Experience

• Represented a real estate investor and developer on a deed in lieu of foreclosure transaction for a ~750,000 square foot office project.
• Represented a real estate investor and developer in the development, leasing and financing of over 2 million square feet of office in downtown Bellevue in 2020.
• Represented a real estate investor and developer in the $802 million sale of two lakefront blocks in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood to a German investor. The sale price for the 635,000-square-foot property set a per-square-foot record for a Seattle office asset as of February 2022.
• Represented of a life science and technology real estate investment trust (REIT) in a $138 million acquisition of a 2.8-acre development site in Seattle, Washington.
• Represented a borrower in a significant capital loan ($300+ million) related to the office component of an extensive multi-use development.
• Represented purchasers and sellers in the purchase or sale of more than $5.5 billion of commercial real estate since December 2012, including:
  • Purchase of a 235,000-square-foot office building for $65 million for a U.S. insurance company (August 2018).
  • Purchase of a 714,000-square-foot office building for $359 million for a U.S. pension fund (July 2018).
  • Sale of a 375,000-square-foot office building for $330 million to a German-based fund (June 2017).
  • Sale of a 210,000-square-foot office building for $158 million to a U.S. pension fund (August 2017).
  • Sale of ground leases for several buildings totaling 316,000 square feet of lab and office space for $134 million (August 2016).
  • Sale of a 315,000-square-foot office building for $244 million to a New York-based investment fund (August 2016).
  • Sale of a 317,000-square-foot, 12-story building for $247 million to a Korea-based buyer (July 2016).
  • Sale of a 211,000-square-foot office building to a U.S. life insurance company for $134 million (February 2016).
  • Sale of a 395,000-square-foot office complex to a Germany-based fund for $299 million. (December 2015)
  • Sale of a 52,000-square-foot biomedical lab/office building for $41 million (August 2015).
  • Sale of a 20-acre office complex in Issaquah, Washington, for $128 million (July 2015).
  • Sale of a 315,000-square- foot office building to a U.S. partnership for $251 million (July 2015).
  • Sale of a 104,000-square-foot laboratory/office building to a REIT for $90 million (February 2015).
  • Sale in a single transaction of office buildings totaling approximately 1.6 million square feet to the buildings’ tenant for more than $1.1 billion (December 2012).
  • Sale of five apartment projects in the South Lake Union neighborhood, totaling 872 apartments, for a total of $521 million.
• Represented developers and purchasers in the negotiation and closing of 20 commercial real estate (office) and 10 residential real estate loans worth more than $3 billion. The transactions closed between September 2008 and August 2018.
• Since 2007, Represented landlords in the negotiation of more than 25 leases totaling more than 7.5 million square feet of space for tenants in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood and 3 million square feet in downtown Bellevue.

Honors & Activities

• Selected as one of “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business” (Washington) by Chambers USA (Real Estate), 2017–2023
• Included in The Best Lawyers in America^® (Real Estate Law), 2008–2024
• Named Commercial Real Estate (CRE) Attorney of the Year in inaugural CRE Leadership Awards, Puget Sound Business Journal, 2019
• Member, Environmental Policy Committee, Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce
• Member, Corporate Law Department; member, Environmental and Land Use Law Section, Washington State Bar Association
• Member, American Bar Association
• Member, King County Bar Association
• Selected to Best in the Business: Leading Lawyers in the Puget Sound Region, Seattle Business magazine, Real Estate, 2013
• Selected a Top Lawyer, Seattle Metropolitan magazine, 2010
• AV Preeminent^® Peer Review Rating^™ from Martindale-Hubbell

Insights & Presentations

• “Regional Real Estate Practice Guide: Washington,” Chambers USA: Regional Real Estate guide, 2018
• “Wrap Up Case Studies: War Stories With Real Lessons,” Environmental Due Diligence, Law Seminars International, May 2016
• Co-chair and speaker, “Focus on an Ever-Shifting Landscape: Annual Spring Real Estate Update,” WSBA Real Property, Probate and Trust Section, April 2015

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