Margaret E. Probish

Margaret E. Probish is a shareholder at Sheehan Phinney in Manchester, New Hampshire whose practice focuses on commercial finance and real estate. Probish advises institutional and business clients on financing, acquisitions, sales, leasing, public finance, and affordable-housing transactions. The practice includes commercial finance, public finance, affordable housing, commercial real estate acquisition and disposition, leasing, tax-exempt bonds, and outside general counsel work. Probish helps institutional clients, lenders, borrowers, real estate owners, developers, and business organizations structure financing and real estate transactions and manage related legal risks.

Probish earned a J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law and a B.A. from Cornell University. Her education supports a practice combining finance, real estate, transaction structuring, public funding, and institutional legal counseling. This background supports careful legal analysis, clear communication, and practical judgment in matters involving commercial finance and real estate.

Probish has experience with more than thirty-five years of work on commercial finance and real estate matters, including healthcare and senior-living financing, shopping-center transactions, HUD-related work, and institutional bond financings. She has represented both lenders and borrowers in complex financings and advises institutional clients on broader legal needs. Across these matters, the work requires careful preparation and attention to the legal, factual, and practical issues that affect the client’s position.

Margaret E. Probish is recognized for longstanding New Hampshire work in real estate and commercial finance. She served on Sheehan Phinney’s management committee and has received repeated recognition for real estate practice. The practice combines transactional experience across financing, property, and institutional legal matters. This approach helps clients understand available options, evaluate risk, and move important matters forward with informed legal guidance.

Law Office Affiliations

• Shareholder, Sheehan Phinney
• Member, New Hampshire Bar Association
• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Member, New York State Bar Association
• Member, National Association of College and University Attorneys (NACUA)
• Board of Trustees , Chair through, Mt. St. Mary’s Academy (2001-2009)
• Past Board Member, Salvation Army
• Member, NeighborWorks Southern New Hampshire

Licensed State

• New Hampshire
• Massachusetts
• New York

Education

• Syracuse University College of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Cornell University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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