Julie Ray is a director and shareholder in the firm’s Business Law, Real Estate, and Banking and Financial Services Practice Groups. She also oversees the firm’s Foreclosure Practice Group.

Ms. Ray has been providing business advice to clients for over twenty years. Her business practice focuses on advising clients in a broad range of transactional settings, including entity formation and restructuring, stock and asset sales and acquisitions, complex contract negotiation, and the provision of general business advice to a variety of businesses. She also represents lenders and borrowers in commercial loan transactions, both asset-based and real estate-based. Her real estate practice includes commercial real estate development and leasing, and residential and commercial condominium developments, including interval and timeshare ownership projects. Together with Jim Katsiaficas, Ms. Ray recently received recognition from the Long Creek Watershed Management District for assisting with the development of a first-in-the-nation stormwater management program to address the restoration of Long, Creek, an urban impaired stream, through an agreement among various municipalities and participating landowners.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Ray was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel of a Maine ski resort company, where she was involved in the initial public offering of stock in the company and in its acquisition of ski resorts in Utah, Colorado, California, and Nevada. Ms. Ray oversaw due diligence for the resort acquisitions and worked with local counsel to address real estate and permitting issues. She also assisted the company in its development of several interval and whole ownership condominium projects in both its eastern and western resorts. Previously, Ms. Ray was in private practice in Portland.

Ms. Ray is a member of the Race Committee and Chair of the Sponsorship Committee of the Maine Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Portland Race for the Cure. Prior to its merger with Goodwill Industries of Northern New England, Ms. Ray served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Cumberland County Training Resource Center. She has also served as a guardian ad litem with the Court Appointed Special Advocates Program.

Ms. Ray is Peer Review Rated for Ethical Standards and Legal Ability by Martindale-Hubbell.

Ms. Ray resides in North Yarmouth with her husband and two children.