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Olivia S. Byrne

Olivia S. Byrne

Partner
Washington DC
+1.202.778.9412
Email Olivia S. Byrne @ Olivia.Byrne@klgates.com
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Olivia Byrne is a partner in the firm's Real Estate practice and the lead of the Global Location Strategies practice. Her practice involves site selection, economic incentives, and real estate for many different industries, including Energy, EV battery, solar, hydrogen and offshore wind materials manufacturing, OEM auto parts and components, industrial manufacturing, wood-based products and biofuels, technology, broadcasting, distribution centers, fulfillment centers, data centers, professional sports stadiums and arenas, practice fields, food processing, financial services, entertainment facilities, and hotels. She represents companies inbound from abroad including Asia, Europe, Canada, and Australia, as well as US companies relocating or deciding to remain in place and expand.

Olivia has successfully obtained significant economic incentives for clients on a national basis and has extensive experience drafting legislation for economic incentives and tax-related issues. Her proven track record demonstrates proposals to certain corporations such as manufacturing and technology from US$100 million dollars to about one billion dollars in economic incentives. She served as lobbyist for The Advisory Board Company that won the “Game Changer Award” at the Washington Business Journal's Best Real Estate Deal of the Year Awards in 2016. She regularly meets with many Economic Development corporations and authorities on behalf of clients on a national basis. 

She is a frequent speaker on a national and international basis at Site Selection and Economic Incentive conferences and programs. She has worked with clients to assist with structuring real estate transactions and related real estate and tax issues in many different industry areas including Energy and Automotive. She understands the challenges for inbound companies and provides a comprehensive review for her clients before they decide on a location for their new factory, fab or headquarters. By combining her team’s knowledge of public policy, real estate, and state legislation, the result is a solution that is inclusive and thorough. The success of her projects often involve infrastructure needs and public private partnerships.

Olivia focuses her real estate and finance practice on real estate transactions, financing transactions, public policy, and legislative counseling. She represents many corporations, nonprofits, and partnerships in real estate projects relating to headquarters buildings, mixed-use, retail, office, sports stadiums and arenas, residential, manufacturing, warehouse, healthcare, hotels, restaurants, and colleges and universities. This includes tax exempt and taxable bonds, conventional loans, OZ equity, New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC), Tax Increment Financings (TIFs), public/private partnerships (including those with colleges and universities), and public finance including multifamily housing projects with low-income housing tax credits and tax exempt bonds. She has completed financing transactions with NMTC allocatees for many mixed-use multifamily housing and office projects. She has worked on numerous multifamily housing projects on a national, state, and local basis. Olivia has worked on infrastructure projects and other projects financed with TIFs. She has represented NMTC borrowers with public/private partnerships and manufacturing projects on a national basis. She represents developers and corporations with real estate acquisitions, renovation projects, and public/private partnerships, as well as retail/residential, office condominiums, and the related real estate documentation and due diligence. She is a registered lobbyist in DC and works with Virginia and Maryland frequently as well.

Olivia was named to the Super Lawyers list as a top Washington, D.C., lawyer in Government Finance in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022. and 2023. She was also named by the Washington Business Journal as a "2009 Top Washington Lawyer" Finalist in the Real Estate Transactions category. Her financing structure for the National Association of Realtors' US$40 million real estate transaction was selected as the "Best Financing Deal of the Year" by the Washington Business Journal.

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