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Joshua M. Bowman is a partner in the firm’s Real Estate and Corporate departments and is chair of the firm’s Hospitality Practice Group.

Described by his clients as “a skilled and tenacious attorney with a collegial demeanor” who provides “a practical approach with deal-focused creativity,” Josh brings years of experience counseling local and national real estate owners and developers, institutional and non-institutional lenders, investors, tenants, contractors, and other businesses in connection with a wide variety of transactions and situations.

Josh has substantial experience dealing with complicated issues related to commercial real estate ownership, development, finance, joint venture arrangements, acquisitions and sales, leasing, land use, licensing, management and franchise agreements, construction agreements, and food and beverage agreements. As the Chair of the firm’s Hospitality Practice Group, Josh has a particular concentration in representing owners and operators of restaurants and hotels.

Josh is a member of the Hotel Industry Advisory Board for the New England Real Estate Journal, where he regularly writes articles of interest to the hospitality industry and is a member of the Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys. He also works on governmental issues important to the retail real estate industry as an active member of the ICSC Government Relations Committee and is a former member of the ICSC NextGen Boston Steering Committee.

In 2019, Josh was appointed to Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education’s (MCLE) Board of Trustees. Throughout the years, he has moderated several panels at conferences and commercial real estate industry events, led continuing legal education seminars for MCLE and The Real Estate Bar Association of Massachusetts (REBA), and served as an advisor to the Boston College Law School Community Economic Development Clinic.Over the past ten years, Josh has raised over $113,000 for the life-saving work of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute as a rider in the Pan-Mass Challenge – a two-day bicycle ride from Sturbridge to Provincetown, Massachusetts. In 2019, Josh was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Chunilal Initiative – a 501(c)3 nonprofit that organizes neurosurgery mission trips in under-served, impoverished, and marginalized communities around the world.

In January of 2017, Josh joined the faculty at the Boston University School of Hospitality Administration, where he teaches two courses: The Fundamentals of a Hotel Real Estate Deal and Hospitality Law.

Contact & Links
Location
  • 101 Federal Street
    Boston, MA 02110
Education
  • Boston College Law School, J,D.
  • Colgate University, B.A
Bar Admissions
  • Massachusetts, Bar Association
  • New York, Bar Association
Affiliations
  • Academy of Hospitality Industry Attorneys - Member
  • Boston Bar Association - Member
  • International Council of Shopping Centers - Member
  • Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) - Board of Trustees
  • Real Estate Bar Association - Member
Court Admissions
  • United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts

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Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 for work in:
  • Real Estate Law
Special Focus:
  • Acquisitions
  • COVID-19
  • Development
  • Hotels
  • Shopping Center Transactions
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
  • Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Food and Beverage Law
  • Franchise Law
  • Leisure and Hospitality Law

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