Parsons Behle & Latimer (Parsons) is pleased to welcome Scott C. Burns to its Boise office. Burns is a seasoned and practical real estate and business lawyer with extensive experience in transactional work and commercial litigation. Burns advises corporations, developers, commercial real estate owner-operators, private equity and high net worth individual investors in the development, ownership and operation, leasing, acquisition and disposition of real estate assets.
Burns says, “I am excited to join Parsons Behle & Latimer, and I look forward to working with its talented and experienced attorneys. Joining Parsons allows me to help my clients achieve their desired results as part of Parsons’ reasoned and sustainable approach to providing the highest quality legal services to operating businesses and individual clients. The opportunity to work with sophisticated clients from an esteemed, full-service law firm, combined with the value proposition offered by Parsons’ favorable rate structure, was simply too compelling to resist.”
A former business leader in the retail, restaurant and healthcare industries, Burns delivers business-minded counsel to companies pursuing new real estate opportunities or looking to right-size their footprint. He advises institutions, REITs, investors and developers in transactions involving both individual real property assets and broader real estate portfolios and assists clients with their nationwide real estate needs. Burns also has significant experience serving as a real estate specialist in corporate mergers and acquisitions. Burns began his career as a litigator and continues to provide strategic guidance and manage litigation for his clients in commercial and real property disputes.
Boise Office Managing Shareholder Norman M. Semanko says, “Scott Burns brings to our nationally-ranked real estate practice, a depth and diversity of experience that will benefit a wide range of Parsons’ real estate clients from business owners to investors. Scott’s legal knowledge coupled with his business experience make him a leading real estate attorney in the Boise area. We couldn’t be more pleased to welcome Scott to our office.”
