Kristin Niver
Counsel
Washington, D.C.
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202 585 6937
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New York
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Education
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University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law,
J.D., Howard & Irene Levine Distinguished Fellow, UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate
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Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
M.S. in Urban Planning
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Columbia University,
M.S.W. in Affordable Housing Policy and Economic Development
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University of Chicago,
A.B. with Honors
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Admissions
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District of Columbia
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New York
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Recognitions
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Listed in "Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch" (by BL Rankings) for Real Estate, 2023-2025
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Recipient, Bisnow DMV Women Leading Real Estate Rising Star Award, 2024
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Community
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Women's Leadership Initiative of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Washington
Steering Committee Member, 2022-Present
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Affordable Housing Committee, ABA Section of Real Property, Trust & Estate Law
Chair, 2019-Present
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Commercial Real Estate Transactions Group, ABA Section of Real Property, Trust & Estate Law
Vice Chair, 2023-Present
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District of Columbia Building Industry Association (DCBIA) Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee
Co-Chair, 2023-Present
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Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) D.C.
Programs Committee Member, 2021-Present
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Journal of Affordable Housing and Community Development Law, ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law
Digest Editor, 2015-Present
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Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
Regional Ambassador, 2024-Present
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Jubilee Housing, Advisory Council
2024-Present
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Boys & Girls Club of Greater Washington
Youth & Real Estate Event Committee, 2024-Present
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Advanced Energy Group (AEG) DMV
Building Electrification Task Force Leader, 2024-Present
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DC Real Estate Group
Member, 2024-Present
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Kristin is a versatile commercial real estate and finance attorney, concentrating her practice in all aspects of commercial real estate finance and development.
Kristin has a decade of legal experience representing banks, insurance companies and debt funds in construction and permanent loans, debt restructurings and secondary market transactions, as well as working with market-rate and affordable housing developers and owners on financings, acquisitions and sales, joint venture arrangements, condominium regimes, and leases for all product types, including multifamily, retail, office and hotel, and frequently as part of complex mixed-use development and redevelopment and master planning projects nationwide.
In addition to her broad background in commercial real estate finance and development generally, Kristin has had a career-long focus on affordable housing and community development, both as a real estate and commercial finance attorney, and formerly as an urban planner specializing in affordable housing finance and policy. She has extensive experience in community development lending, impact finance syndications and programmatic and policy issues related to affordable housing, and routinely provides legal advice to profit and nonprofit developers, financial institutions, investors, and community development entities engaged in all types of complex real estate development and financing transactions, specifically social impact investing and tax credit finance.
Thompson Coburn Publications
Publications
Changing the Face of Urban America: Assessing the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
102 VA. L. REV. ONLINE 48, 2016
Presentations
Moderator, "Achieving Affordability: How the DMV is Promoting Affordable Housing,”
Urban Land Institute (ULI) Washington, December 5, 2024
Panelist, “Real Estate Lending and the Impact of Weather-Related Risks: Disclosures, Underwriting, Loan Covenants, Insurance,”
Strafford CLE, November 19, 2024
Panelist, "How to Identify and Resolve Title Defects,"
ABA RPTE CLE Program, October 2, 2024
Moderator, "Affordable Housing Public Policy Overview and Tax Policy Review,"
CREW DC Affordable Housing Summit, September 19, 2024
Moderator, "Building Green Infrastructure in Communities,"
ABA Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law Annual Meeting, May 23, 2024
Moderator, “Powering Progress: Unleashing the Potential of Commercial Real Estate with PACE Financing,”
ABA RPTE National CLE Conference, May 10, 2024
Moderator, “Nuts and Bolts of Preferred Equity in Affordable Housing Transactions,”
ABA RPTE National CLE Conference, May 9, 2024
Moderator, “Supercharging Office to Housing Conversions,”
ABA RPTE National CLE Conference, May 9, 2024
Moderator, "Dinner with GFP, Alchemy Properties, TPG, Twin Oaks Equity Partners & Hudson Valley Property Group,"
Young Jewish Professionals New York, April 9, 2024
Moderator, "DMV Affordable Housing Summit,"
Bisnow, April 4, 2024
Moderator, "Inclusionary Zoning: A Discussion with Three Practitioners,"
ABA RPTE Sponsored Webinar, February 7, 2024
Moderator, "The Amazon Effect: Amazon HQ2’s Effect on Real Estate and Housing in the D.C. Metro,"
ABA RPTE National CLE Conference, May 12, 2023
Moderator, "Greening Your Practice - Developments and Opportunities in Sustainable Real Estate,"
ABA RPTE National CLE Conference, May 11, 2023
Moderator, "Office to Housing Conversions in Downtown DC,”
ABA RPTE Sponsored Webinar, March 28, 2023
Moderator, “Role of Affordable Housing Programs in the Biden Administration’s Social Safety Net Legislation,”
ABA RPTE National CLE Conference, April 28, 2022