Bellevue Commercial Transactions Lawyers

The client journey

Wherever you are in the life of the building.

Every commercial asset moves through the same four chapters — only the years change. Pick the chapter you’re working through.

▍ 01 / Acquiring & Underwriting

From the offering memo to the recorded deed.

Whether you’re adding a single building or rolling proceeds from a sale, the acquisition is where the next ten years of ownership get shaped. We negotiate purchase agreements, structure ownership, handle financing, and run the diligence that surfaces the leases, encumbrances, and entitlement issues before they become yours.

→Purchase & sale agreements; LOI negotiation
→Title, survey, lease, and ALTA-survey diligence
→Acquisition financing and loan-document review
→Entity structuring (LLCs, TICs, partnerships)
→Closing coordination with escrow, lender, and broker

▍ 02 / Operating & Managing

The unglamorous, essential middle.

Most of an owner’s legal calendar lives here: property-management agreements, vendor contracts, insurance review, easement and boundary work, the slow back-and-forth with adjacent owners and jurisdictions. We’re the lawyer on retainer who picks up the phone before something becomes a problem.

→Property-management & brokerage engagement letters
→Vendor, service, and construction contracts
→Easements, encroachments, and boundary cleanups
→Insurance review & loss-recovery counsel
→Risk-allocation and indemnification analysis

▍ 03 / Leasing & Tenant Relations

Where the value actually lives.

An asset is worth what its leases say it’s worth. We draft and negotiate commercial leases on the landlord side, advise on TI packages and concession structures, handle defaults and unlawful detainer when they come, and make sure assignment, recovery, and exclusive provisions don’t quietly erode the next sale.

→Office, retail, industrial, and mixed-use leases
→Lease amendments, renewals, and assignment review
→Tenant defaults, workouts, and unlawful detainer
→Subordination, non-disturbance & attornment (SNDA)
→Estoppels and lender / buyer comfort packages

▍ 04 / Repositioning & Exit

Hold, sell, refinance, or exchange.

When the asset is ready for its next chapter — a refinance, a value-add reposition, a sale to an institutional buyer, or a 1031 exchange into something new — we structure the transition with the long view in mind. The estate plan, the family partnership, and the next generation are usually in the room.

→Sell-side counsel & buyer-due-diligence response
→Refinancings and assumption transactions
→1031 exchanges (forward, reverse, improvement)
→Repositioning, capex programs, and value-add planning
→Contributions into family partnerships or trusts

Counsel for the people who hold the keys.

Wherever you are in the life of the building.

From the offering memo to the recorded deed.

The unglamorous, essential middle.

Where the value actually lives.

Hold, sell, refinance, or exchange.

The attorneys you’ll actually work with.

William Hsu

Thomas Hansen

Connor Rankin

David Tall

James Clark

Dennis Brislawn

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Recent work.

A family LLC adds a Class B office building in Bellevue.

Refreshed the lease form across a six-building portfolio.

Long-held suburban retail center, refinanced into permanent debt.

Anchor tenant claims constructive eviction during a roof replacement.

Holding commercial property and want a steady hand on the file? Let’s talk.