Seyfarth Expands Real Estate Team with New Seattle Partners Courtney Seim and Ian Sutton

SEATTLE -- (May 23, 2022) -- Seyfarth announced today the arrivals of partners Courtney L. Seim and Ian T. Sutton to its Real Estate department in Seattle. Seim and Sutton were most recently Real Estate and Environmental partners at Seattle’s Summit Law Group.

Seim’s real estate practice focuses on eminent domain, easement issues, and title disputes, and she has worked on a number of power generation and transmission projects serving the Puget Sound region. Her environmental practice involves enforcement and remediation actions, claims for natural resource damages, and business and real estate transactions involving contaminated sites and other environmental constraints. Seim earned a J.D. from the University of California (UC) Davis School of Law where she was the managing editor of the UC Davis Law Review. She received a B.A. from the University of Washington.

Sutton’s commercial real estate practice focuses on both commercial real estate transactions and development. He advises clients on complex negotiations and documentation for all types of sales, acquisitions, and leasing. In addition, Sutton also advises clients on evaluating, managing, and resolving environmental liability risk including allocating environmental liability in real estate transactions, environmental cleanup , and cost recovery. He earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from the Seattle University School of Law where he was a notes and comments editor for the Seattle University Law Review. He received a B.A. from Denison University.

“Courtney and Ian are tremendously skilled lawyers with substantial experience in all of the environmental facets of property development,” said Paul Mattingly, chair of Seyfarth’s Real Estate department. “As we continue to see more development projects across the country, their practices will flourish on Seyfarth’s premier platform.”

“Like the greater Seattle business community, we know Courtney and Ian as wonderful people and respected professionals. Their additions add important depth to our national real estate team and we’re thrilled to welcome them as the newest members of our growing office,” the co-managing partners of Seyfarth’s Seattle office, Denice Tokunaga and Tom Wybenga, said in a joint statement.

Seim and Sutton are the latest partners to join Seyfarth’s global platform. Earlier this year, the firm added Kamran Mirrafati, Paul Haswell, Meghan Douris, Ashley Sherwood, Jamie Rich, Jacob Cherry, Seth Liebenstein, Christy Kiely, Sofia Bargellini, Michael Jordan, and Arnold Brown.

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