Shartsis Friese LLP

Real Estate

Counsel

Tom has broad experience handling real estate leasing and purchase and sale transactions, as well as construction, financing, and operational property matters.

Tom brings his broad experience to support the needs of the corporate facilities user, on both simple and complex transactions.  He has represented technology companies as tenants for almost 20 years and understands their needs in particular.  Tom has represented one of the largest artificial intelligence cloud providers for the ground-up development and operation of hyperscale data centers requiring the negotiation of sophisticated lease, ground lease, and title issues in a thorough and time-sensitive way.

His leasing practice also includes the representation of landlords in diverse matters, including sophisticated retail leasing transactions as well as shopping center construction matters requiring leasing expertise as well as fluency with architectural, construction, and development agreements.

University of Southern California Law School, 1994 | University of California, Santa Cruz; B.A., economics and philosophy, 1990