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Margaret (Mig) Schaaf

Of Counsel

T 206.757.8138 Seattle
Leases are like complex puzzles – I make sure the pieces fit my clients’ current and ongoing business needs.
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Mig Schaaf focuses her practice on leases of retail, restaurant, office, healthcare, and industrial properties, representing tenants and landlords in dozens of transactions each year. She helps her clients understand the risks and opportunities inherent in leases and related documents (such as subordination agreements, estoppel certificates, amendments), identify and prioritize key issues, and effectively negotiate to an end result that maximizes her clients’ interests. Unlike many types of legal documents, leases form the basis of a new relationship between landlord and tenant that can last for years or even decades – Mig works hard to launch that relationship well and ensure its strength over the long haul.

Mig's clients have included: Bank of America, Charlie’s Produce, Digipen, Eastern Mountain Sports, Hot Topic, J. Crew, PATH, Qualcomm, The Pokémon Company, Rodda Paint Co., The Seattle Times, Seattle Art Museum, Providence Health System, Rover.com, Sightlife, Starbucks Coffee Company, Thirsty Lion, Tom Douglas Restaurants, T-Mobile, Virginia Mason Medical Center and Western Peterbilt.

Practice Highlights

Tom Douglas Restaurants

Represents Tom Douglas Restaurants in lease negotiations for Seattle area restaurants, including multi-purpose venues containing separate restaurant, café, market, media, catering and outdoor seating spaces.

J. Crew

Served as exclusive outside leasing counsel for clothing and accessories retailer J. Crew, assisting the company in securing hundreds of new store leases totaling thousands of square feet.

Starbucks

Served on a fast-paced team of outside and in-house counsel negotiating leases for Starbucks Coffee Company in locations throughout the U.S. and Canada during a period of rapid growth.

Admitted to Practice

  • Washington, 1982

Education

  • J.D., University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law
    • UCLA Law Review
  • B.A., University of California, Berkeley, with highest honors
    • Phi Beta Kappa

Memberships & Affiliations

    • International Council of Shopping Centers
    • American Bar Association
    • King County Bar Association
    • Session Member, Elder for Personnel, 2012-present – Bethany Presbyterian Church
    • Board Operations Committee, 2007-2008; Board Member, 2001-2008; Chair, Education Committee, 2004-2007; Executive Committee, 2004-2007 – Seattle Children’s Theatre
    • Board Member, 1985-1992; Vice President, Finance, 1989-1991 – YWCA of Seattle-King County
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