The Newport Beach, CA-based firm opens an office here in Seattle and adds net leased expert Christoffersen to the firm. Thomas Co.’s Seattle office will serve clients nationally and also provide Seattle-area owners of net leased real estate a boutique brokerage firm with the ability to direct national capital to Seattle-area assets. Additionally, the firm’s expertise in sale-leaseback transactions will provide a national platform for local companies looking to unlock under-utilized capital by selling and leasing back company-owned real estate. Christoffersen is an analyst who in his decade-long career has overseen underwriting of more than $5.2-billion worth of net leased assets across a variety of property types.