporate structuring and governance matters, and public finance offerings.

Her extensive public finance experience includes the structuring and facilitation of a variety of tax-exempt bond transactions. She has served as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, borrower’s counsel, and issuer’s counsel, among other capacities. Her public finance work has focused on debt issuances to support 501(c)(3) organizations, such as colleges and universities, secondary schools, cultural institutions, and other charitable organizations. She has also served as counsel for various public authorities related to their bond issuances.

Active in the pro bono legal community, Rachel assists not-for-profit entities with various transactional matters, serves veterans as an accredited representative before the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, and serves indigent residential tenants in housing matters through a partnership with the Boston Bar Association’s Volunteer Lawyers Project. While at Suffolk University Law School, Rachel represented clients as a Rule 3:03 certified attorney in the university’s Housing and Consumer Protection Clinic.

Rachel is an elected member of her town’s legislative body. Rachel’s community involvement has also included serving on the board of Berkshire Family and Individual Resources and of the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Alumni Association. She has been recognized for her public service work as a recipient of the AmeriCorps Service Scholarship, the Paul Tsongas Scholarship, and the Calvin Coolidge Memorial Foundation Public Service Scholarship, and as the inaugural recipient of the MCLA Young Alumni award.

Representative Matters

People’s United Bank—Main street lending program loan

Represented People’s United Bank, National Association in closing a term loan—issued as a Nonprofit Organization New Loan Facility under the Federal Reserve’s Main Street Lending Program—to a major New England nonprofit institution to further its nonprofit mission during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Best Lawyers in America, Ones to Watch, Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law, Massachusetts, 2021–2022
Ranking Disclaimers: No aspect of this advertisement has been approved by the Supreme Court of New Jersey. For The Best Lawyers in America methodology, see https://www.bestlawyers.com/methodology.

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Real Estate
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Education

Suffolk University Law School JD, magna cum laude, 2009
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Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts BA, summa cum laude, 2006

Bar Admissions

Massachusetts

Court Admissions

U.S. District CourtDistrict of Massachusetts

Memberships & Certifications

American Bar Association

Berkshire Family and Individual Resources
Board Member, 2005‒2006

Boston Bar Association

CoreNet Global
New England Chapter

Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts Alumni Association
Board Member, 2011‒2017

National Association of Bond Lawyers

NAIOP Massachusetts

LawVision LPM Institute
Legal Project Management Certification

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The Best Lawyers in America Recognizes 153 McCarter Attorneys in 2023 Referral Guide; Names Four “Lawyer of the Year”
The Best Lawyers in America
8.19.2022
Media item displaying How Some States Are Slowing Commercial Property Evictions
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How Some States Are Slowing Commercial Property Evictions
Law360
5.11.2020
Media item displaying Several Northeast, Mid-Atlantic States Address Commercial Evictions During COVID-19 Pandemic
Publications|Alert
Several Northeast, Mid-Atlantic States Address Commercial Evictions During COVID-19 Pandemic
Coronavirus Legal Advisory
4.28.2020
covid-19
Publications|Alert
Negotiating Purchase and Sale Agreements During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Real Estate Alert
3.27.2020
Insights News Contract Stack
Publications|Alert
Reminder: June 30 Deadline for Mandatory Filing by US Companies with 10% or More Foreign Ownership
Corporate Alert
6.27.2018
Insights Awards Stars
News|Recognition
The Bond Buyer Ranks McCarter & English in Top Five for Bond Counsel for 2018
The Bond Buyer
2.22.2018
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