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Super Lawyer 2020 – 2024
Recognized as a 2023 Top Lawyer by Boston Magazine
Eric M. Labbe
Eric represents parties involved in all aspects of commercial real estate lease transactions, including institutional investors, developers, and public and private companies. Eric’s extensive experience includes advising both landlords and tenants in lease negotiations and ongoing lease administration for office, life sciences, retail, and industrial properties in the New England area and across the country. Eric also advises companies in managing their real estate portfolio through all stages of the corporate life cycle, from initial lease-up to final disposition.
Representative Experience
- Represented a publicly-traded life sciences company with respect to its national leasing, including a 450,000 square foot headquarters and over 500,000 square feet of manufacturing space.
- Represented a publicly-traded on-line automobile marketplace in its headquarters lease of more than 225,000 square feet of space in a new project to be constructed over the Massachusetts Turnpike.
- Represented a life sciences company in a full building lease of its headquarters in South Boston containing more than 263,000 square feet of office and lab space.
- Represented landlords in leases in Boston and Washington, DC to a co-working space provider totaling approximately 325,000 square feet.
- Represented a Massachusetts-based international footwear company with respect to its national headquarters lease.
- Represented the landlord of a Class A Office Tower in Boston in a lease of approximately 250,000 square feet to a national financial institution.
- Represented a Dallas-based developer in the negotiation of a build-to-suit lease of a seventeen story dormitory building in Boston.
Publications/Presentations
- Co-Presenter of MCLE Presentation: How to Draft and Negotiate Small Commercial Leases, presented November, 2020.
- Co-Chair of Commercial Real Estate BasicsPlus for MCLE, 2018-2024.
- Co-Presenter at Real Property Trusts & Estates Conference at the American Bar Association, “Negotiating Lease Exit Strategies for Landlords and Tenants,” May 2016.
- Presentation to Boston Bar Association Leasing Committee on Security Deposits and Letters of Credit, December 2015.
- Presentation to Commercial Brokers Association, “Choreographing the Dance: Moving Tenants Out Of (and Into Premises),” Multiple Years.
- REFA Fundamentals of Real Estate Presentation: Leasing in Today’s Environment, presented November 7, 2013.
- Co-Chair of the MCLE Presentation: Preventing & Resolving Practical Problems in Retail & Office Leases, presented October 10, 2012.
- Chair of the MCLE Presentation: Creating & Maximizing Hidden Value in Retail & Office Leasing, presented February 23, 2010.
- MCLE Presentation: Representing Insolvent Commercial Landlords & Tenants, presented November 12, 2009.
Pro Bono Representation
- Represented a community development organization in Brighton, Massachusetts in the redevelopment and leasing of a former neighborhood school building acquired from the Archdiocese of Boston.
- Represents a community arts organization in leasing space to local music, dance, and art schools and local artists.
Professional Activities
- Rated 2023 Top Lawyer by Boston Magazine
Education
J.D., Boston University School of Law, 1997 (cum laude)
B.A., Merrimack College, 1990 (summa cum laude)
Bar Admissions
Eric is admitted to the bar of Massachusetts.