Lisa R. Magnacca

Attorney

207.253.0504 Direct
207.772.3627 Fax

lmagnacca@dwmlaw.com

84 Marginal Way, Suite 600
Portland, ME 04101-2480

Assistant: Candice Pierce

PRACTICE AREAS

EDUCATION

  • University of Maine School of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 2012
  • Clark University, B.A., magna cum laude, 2000

BAR & COURT ADMISSIONS

  • Maine

MEMBERSHIPS

  • Maine State Bar Association

COMMUNITY/PUBLIC SERVICE

  • Maine Affordable Housing Coalition Board of Directors
    Board Member
  • Shalom House, Inc.
    Board Member (2013-present)
  • Women's Law Association
    Member
  • Maine Association for Construction and Real Estate Law
    Member
 

Lisa Magnacca brings a decade’s worth of experience in real estate development and management to her legal career. Prior to attending to law school, she worked for a prominent real estate management company headquartered in Maine, where her responsibilities included supervising and maintaining regulatory compliance for an extensive portfolio of multifamily affordable housing projects. Her intimate understanding of the day-in, day-out business realities faced by real estate business professionals informs her approach to her legal practice.

Lisa’s practice in the firm’s Business Services Group focuses primarily on corporate and real estate matters. She represents individuals, businesses, and Indian tribes on a variety of corporate and commercial transactions, including business formation, lending transactions, commercial contracts, and business acquisitions and sales.

In her real estate practice, Lisa represents clients, including developers, condominium associations, landlords and municipalities, in the acquisition, development, financing, leasing, and sale of commercial and residential real estate. She also represents clients in the areas of affordable housing development and management, including compliance and fair housing issues.

While attending Maine Law, Lisa served as a judicial extern with Judge Kermit V. Lipez of the First Circuit Court of Appeals, and as an extern with the Appellate Division of the U.S. Attorney’s office in Portland.


AWARDS

  • New England Super Lawyers, Real Estate, Business/Corporate, Rising Star (2015-2016)

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