Roseanne Marie Hope

Roseanne Hope is owner and principal of Hope Law PLLC, a full service real estate law firm. Roseanne practiced commercial real estate law for 20 years with large national law firms including Dorsey and Whitney and Robins Kaplan representing commercial developers, retail, health care, finance and manufacturing companies and financial institutions. Her expertise includes acquisition and sales, development, leasing, financing, workouts, land use issues and general business advice.

In 2009, Roseanne co-founded Compendium Capital, a commercial real estate and banking advisory firm assisting financial institutions in asset repositioning and recapitalization strategies to improve their overall financial health.  Serving as President and General Counsel, Roseanne formed joint ventures with private equity investors and the FDIC for acquisition and restructuring of distressed commercial real estate assets.

A lifelong resident of the Twin Cities, she graduated from the University of Minnesota and William Mitchell College of Law, cum laude, where she served as an editor of the Law Review. She also holds a Minnesota real estate broker’s license.

Roseanne was the initial president and co-founder of Minnesota Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW), served on the national board of CREW Network and is the CREW 2009 “Spotlight on Success” honoree and winner of the Entrepreneurial Spirit Award in 2011. Roseanne frequently presents on real estate and distressed debt at national business and legal conferences.