Melissa Rivers
The law firm of McLane Middleton is pleased to welcome attorney Melissa S. Rivers as a Director in the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group.
Melissa represents developers, landlords, and tenants in the transactions that shape commercial real estate, with a particular focus on retail and mixed-use development and leasing. Her experience spans the full life cycle of commercial real estate projects—from acquisitions, dispositions, financing, and development through leasing, construction, repositioning, and ongoing property operations.
Her practice is grounded in commercial leasing, with extensive experience negotiating retail, office, and industrial leases on behalf of both landlords and tenants. At the same time, her broader transactional experience allows her to understand how individual leasing decisions fit within the larger objectives of a development or investment. She handles the leases, easements, development agreements, construction agreements, purchase and sale agreements, and other documents that bring commercial real estate projects from concept through completion.
Whether representing a developer assembling and leasing a new mixed-use project, a landlord repositioning an existing retail or office property, or a tenant evaluating expansion and footprint opportunities, Melissa brings a practical, deal-focused approach to every transaction. Her broad perspective enables her to identify issues early, navigate the competing interests of developers, owners, tenants, lenders, and other stakeholders, and keep complex commercial real estate transactions moving toward a successful deal.
Her career also includes in-house roles with a national retailer, a publicly traded REIT, a real estate development company, as well as a director position at another Am Law 200 firm, experience that shapes how she approaches the business considerations behind every transaction.
Melissa received her B.A. from Suffolk University and her J.D. from Suffolk University Law School. She also has a Master of Arts degree from Emerson College.
Admitted to practice in Massachusetts and California, Melissa can be reached in the firm’s Woburn office at (781) 904-2715 or melissa.rivers@mclane.com.
About McLane Middleton, Professional Association
Founded in 1919, McLane Middleton, Professional Association has been committed to serving their clients, community and colleagues for over 100 years. They are one of New England’s premier full-service law firms with offices in Manchester, Concord and Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and Woburn and Boston, Massachusetts. Driven by the firm’s depth of sophisticated legal expertise and an unwavering commitment to client service. McLane Middleton has built collaborative and lasting relationships with a broad spectrum of domestic and international clients. McLane Middleton holds the respected honor of being listed as one of America’s leading law firms in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Business Lawyers. In addition, The Best Lawyers in America publication recently endorsed 61 of our attorneys; nearly all of whom have been listed multiple times. Our firm and select attorneys also carry the highest legal ability rating in Martindale-Hubbell, with 28 being included in the most recent edition of New England Super Lawyers. www.mclane.com
Melissa represents developers, landlords, and tenants in the transactions that shape commercial real estate, with a particular focus on retail and mixed-use development and leasing
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