Overview
Keith Seo advises national and multinational corporations, as well as regional and local businesses, on a wide range of real estate transactions, development projects, and construction-related matters. He represents property owners and operators, developers, landlords, tenants, buyers, and sellers in transactions throughout the United States and Canada.
Recognized by clients for his speed, efficiency, and accuracy in managing a high volume of complex transactions, Keith provides counsel on:
- Purchases and sales, including industrial, multifamily, commercial, hotel and mixed-use developments, and related financing.
- Leases, including office, industrial, and retail leases, and specialty leases such as data center and cell tower leases
- Real estate development and construction matters, including build-to-suit developments, development and construction agreements, infrastructure and utility improvements, and related project obligations.
Keith has extensive experience advising clients on developing and constructing large-scale industrial, distribution, logistics, and other commercial facilities. His practice includes negotiating complex development and construction agreements, allocating construction-related risks and responsibilities, and addressing infrastructure development, utility improvements, and other obligations associated with the development and construction of commercial facilities.
Keith regularly advises businesses in the retail, technology, logistics, and distribution sectors on real estate transactions and development projects critical to their operations and long-term business objectives.
Before practicing law, Keith wrote columns for a Korean newspaper and worked as a translator for international businesses. He is a native speaker of Korean and is proficient in Spanish and Japanese.
Keith enjoys strength training and photography, and cares about animal welfare.
Credentials
Education
- Seattle University School of Law
JD, magna cum laude
Seattle University, Law Review - University of Washington
BA, International Studies; BA, Spanish
Admissions
- Washington
Awards & Accolades
- Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® for Real Estate Law since 2027
- Washington Super Lawyers, “Super Lawyer,” Real Estate (since 2022); Rising Star (2016-2019)
Memberships
- King County Bar Association
- Asian Bar Association of Washington
Publications & Speaking Engagements
- “Subordination, Non-disturbance and Attornments and Estoppels,” 20th Annual Fall Real Estate Seminar: Real Estate Forms and Provisions (December 2013)
Experience
Representative Matters
- Represented a publicly held online retailer in more than 400 industrial, datacenter and office leasing, acquisition and development transactions ranging in value from $1 million to $600 million.
- Represented one of the largest homebuilders in the United States in land acquisitions and asset dispositions throughout the Pacific Northwest.
- Represented a publicly held warehouse club retailer in various real estate transactions throughout North America.
- Represented a utility provider in more than 50 telecom colocation transactions involving institutional providers.
- Represented a publicly held technology company in a 40-acre campus site acquisition and development, as well as office and datacenter leasing and colocation transactions.
- Advised one of the largest privately held retailers in the United States on construction agreement processes and prepared construction agreements for its build-to-suit flagship stores.
- Represented a utility provider in more than 15 purchase and sale transactions, including a sale of a hydroelectric facility, as well as over 10 large-scale easement transactions supporting substations and transmission/distribution lines throughout Washington.
- Represented one of the world’s largest video game developers in various office and industrial leasing transactions.
- Represented a major credit union in corporate campus expansion projects.
- Represented major restaurateurs in more than 20 financing, purchase, leasing and development transactions in the greater Seattle area.
- Represented a developer/operator of boutique hotels in nearly two dozen financing, purchase and sale, leasing, development and management transactions in Washington, Oregon, California and Illinois.
- Provided general counsel to businesses on day-to-day operations, including secured financing transactions, distribution/brokerage agreements, master services agreements and corporate governance.