Practice:

• Co-Chair, Real Estate

Bar Admissions:

Massachusetts
U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts

Experience:

Donald Vaughan focuses his practice on real estate matters, including the representation of landlords and tenants in commercial office and retail leases and subleases, and lenders and borrowers in permanent, construction and leasehold financing transactions. His experience includes commercial/investment real estate sales, acquisitions and like-kind exchanges; commercial mortgage-backed securities transactions, residential real estate sales, acquisitions and development; and estate planning and administration, primarily with real estate as a major asset. His experience includes the successful overseeing of several difficult and highly-visible development projects and foreclosure actions. Mr. Vaughan also currently serves as an Executive Committee member of Burns & Levinson.

Memberships:

• Boston Bar Association
• Greater Boston Chambers Development Committee
• Greater Boston Legal Services, executive committee
• Massachusetts Lesbian and Gay Bar Association
• Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership, Board of Directors
• Real Estate Finance Association
• Phi Beta Kappa

Additional Information:

• Mr. Vaughan serves on the boards of the Greater Boston Legal Services Corporation and the Boston Early Music Festival, and is active in various other non-profit organizations.

Education:

• J.D., Columbia Law School, 1983
• B.A., magna cum laude, Haverford College, 1979

Awards:

• Mr. Vaughan was selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® (2013) in the field of Real Estate Law. Best Lawyers® is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey in which more than 41,000 leading attorneys throughout the country cast almost 3.9 million votes on the legal abilities of other lawyers in their practice areas. Inclusion in Best Lawyers® is considered a singular honor.

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Mr. Vaughan is an AV rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell.