Richards Layton Director Sara Wagner Nominated to ACREL Board of Governors
July 13, 2026
Firm News| Real Estate Services
WILMINGTON, Delaware (July 13, 2026) – Richards, Layton & Finger is pleased to announce that Sara Wagner, a director and chair of the firm’s Real Estate Services Group, has been nominated to serve on the Board of Governors of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL). She will attend her first Board meeting as an observer this fall ahead of formally joining the Board in 2027.
Sara has been a Fellow of ACREL for several years. She serves as chair of the Attorneys’ Opinions Committee and as a member of the Member Selection Committee. She is the immediate past chair of the Capital Markets & Real Estate Finance Committee.
Sara focuses her practice on complex transactions involving the financing, acquisition, sale, lease, and development of commercial real estate, representing major developers, financial institutions, and institutional clients. She has particular depth in closing sophisticated commercial real estate loans, including CMBS financing, portfolio financing, and mezzanine and preferred equity transactions, and regularly advises clients on joint venture formation and equity capitalization. Chambers USA has ranked Wagner in Band 1 since 2011, with clients calling her “an incredibly accomplished attorney.” Sara has also been named a Best Lawyer since 2017 and a Delaware Today Top Lawyer since 2014.
Outside her practice, Sara serves as a child attorney with Delaware’s Office of the Child Advocate and provides pro bono representation on real property matters to Ministry of Caring, Inc. She earned her J.D. from Temple University School of Law in 2005 and her B.S., summa cum laude, from Philadelphia University in 2002.
Founded in 1978, ACREL is the national association of preeminent commercial real estate lawyers, with more than 1,000 Fellows practicing across all 50 states. Admission is by invitation only, following a rigorous screening process, and Fellows are elected for their outstanding legal ability, experience, and high standards of professional and ethical conduct in the practice of real estate law.
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