Current Employment Position(s)

Member, since 2008

Lawyer Overview

Member with practice emphasizing real estate and real estate finance including counseling investors, purchasers, sellers, developers, borrowers, secured and mezzanine lenders, owners and tenants and portfolio and property managers in investments, joint ventures and transactions involving industrial, retail, office, multi-family, condominiums, hospitality and mixed-use projects. Experience and familiarity with a broad range of real estate and land use matters, including acquisitions, sales, leasing, development, land use, zoning and entity structuring. Leasing experience includes office, industrial, retail and restaurant leasing, subleasing and advising on day-to-day property management issues.

Areas of Practice

• Real Estate
• Hospitality

West Practice Categories

Real Estate Law

Bar Admissions

• California, 2004
• Washington, 2003
• Illinois, 1999

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association (Member)
• Washington State Bar Association (Member)
• King County Bar Association (Member)

Honors and Awards

• Rising Star, Washington Law & Politics, 2007

Classes and Seminars

• Speaker, A Road Map for Protecting Legitimate and Competing Interests of Commercial and Residential Condominium Owners and Uses and the Declarant, Hot Issues in Real Estate and Land Use Development, Seattle WA - March 2007

Past Employment Positions

• Foster Pepper PLLC, Associate, 2005 - 2008
• Preston Gates & Ellis LLP - Seattle, Washington, Associate-Real Estate Group, 2003 - 2005
• Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP - Chicago, Illinois, Associate-Real Estate Group, 1999 - 2003

Education

• The University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1999
  J.D.
• University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1996
  B.A.
  Honors: With Distinction
  Major: Economics

Address

1111 Third Avenue
Suite 3400
Seattle, WA 98101-3299

Phones

(206) 447-8933

Faxes

(206) 749-1933

Emails

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Websites

http://www.foster.com