Erica P. Bigelow

Erica P. Bigelow, Counsel, concentrates on real estate and business law. Her transactional practice includes representation of both lenders and developers/owners. She has acted as closing counsel for a national bank, performing commercial closings of approximately $100 million annually. As developer counsel, she has represented individual and corporate developers in a variety of commercial and multi-family residential projects, from property identification and due diligence, through zoning, wetlands and planning permits, to acquisition and construction financing. Significant development projects on which she acted as lead counsel include: a 57-acre residential subdivision in Marlborough, Massachusetts; rehabilitation of a city downtown site, including environmental remediation; and urban townhouse construction development projects in Boston, Cambridge and Medford, ranging in size from 6 to 96 units.

Ms. Bigelow has also acted as title, environmental and closing counsel in commercial property acquisitions, sales and workouts ranging in value from $3 to over $100 million. In the recent past, she has had primary responsibility for: the acquisition of a 575-acre industrial site in Southeastern Massachusetts; a $10 million credit facility secured by receivables and real estate in two states; and a $26 million asset sale involving six commercial multi-parcel properties in three states. She has represented both sellers and buyers on “brownfields’” redevelopment projects, procuring environmental insurance and negotiating covenants not to sue.

Ms. Bigelow is a graduate of Radcliffe College (cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and Harvard Law School (cum laude).

In 1990, Ms. Bigelow co-authored and was assistant editor for the first edition of Massachusetts Foreclosures (MCLE). She has written and lectured on zoning, affordable housing (Chapter 40B) and smart growth. She is a member of the Legislative Committee of the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts and one of the principal drafters of pending legislation to reform, modernize, and expand the Massachusetts Homestead Act.