Yareni (Yari) Sanchez
Director
Boston
ysanchez@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 3564Yareni (Yari) Sanchez
Director, Boston
ysanchez@goulstonstorrs.com+1 617 574 3564Related Expertise
Clients navigating real estate transactions and development projects use Yari Sanchez’s valuable assistance from concept to completion. Yari handles all aspects of real estate, including permitting and zoning, acquisition and disposition, and financing for mixed-use, office, retail, institutional, multi-family residential, and other projects. Her work often involves complex projects such as multi-phased, master-planned developments, office/labspace projects, and ground lease developments.
Yari serves a diverse group of clients including public and private companies, joint ventures, general and limited partnerships, foreign investors, medical and educational institutions, private and charitable foundations, and public-private partnerships. Contributing to the success of many significant projects, Yari has worked on transformative projects such as Boston's Seaport Square and the Cambridge Crossing developments. Through her varied work, she is familiar with the special concerns particular to many industry sectors, such as higher education, health care, residential, and real estate development in general.
Applying a Legislative and Community Relations Lens
To provide clients with the best possible legal advice, Yari draws upon her work as a former legislative aide and community liaison for the New York City Council, including for the Office of the Speaker. In this capacity, she worked on government-side permitting for major real estate projects, taking account of community concerns and economic development goals for the district she served, and meeting with developers, business owners, and other community leaders.
Leading the Way Toward the Future
With a commitment to helping future leaders in the field, Yari served as a teaching assistant at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design for a course entitled: “Creating Real Estate Ventures: A Legal Perspective.” She helped plan the coursework, interacting with students and running realistic mock negotiations in a classroom setting. Yari also served for several consecutive years on the Real Estate Section Steering Committee of the Boston Bar Association, where she co-chaired the Fundamentals Subcommittee, helping plan seminars for other attorneys and law students.
Additionally committed to supporting the broader community, Yari provides volunteer legal assistance to Kids In Need of Defense (KIND), an organization offering high-quality legal services to children in immigration court proceedings, as well as social support services.
Yari is fluent in Spanish.
Related Representative Matters
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in the permitting and development of a 450,000-square foot, state-of-the-art cancer hospital in collaboration with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Leading national healthcare real estate investment trust in connection with a transformative, multi-building, mixed-use development spanning over 40 acres in Cambridge. The project includes residential, office, lab, and retail uses, and involves comprehensive permitting and development strategy across a high-profile urban site.
DivcoWest in connection with all land use and development aspects for Cambridge Crossing, a transformative 4.5 million-square-foot, 43-acre mixed-use development spanning East Cambridge, Somerville, and Boston, featuring state-of-the-art life sciences facilities, residential communities, retail, and public spaces.
A privately-owned real estate investment firm with all aspects of a complex development project. The firm handles all of the real estate, land use, acquisition, development, master planning, environmental and financing aspects of this immense project which includes 18 parcels across 5.2 million square feet of development property, including 2 million square feet of commercial space, and 3 million square feet of residential space, lab space, office, multi-family, retail, a park and public amenities.
A Canadian private equity real estate fund and public company in connection with securitizations and financing as well as joint venture equity investments and loans to acquire and develop properties.
A high-net worth family business in connection with the separation of corporate interests with real estate assets across the United States. Assisted the client with drafting agreements effecting redemption of interests, as well as all other related documentation.
One of the world’s leading hospitals in connection with land use and zoning matter involving a variance application.
Clients in connection with the formation, regulatory approvals, and funding options for public-private partnerships to create public open space, including representing the Trustees of the Reservations in pursuing a destination park along Boston’s historic waterfront.
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Accolades
- Nominated and selected as a 2025 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Fellow
- CREW Boston Networking Award, 400 Summer Street Project, 2024
- Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, 2024 Up & Coming Lawyer
- Best Lawyers in America® Ones to Watch (2024-2026): Real Estate
- Massachusetts Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2022-2025
- Nominated and selected as a 2020 Leadership Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinder, enabling her to participate in a professional development and networking program that includes general and in-house counsel from leading global and nationwide companies.
Affiliations
- Summer Search Boston, current Board Member and former Associate Board Co-Chair for organization that provides personal development and full-time mentoring opportunities to low-income high school students, paving the way for a 100 percent high school graduation rate and a nearly 70 percent college graduation rate (compared to just 20 percent for their similarly-situated peers).
- Boston Bar Association, Member
- Boston Bar Association, Real Estate Section, Steering Committee (2021-2024)
- CREW (Commercial Real Estate for Women) Boston, Member
Admissions
- Massachusetts
Education
Boston University School of Law ( J.D. , 2015 )
Columbia University ( B.A. , 2009 )