Frances Ha - Coblentz Law

Details

P 415.268.4123

F 415.989.1663

fha@coblentzlaw.com

Education

J.D.

Boston College Law School (2017)
B.A., cum laude,

University of California, San Diego (2012)

Practices

Real Estate

Frances Ha represents clients in a broad range of commercial real estate transactions, including financings, acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, joint ventures, and development projects. Her clients include owners, borrowers, lenders, sponsors, investors, and lessors across a broad range of real estate asset classes, including mixed-use, multifamily, industrial, office, hospitality, and data centers.

Frances advises clients on all stages of complex real estate transactions, from initial structuring and due diligence through negotiation, documentation, and closing. She regularly structures, drafts, and negotiates loan agreements, purchase and sale agreements, joint venture agreements, organizational documents, leases, and other transaction documents. She also advises clients on title, zoning, entitlement, property management, regulatory compliance, and corporate governance matters.

Prior to joining Coblentz, Frances was an associate at international law firms in New York and San Francisco. Earlier in her career, she advised debtors, creditors, and other stakeholders in domestic and cross-border corporate restructuring, bankruptcy, and insolvency matters, including both out-of-court restructurings and in-court proceedings across a broad range of industries. Frances also served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Cecelia G. Morris of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and to the Honorable Julie A. Manning of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut.

Frances earned her J.D. from Boston College Law School in 2017. She received her B.A. in Political Science, cum laude, from the University of California, San Diego in 2012.