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Mariposa Padilla Sivage

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Mariposa Padilla Sivage

MARIPOSA PADILLA SIVAGE practices primarily in real estate law. She represents numerous financial institutions in structuring, negotiating, and documenting commercial real estate and asset-based loans. She frequently acts as local counsel in multistate loan transactions.

In her real estate practice, she represents local, regional, and national clients in a broad range of real estate matters including the structuring, negotiating, and implementing of joint venture, construction, sale, purchase and leasing transactions for industrial properties, shopping centers, office buildings, apartment projects, renewable energy (wind, solar and transmission) development, and other commercial properties.

Ms. Padilla Sivage worked in the field of marketing and public relations prior to her legal career.

 

Admissions

  • New Mexico, 2003
  • United States District Court for the District of New Mexico, 2004
  • 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, 2004

Education

  • University of New Mexico Law School, 2003, J.D. magna cum laude
  • University of New Mexico, 1998, B.A. Communications and Journalism

Publications & Speeches

  • Workers Compensation: Exclusivity, Common Law Remedies, and the Reconsideration of the Actual Intent Test – Delgado v. Phelps Dodge Chino, Inc., 32 NMLR 567 (2002).
  • Soto v. Galvan – McBrayer’s “Scope of Duty” is Limited, NMDSA Defense News Fall 2008, co-author.

Recognitions

  • Martindale-Hubbell Rating: AV Preeminent
  • Litigation Counsel of America, Fellow
  • New Mexico Women of Influence, Albuquerque Business First, 2019
  • Southwest Super Lawyers, Litigation Star, 2019
  • Benchmark Litigation, 40 & Under Hot List, 2019-present
  • Southwest Super Lawyers, Rising Star, Business Litigation 2012-2013
  • Order of the Coif
  • Irwin Stern Moise Award for legal and judicial ethics, co-recipient, 2003
  • University of New Mexico School of Law Clinic Honors, 2003
  • MALSA Graduate of the Year Award, 2003
  • New Mexico Law Review, Manuscript Editor 2002-2003,
    Staff Member 2001-2002

Professional & Community Involvement

  • Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce, Board of Directors, 2023
  • Sutin, Thayer & Browne, Secretary 2021-present
  • Sutin, Thayer & Browne, Board of Directors, 2017-present
  • Alice King Community School, Governing Board, 2019-present; President, 2022-present
  • United Way of Central New Mexico, Women United Council, 2018-2022
  • New Mexico Hispanic Bar Association, Board of Directors, 2004-2010 and 2012-2016
  • State Bar of New Mexico Committee on Diversity in the Legal Profession, current
  • National Hispanic Bar
  • American Bar Association
  • New Mexico Defense Lawyers Association
  • Defense Research Institute

Ms. Padilla Sivage practices chiefly in the area of transactional business law, representing many of the state’s largest public and private institutions, including banks and other lenders, hospitals, universities, and commercial and industrial developers of all sizes in structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex projects. Among other matters, she has:

  • Acted as local counsel in multistate transactions
  • Advised clients regarding investment properties in New Mexico
  • Advised and assisted clients with regard to the organization and operation of partnerships, LLCs, and LLPs
  • Represented local, regional, and national clients in a broad range of real estate matters including the structuring, negotiating, and implementing of joint venture, construction, sale, purchase, and leasing transactions for industrial properties, shopping centers, office buildings, apartment projects, renewable energy (wind, solar and transmission) development, and other commercial properties
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