Gary S. Fentin

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Practice

Attorney Gary S. Fentin concentrates his practice in the areas of commercial and real estate finance and development, industrial revenue bonds, affordable housing, estate planning, business law, and business foreclosures and workouts.

Gary manages the firm’s tax-exempt bond practice and has acted as bond counsel and/or purchaser’s counsel in hundreds of such issues since 1978. He is the only counsel west of Worcester, MA who has been approved as bond counsel to the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency.

Attorney Fentin has represented lenders, purchasers and developers in real estate development and finance matters for over thirty-five years and represents secured lenders in commercial foreclosures and workouts.

He is actively involved in the representation of profit and not-for-for profit companies and in the development, financing, refinancing and syndication of affordable housing.

Professional Background

Education

Harvard Law School, Intensive Mediation Workshop, 2002
Boston University, LL.M. in Taxation, 1983
Boston College Law School, J.D., 1969; Order of the Coif; Editor, Boston College Law Review
Duke University, Durham, A.B., 1966

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Admitted

1969, Massachusetts
1972, U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts

Memberships

Hampden County and Massachusetts Bar Associations
National Association of Bond Lawyers

Biography

Best Lawyers® in America, 2013, 2014
Associate, 1975, and Partner, since 1977, Shatz, Schwartz and Fentin, P.C.
Massachusetts Super Lawyers, 2004, 2006 – 2007 – 2008 – 2009, 2011-2012-2013
Adjunct Professor of Law, Boston College Law School, 1973-1975
Staff Attorney, 1970-1971, and Executive Director, 1971-1973, Neighborhood Legal Services, Inc. of Springfield
Associate, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Glovsky, and Popeo, 1969-1970

Professional and Community Activities

Former Member, Conway, MA Housing Committee
Former President, Friends of WFCR, Inc.

Publications

“Tax-exempt Bonds,” Business West, April 2011
“Condominiums — Representing the Parties when the Party’s Over — From a Lender’s Perspective,” MCLE, 1991
“Real Property Foreclosures,” National Business Institute, 1991, (Co-author)
“Part Performance Under UCC Sections 2-201 and 8-319, 10 BC Ind. & Com. L. Rev 413 (1968)

Interests

Gary is an avid road and off-road cyclist. He biked cross country, unsupported, in 2000.