Perkins Coie Signs Lease for New Austin Office at 405 Colorado Street Amid Continued Texas Growth
Perkins Coie and Brandywine Realty Trust announced today that the leading international law firm has signed a multi-year lease for over 18,000 square feet of state-of-the-art office space at 405 Colorado Street, a new trophy class office building in downtown Austin. Perkins Coie will occupy the 17th floor of the building beginning in early 2022 amid a continued expansion of its Texas operations.
With a reputation for serving many of the most prominent names in the global technology industry, Perkins Coie’s presence in Austin has quickly grown to 16 lawyers and 9 professional staff since entering the Austin market in February of 2020 with three lawyers.
The new 25-story 405 Colorado Street building is a Class-A building located in downtown Austin. Stephen Bay, Patrick Moody, Gregg Pasternack and Marc Vanderslice of CBRE represented Perkins Coie on the deal, while Troy Holme, Casey Ford and Katie Ekstrom of CBRE represented Brandywine Realty Trust, the building’s developers.
Perkins Coie ranked at 23 on Fortune’s “100 Best Companies to Work For®” for 2021 as one of America’s leading employers and workplaces. Perkins Coie has been included in Working Mother’s list of “Best Law Firms for Women” 12 times and was recognized by Microsoft as the 2020 “Top Performer” in its Law Firm Diversity Program. The firm also achieved Mansfield 3.0 Certification Plus from Diversity Lab in 2020, which measures how leading law firms have affirmatively considered women, attorneys of color, LGBTQ+ attorneys, and attorneys with disabilities for recruitment, equity partner promotions, and management positions among other benchmarks.
Perkins Coie is a leading international law firm that is known for providing high value, strategic solutions and extraordinary client service on matters vital to our clients’ success. With more than 1,200 attorneys in offices across the United States and Asia, we provide a full array of corporate, commercial litigation, intellectual property, and regulatory legal advice to a broad range of clients, including many of the world’s most innovative companies and industry leaders as well as public and not-for-profit organizations.
