Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• Spanish

Lawyer Overview

Patricia Devlin concentrates in the area of commercial real estate with an emphasis on finance, development, and land use issues. Ms. Devlin has extensive experience in structuring, negotiating and documenting a wide variety of real property transactions, including exchanges, acquisitions, resort development, time share and commercial leases.

Some examples of her recent work include:

• Represents various major hotel companies in the sale, purchase and operations of their Hawaii properties.
• Negotiates and documents hotel management contracts.

• Represents various lenders in connection with Hawaii resort properties.
• Ongoing representation of major Hawaii bank in documenting and restructuring various real property loans.
• Represented consortium of banks in due diligence and securing interests in more than 50 separate properties in a $160 million financing.
• Served as local counsel for lenders in $750 million credit facility.

• Represented major Hawaiian landowner in several large 1031 exchanges. Replacement properties consisted of office buildings, shopping centers, industrial parks and hotels.
• Represented family trusts in negotiation and documentation of a combination ground lease / 1031 exchange of Honolulu property for development as a shopping center, office tower and residential condominium and in the acquisition of mainland shopping center and industrial warehouse as replacement properties.

• Represented developer in high rise residential projects within the Kakaako Special Design District.
• Represented developer of industrial parks in Hawaii and California; dealt with wetlands issues and improvement district bond financing.
• Represented developer of golf course and industrial park in California.
• Represented developer of affordable housing projects.

• Represented shopping center owner in leasing, ongoing operations, refinancing, and sale of shopping center.
• Developed lease forms for in-line tenants at three major shopping centers.

• Represent client in acquisition of a new golf course, construction of a club house and development of a gated residential community.
• Represented buyer in acquisitions of four mainland golf courses.

• Land Use Represented several Hawaii property owners on land use issues.

Areas of Practice

• Real Estate, Land Use & Hospitality

West Practice Categories

Real Estate Law, Contracts, Banking & Finance Law, Business Organizations

Bar Admissions

• California
• Hawaii
• U.S. District Court District of Hawaii

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Hawaii State Bar Association (Member)
• American Bar Association (Member)
• Hawaii Society of Corporate Planners (Past President)
• Hawaii Chamber of Commerce (Past President, Land Use Committee)
• State Bar of California

Education

• University of California, Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, California
  J.D.
• University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
  B.A.
  Honors: magna cum laude
  Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
  Major: Latin American Studies

Address

ASB Tower
Suite 2200
1001 Bishop Street
Honolulu, HI 96813

Phones

808.523.2522

Faxes

808.523.0842

Emails

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Websites

http://www.carlsmith.com