Rachel Toker
p. 301.634.0545 (
Maryland
)
f. 301-560-8904 (
Maryland
)
Rachel Toker is Of Counsel in Bocarsly Emden. Ms. Toker has returned to Bocarsly Emden after completing her term as an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel in the Economic Development Administration within the United States Department of Commerce. While at the Economic Development Administration, Ms. Toker provided legal advice on all agency matters, with a special focus on grants to public and nonprofit entities for public-private partnerships, sustainable economic development projects, and public infrastructure. During her term, she also played a leading role in interagency collaborations to support regional innovation clusters and regional innovation in general.
Ms. Toker is a transactional real estate lawyer specializing in commercial and multi-family real estate development, public-private partnerships, the revitalization of underserved urban areas, and the development of green affordable housing. She has experience representing private real estate developers, equity investors, governmental and quasi-governmental entities, and nonprofit organizations. She represents clients in the construction of energy-efficient buildings, the rehabilitation of deteriorating assets, the remediation of brownfield sites for housing and commercial uses, and residential and community economic development projects using low income housing tax credits, historic rehabilitation tax credits and new markets tax credits. In the past, she also has represented government clients in infrastructure development and land assemblage projects.
Before joining Bocarsly Emden, Ms. Toker was Deputy General Counsel to the Anacostia Waterfront Corporation, an instrumentality of the District of Columbia government created to rehabilitate and revitalize the Anacostia River and the adjacent communities. Ms. Toker is a former Assistant Attorney General in the Real Estate Section of the Office of the Attorney General for the District of Columbia, and she previously practiced in the real estate practice group at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, D.C. After her graduation from the Harvard Law School and prior to joining Arnold & Porter LLP, Ms. Toker was judicial law clerk to the Hon. Myron H. Bright of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.
Ms. Toker received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Stanford University with University Honors and Distinction in 1994, and she received both her Juris Doctor degree, cum laude, from the Harvard Law School and her Masters in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1999. Ms. Toker also has been a LEED Accredited Professional since June 2009.