Cassidy Turley BT Commercial – Northern California’s Leading Commercial Real Estate Firm

Professional Profile

Michael Courson

Title: Partner

Specialties: Office, R&D

Cassidy Turley BT Commercial, Palo Alto
1950 University Avenue, Suite 220
East Palo Alto, CA 94303
Phone: 650-320-0205
License # 01358961
Email: mcourson@ctbt.com

My Listings: View My Listings

Scope of Service Experience:

Working primarily in the Silicon Valley and Mid-Peninsula, Mike's primary focus is the sale and lease of office and R&D buildings.

Education

University of California, Santa Barbara

Background & Experience

BT Commercial 2002 – present
Service-Source, Inc. 1999-2002

Professional Affiliations & Designations

Member, Association of Silicon Valley Brokers
Member, Pursuit of Excellence for BT Commercial each year since 2006

Significant Transactions

Selected Major Lease Transactions
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NETGEAR (San Jose) / CarrAmerica - 142,700SF

Riverbed Technology (San Francisco & Sunnyvale) - 130,000* SF

Gunderson, Dettmer, Slough, Villenueve, Franklin & Hachigian, LLP / Starwood Capital Group - 98,022 SF

Mountain View Sublease / Palo Alto Medical Foundation - Over 80,000 SF

Cepheid, Inc. (Sunnyvale) / Arden Realty - 76,000 SF

AKAMAI Technologies / Lowe Enterprises - 66,945 SF

GAL Brisbane (Brisbane) / Cutera LLC (formerly AltusMed.) - 66,002 SF

MPTP Holdings LLC (Redwood City) / Claria Inc - 64,727 SF

Menlo Equities (Redwood Shores) / Visto Corporation - 52,905 SF

University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Clara) / SFF Realty Fund - 40,710 SF

Selected Major Sale Transactions
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Castro Station, Mt. View / SSF Realty Fund - 64,370 SF

Sand Hill Commons, Menlo Park / ING Clarion - 133,036 SF

Mid-Point Technology Park, Redwood City / Stanford - 898,278 SF (***Winner of the 2005 Suburban Office Sale of the Year & Winner of the 2005 Suburban Community Impact awarded by the San Francisco Business Times***)

755 Mathilda & 680 Vaqueros, Sunnyvale / CP/IPERS Sunnyvale LLC - 105,000 SF

Embarcadero Corporate Center, Palo Alto / Embarcadero Capital Partners - 99,157 SF

Selected Class A Office Leases in Palo Alto & Menlo Park

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Palantir Technologies / Numerous transaction in Downtown Palo Alto totaling ±100,000* SF

Venrock / California Family Foundation - 3340 Hillview, Palo Alto, CA - 19,800

Bay Partners / Pacific Valley Investors - 490 California Ave, Palo Alto, CA - 14,849* SF

First Virtual Management LLC - 270 University, Palo Alto, CA - 9,046 SF

KKR / ING Clarion - 2882 Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA - 8,650 SF

Battery Ventures / Sand Hill Commons - Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA - 8,563 SF

Artiman Mgmt (s/l)/ Greenberg Traurig - University Circle, Palo Alto, CA - 8,541 SF

Hercules Technology Growth Capital - 400 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA - 12,757* SF

De Novo Ventures - 400 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA - 6,186 SF

TriplePoint Capital Partners - 2755 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA - 7,970* SF

Opus Capital - 2730 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA - 5,680 SF

GI Partners - 2180 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA - 5,310 SF

Meritech Capital - 245 Lytton Ave, Palo Alto, CA - 5,208 SF

Charles River Ventures - 2882 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, CA - 4,960 SF

Texas Pacific Group Ventures - Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA - 4,960 SF

Apercen Partners - 314 Lytton Avenue, Palo Alto, CA - 4,606 SF

Shasta Ventures Management - Quadrus, Sand Hill Rd, Menlo Park, CA - 4,363 SF

IAC / TMI, LLC - 490 California, Palo Alto, CA - 4,238 SF

Formative Ventures Management - 2061 Avy Ave, Menlo Park,CA - 3,646 SF

Start Up Ventures Management Co, LLC - 100 Hamilton Ave, Palo Alto, CA - 3,197 SF
*Indicates 2 or more transactions

Selected Significant Client Relationships

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ING/Clarion

Mozart Development

PSAI Realty Partners

Starwood Capital Group

TMG Partners

Wells REIT