Seattle — June 2, 2025
Key takeaways
- Jessica Mitchell and Landon Sullivan join BakerHostetler in Seattle as Partners in the Business Practice Group and members of the Real Estate practice team.
- Mitchell joins from a leading Pacific Northwest law firm, where she spent several years as the leader of its real estate practice group. Sullivan joins from a major international law firm and previously served as senior corporate counsel for a major e-commerce company.
- As BakerHostetler’s Seattle office celebrates its 25th anniversary, this duo’s arrival helps demonstrate the firm’s commitment to strategic growth, particularly on the West Coast. In the past five years, the firm has added nearly 120 attorneys in its Seattle, Los Angeles, Orange County and San Francisco offices.
Why this matters
Mitchell and Sullivan further strengthen the Seattle office’s real estate and transactional capabilities. They bring deep experience and qualifications to further grow and develop the firm’s real estate practice on the West Coast as well as nationally. In addition, they join a team of highly skilled attorneys who assist clients in structuring and negotiating complex and sophisticated real estate transactions.
Key quote
“Jessica and Landon are a great fit to our growing real estate team,” said John Allotta, chair of BakerHostetler’s Business Practice Group. “Their arrival reinforces BakerHostetler’s commitment to adding skilled attorneys who provide exceptional client service on the West coast.”
About Mitchell’s practice
Mitchell specializes in acquisitions and dispositions, complex, multiparty large-scale build to suit developments and industrial, retail, and office leasing.
Mitchell advises clients in a broad range of industries, including banking, retail, technology and professional services. She has worked with small to large companies in addition to a large multinational e-commerce and technology company, regularly providing clients with full service on projects, from inception through due diligence and completion.
Mitchell earned an LLM from the University of Washington Law School, an LLB from Griffith University Law School and a B.A. from Griffith University.
About Sullivan’s practice
Sullivan is a real estate transactional attorney with both in-house and private practice experience counseling clients in acquisitions and dispositions, build-to-suit projects, economic development incentives, real estate leasing and financing, and other real estate transaction types. He has advised on multiple asset classes, including industrial, data center, retail, office, multifamily and mixed-use properties.
Sullivan has worked with Fortune 100 companies in conducting due diligence and feasibility analyses, advising on land use and entitlements matters, negotiating contracts, and handling complex closings. He has represented numerous technology companies, including a world-leading e-commerce and technology company, on real estate transactions.
Sullivan also served as senior corporate counsel for a multinational e-commerce and technology company, where he led an in-house legal team that provided support for all real estate acquisition, development and leasing transactions as well as asset management issues for the company’s entire customer fulfillment network.
Sullivan earned both his J.D. and his B.S. from Brigham Young University.
Key quote
“I am thrilled to welcome Jessica and Landon to our Seattle office. Their experience with all types of transactions and asset classes will be invaluable for our clients’ real estate needs,” said Timothy D. Casey, partner-in-charge of the Seattle office. “As the Seattle office celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, their arrival showcases our commitment to strategic growth in the Pacific Northwest.”
BakerHostetler’s Business Practice Group handles thousands of corporate transactions each year. The full-service team, consisting of more than 280 attorneys in offices across the United States, has extensive experience closing all varieties of transactions — including mergers and acquisitions and private equity, real estate, debt finance, capital markets and securities, health care and regulatory, restructuring and bankruptcy, emerging companies and venture capital, commercial transactions, and other matters central to a company’s success. A national group with a global reach, BakerHostetler’s Business Practice Group is consistently named a go-to firm by both Chambers USA and Legal 500. For more information, visit bakerlaw.com/services/business/. Connect with us on LinkedIn at @BakerHostetler, @JohnAllotta, @TimothyCasey, @JessicaMitchell or @LandonSullivan or on the social platform X at @BakerHostetler.
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