Rachel J. Richardson

Rachel J. Richardson is a partner at ArentFox Schiff LLP with more than 20 years of experience handling significant real estate transactions and sponsorship arrangements. Her practice serves clients across sports, consumer products, senior living, hospitality, and food industries. She advises owners, operators, and asset managers throughout the commercial property life cycle. Her work covers acquisitions, financing, development, operations, dispositions, entertainment & sports law, and complex joint ventures involving sponsor and capital partners.

Rachel earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from American University, Washington College of Law. She earned her B.S. from the University of Michigan. Her academic training established a foundation for sophisticated transactional work involving real estate, finance, development, and commercial agreements.

Rachel represents developers and real estate companies in acquisitions, dispositions, construction financing, joint ventures, and major development projects. She has worked on transactions involving senior living communities, hotels, apartment developments, shopping centers, office properties, and mixed-use projects. Her commercial work extends to high-value sponsorship and licensing agreements for companies in the sports and food sectors. Representative matters include sponsorship arrangements involving NASCAR, professional basketball, professional baseball, and motorsports organizations.

Rachel J. Richardson combines commercial real estate experience with significant work involving sponsorships and licensing arrangements. Before entering private practice, she negotiated construction contracts and provided cost engineering services for a national construction company. Her work included analyzing the financial performance of major construction projects. She is admitted to practice in Massachusetts, New York, and the District of Columbia. Her current industry and practice areas include sports, hospitality, senior living, finance, real estate, acquisitions, joint ventures, development, and borrower-side real estate finance.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, ArentFox Schiff LLP
• Member, Massachusetts Bar Association
• Member, District of Columbia Bar Association
• Member, New York State Bar Association

Licensed State

• District of Columbia
• Massachusetts
• New York

Education

• American University, Washington College of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD) Magna Cum Laude
• University of Michigan
  Bachelor of Science

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