Underberg & Kessler LLP
Kate is an active presence in both the preservation and the development of our local community. As chair of our Real Estate and Banking Law Practice Groups, her legal expertise extends to commercial real estate, development, and finance. She works with commercial lenders to structure mortgage and asset-based loan transactions, and to handle environmental issues in a practical manner. She has broad experience representing commercial owners, developers, and a national retailer in all aspects of acquisitions, sales, construction, development and lease negotiations.
Tackling zoning and land use issues and environmental concerns are a part of Kate’s everyday practice. She also represents institutional lenders in connection with a broad variety of loans including real estate secured financing, transactions with industrial development agencies and with Small Business Administration involvement, term loans and lines of credit.
A former law clerk to the New York State Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Department, Kate has practiced law in Rochester since 1988. She is a frequent presenter at Monroe County and New York State Bar Association seminars that focus on residential and commercial real estate topics.
As an active board member and and participant on the Executive Committees of Rochester Downtown Development Corporation and The Landmark Society of Western New York, Inc., Kate remains involved in the vital decisions affecting the development of our region.
Kate is a cum laude graduate of Albany Law School and a magna cum laude graduate of Bucknell University.
Kate was selected a 2010, 2009, 2008 and 2007 Upstate New York Super Lawyer by
Law & Politics
. The Super Lawyer group represents the top 5% of attorneys in Upstate New York who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement.
Katherine H. Karl
Partner
Rochester, NY
Tel: 585-258-2883
Fax: 585-258-2821
kkarl@underbergkessler.com
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Practice Area(s)
Banking
Real Estate
Education
Union University at Albany Law School, J.D., 1987
Bucknell University, B.A., 1984
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