Karen Bjorkman, a partner in Maslon’s Real Estate Group, has extensive experience in all areas of commercial real estate. Karen’s no-nonsense, practical approach to negotiation and legal resolutions helps her facilitate both simple and complex transactions, with an emphasis on completing transactions in an orderly and efficient manner. Karen represents property owners, developers, borrowers and lenders in all types of property-related transactions, including acquisitions, easement, license and occupancy issues, development of real estate, risk analysis in connection with environmental contamination, resolution of common-interest community property issues, financing, real estate-related estate planning, and drafting and negotiating of commercial leases from both the landlord and the tenant’s perspective, including retail, office, industrial and ground leases. Her practice crosses into related, complex contract, liability and insurance law, especially in connection with shared occupancy and ownership situations, including environmental liability questions. She also represents financial institutions in connection with their commercial lending transactions, including drafting and negotiating, workouts, and foreclosures on all aspects of commercial and construction lending documents. Karen has extensive experience in title insurance, survey and easement matters and has represented multiple clients in Section 1031 tax-deferred exchanges.
