Attorney Karen Kepler is a partner at the firm, specializing in Affordable Housing & Tax-Exempt Financing and Commercial Real Estate. Ms. Kepler has more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate development and finance, with an emphasis on facilitating public-private partnerships through affordable housing and community economic development projects. She represents for-profit and non-profit companies, financial institutions and quasi-public agencies in complex mixed-use developments, assisted living projects, HUD and Fannie Mae financed developments, federal and state low income housing tax credit (LIHTC) and tax-exempt bond financed projects, New Markets Tax Credit developments and "Comprehensive Permit" projects under Massachusetts General Laws Chapter 40B. Ms. Kepler graduated from Boston University School of Law and received a B.A. in economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Before joining Dalton & Finegold, she was a partner at Goulston & Storrs. Ms. Kepler is a member of the Housing Advisory Board of the Town of Brookline, a trustee and past-president of the Lawyers' Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing and Homelessness and a past-president of the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts. She is listed as a Massachusetts Super Lawyer and is ranked as one of the top women lawyers in real estate in the Northeast by Martindale-Hubbell. Ms. Kepler is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
