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| John Smolak is a Partner and Co-Founder of Smolak & Vaughan LLP. His practice is concentrated in the areas of land use, environmental, and real estate development law. Prior to forming the firm in 2004, John was Co-Chairman of the Real Estate and Environmental Group with Burns & Levinson LLP in Boston. John has represented property owners and developers in over seventy cities and towns in Massachusetts in all aspects of real estate development, including the licensing and permitting of land use projects such as office buildings and parks, shopping centers, institutional and educational facilities, hotels, affordable and multifamily housing developments, residential complexes, and other mixed use developments. | |
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Brian Vaughan is a Partner and Co-Founder of Smolak & Vaughan LLP. Brian's practice is focused in the areas of commercial real estate and corporate finance. Brian has extensive experience representing banks and other financial institutions, private lenders and borrowers in a wide array of commercial transactional matters, including secured and unsecured lending, real estate finance (acquisition, construction and permanent financings), asset-based lending, commercial and industrial lending, equipment leasing and loan transactions, loan syndications and participations, and sophisticated intercreditor and subordination agreements.
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Mary Cataudella has a broad range of experience
representing businesses and individuals in various disputes with a focus on
litigation in the areas of real estate, business, and banking. In particular,
Ms, Cataudella has extensive experience in resolving a variety of complex real
estate title claims including forgeries, missing interests, reformation of
title documents, adverse possession and prescriptive easement claims. She has
also represented
title insurers and lenders in the litigation and resolution of mortgage frauds,
defalcations and over-financing schemes involving inflated appraisals,
misrepresentations of savings, earnings and down payments in loan documentation. | |
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Mark Barrett has a wide variety of experience in the areas of estate planning and administration, small business advising, and taxation.
Mark also represents individuals in a variety of estate planning, estate taxation, and trust and estate administration matters, including the preparation of estate plans for taxable and non-taxable estates, preparation of estate tax and fiduciary income tax returns, the settlement of decedents' estates.
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Stephanie Kiefer focuses her legal practice on environmental, land use and zoning law, including permitting and appeals. Over the past fifteen years, Ms. Kiefer has been involved in broad ranging projects and associated permitting of wetlands, waterways, sewer and septic, endangered species and MEPA, traditional zoning and subdivision permitting as well as alternate zoning schemes, such as Chapter 40B and Chapter 40R. Stephanie has been active in the permitting of one of the first smart growth zoning developments in the Commonwealth and likewise was a part of the permitting team for the first Tax Credit Exchange program development with funding through the ARRA, reviving developments which faltered with the collapse of the tax credit market.
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