Representative Experience
Commercial property acquisitions, sales and exchanges

Real estate development and joint ventures

Leasing transactions, including office, industrial, retail and ground leases

Real estate financing

Specialized real estate counseling for medical centers, research laboratory facilities and aircraft facilities

Restaurant acquisition, leasing and franchise transactions

Representative Clients
Apple American Group LLC

Banner Bank

Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center

Flynn Properties Inc.

Hines Interests Limited Partnership

Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

Memberships and Activities
American Bar Association

Washington State Bar

Seattle-King County Bar Association

Listed in the “Best Lawyers in America,” by Woodward/White (1996-2008); also named as one of the “Best Lawyers in America” in Real Estate Law by Woodward/White (2007, 2008)

Listed in Chambers USA (2004-2008); Who’s Who in American Law (over 20 years); and selected to “Super Lawyers,” Washington Law and Politics (2001-2007)

Listed as one of Puget Sound's Top Business Lawyers by Seattle Business Monthly (2006, 2007); listed in Seattle Magazine’s 155 Top Lawyers (2007)

Education
J.D., Hastings College of Law, University of California, 1980

B.A. in Political Science, University of California at Berkeley, 1976

Community Activities
Bertschi School, Board Trustee

Seattle Habitat for Humanity, former Board Trustee and Officer

Actively involved in community efforts supporting affordable housing development in the Seattle area

Representative Projects
Real estate and land use counsel for Children’s Hospital for acquisition and development of planned 1,000,000 square foot Research Center in Seattle.

General counsel for Apple American Group LLC, restaurant holding company with over 135 Applebee’s franchised restaurants in eight states.

Real estate counsel to Banner Bank for facilities site acquisition and leasing in Oregon and Washington.

Represented Hines Interests and National Office Properties LP in site acquisition, development, leasing and disposition of IDX Tower, a 40 story, Class A high-rise office tower in the Seattle central business district, with 810,000 square feet of office space.

Represented Seattle Biomedical Research Institute in its 55,000 square foot anchor lease at, and equity investment in, a new state-of-the-art biomedical research laboratory facility in Seattle’s South Lake Union.

Represented the ownership group of 225 Bush Street in the $170 million sale of a 575,000 square foot office building in San Francisco’s financial center.

Negotiated the long-term ground lease for development of a multi-story-patient treatment and headquarters facility for Seattle Cancer Care Alliance.

Represented Bank of America, the owner of Bank of America Tower, a 76 story high-rise office tower in Seattle, Washington, in the $404 million sale of the building, including the bank’s major lease-back of office and retail space.

Represented the owner of U.S. Bank Centre, a 44 story high-rise office and retail project in downtown Seattle, in a $237 million sale transaction.

Represented Hines Interests in the site acquisition, development, lease and sale of Cedar Court, a four building, 430,000 square foot office complex in Redmond, Washington.

Represented Hines Interests in the site acquisition, development, leasing and sale of 112th @ 12th, a three building, 480,000 square foot office project in Bellevue, Washington.

Represented various clients in the acquisition, development, leasing and disposition of aircraft-related properties and facilities in multiple states, including the sale of an FBO (flight based operation) business and the development of new state-of-the-art jet aircraft hangar facilities in several states.