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Kirsten E. Kenney

Partner Providence

Kirsten Kenney is a Partner and Vice Chair of the Real Estate group. Her practice focuses on commercial real estate law in both finance and development and her clients include some of the nation’s largest banks and commercial developers. Kirsten has extensive experience working with lenders in a wide variety of complex commercial real estate financing matters, including bilateral and syndicated mortgage loan transactions and mezzanine loan transactions. She also advises lenders in a variety of workout and restructuring transactions.

Kirsten’s experience on all sides of various commercial real estate transactions, including financing, leasing, and acquisitions and sales, gives her an in-depth and nuanced understanding of the complex interlocking roles that each party plays in any large commercial real estate project.  Specifically, given her experience representing both borrowers and lenders in various types of finance transactions, Kirsten can swiftly identify pressure points and offer her perspective in the life cycle of a deal.

Kirsten has been recognized by the Best Lawyers in America® in Commercial Finance Law. She is a Fellow of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys, and a member of the Board of Trustees of Lincoln School.

Credentials

Work Experience

  • Hinckley Allen
    • Vice Chair of Real Estate Practice (2023 - Present)
    • Partner (2012-Present)
    • Associate (2006-2012)
  • Kilpatrick Townsend
    • Associate (2003-2006)

Honors & Awards

  • Best Lawyers in America® (2020-2024)
    • Commercial Finance Law
    • Banking and Finance Law
  • New England Real Estate Journal, Women in CRE Spotlight (2023)

Charitable & Civic Involvement

  • Fellow of the Rhode Island Bar Foundation (Present)
  • Board of Trustees of Lincoln School

Professional Affiliations

  • Fellow in the American College of Mortgage Attorneys
  • Rhode Island Bar Association

Bar Memberships

  • North Carolina, 2003
  • Rhode Island, 2007

Languages

  • German, Proficient

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Publication

CARES Act and Interagency Guidance Encourage Loan Modifications Related to COVID-19

The Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("CARES Act") enacted on March 27, 2020 provides banks and their borrowers with temporary relief regarding troubled debt restructurings ("TDRs"), for short-term loan modifications made in response to C…

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Kirsten E. Kenney Named Vice Chair of Hinckley Allen’s Real Estate Group

Hinckley Allen is proud to announce that partner Kirsten E. Kenney has been named the Vice Chair of the Real Estate Group. Kirsten will share responsibility for overseeing the practice group with Partner and current Chair David Barry Connolly. The group is…

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Kirsten E. Kenney Honored in NEREJ's 2023 Women in Commercial Real Estate

Hinckley Allen is pleased to announce that Kirsten E. Kenney, Partner and Vice Chair of the Real Estate Practice Group, is honored as one of the New England Real Estate Journal’s (NEREJ) 2023 Women in Commercial Real Estate. Kirsten’s distinguished pra…

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Case Study

Middletown Plaza Shopping Center, Middletown, Rhode Island

Hinckley Allen has represented this developer client in connection with the redevelopment of a large shopping center on Aquidneck Island. In order to enable the client to separately finance each of the big box/credit tenant leases, and in order to avoid th…

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Dowling Village Shopping Center, North Smithfield, Rhode Island

Hinckley Allen represented this developer in connection with a 630,000 sq. ft. shopping center in northern Rhode Island. The work included all aspects of the project including; the acquisition of the numerous parcels of real estate needed for the transacti…

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