JamiBalint
Partner
Real Estate
jbalint@seyfarth.com
Jami is a real estate law advisor built for big deals—data centers and development alike.
More About Jami
Jami advises clients on the full spectrum of transactional real estate and land development matters, with a particular focus on data center, industrial, and build-to-suit leasing transactions. She brings deep experience negotiating complex, large-scale industrial, and digital-infrastructure projects and utilizes her practical, solutions-oriented approach to keep deals moving and get them over the finish line. Jami is known for her uncanny ability to negotiate development agreements—an area where her construction savvy and on-the-ground development insight set her apart from most transactional real estate attorneys. She doesn’t just paper the deal; she understands how facilities actually get built, and she brings that real-world perspective to the negotiating table.
Jami represents developers, owners, tenants, and investors in commercial, industrial, and technology-driven real estate projects. Her work spans commercial leasing, property acquisitions and dispositions, due diligence and feasibility analyses, development strategies, environmental review, and land use permitting. She regularly works with clients across distribution, retail and e-commerce, technology, energy, mining, and timber industries.
Jami has extensive experience leading multimillion-dollar build-to-suit industrial lease negotiations, particularly for e-commerce and logistics clients. She also counsels clients on the acquisition and disposition of occupied commercial properties and vacant land throughout the US.
In the data center space, Jami has represented owners and developers in some of the industry’s largest and most complex transactions. In 2025 alone, she finalized over 3 GW of build-to-suit data center deals. Jami advises clients on site acquisition, entitlements, permitting, and infrastructure coordination for hyperscale and colocation facilities, and helps them navigate local land use requirements and regulatory frameworks. Her work includes structuring transactions involving utility easements, tax incentives, and development agreements tailored to digital-infrastructure needs.
Drawing on her deep background in land use and environmental regulation, Jami helps clients anticipate and navigate the regulatory considerations that intersect with major real estate and data center projects. She leverages her experience with the Clean Water Act and wetlands, subdivision regulations, NEPA/SEPA, floodplain and critical-area rules, the Endangered Species Act, shorelines, water rights, growth management and zoning, traffic mitigation, and historic-landmark considerations to flag potential constraints early and guide clients toward practical, business-driven solutions. Her insight supports development efforts ranging from distribution centers and commercial sites to subdivisions, multifamily communities, master-planned developments, gravel operations, and vineyards.
Prior to private practice, Jami spent more than a decade as in-house counsel to real estate development companies, giving her a practical, business-focused perspective on the challenges owners, tenants, and developers face. She brings that same energy, enthusiasm, and grounded judgment to every negotiation and project she leads.
Jami represents developers, owners, tenants, and investors in commercial, industrial, and technology-driven real estate projects. Her work spans commercial leasing, property acquisitions and dispositions, due diligence and feasibility analyses, development strategies, environmental review, and land use permitting. She regularly works with clients across distribution, retail and e-commerce, technology, energy, mining, and timber industries.
Jami has extensive experience leading multimillion-dollar build-to-suit industrial lease negotiations, particularly for e-commerce and logistics clients. She also counsels clients on the acquisition and disposition of occupied commercial properties and vacant land throughout the US.
In the data center space, Jami has represented owners and developers in some of the industry’s largest and most complex transactions. In 2025 alone, she finalized over 3 GW of build-to-suit data center deals. Jami advises clients on site acquisition, entitlements, permitting, and infrastructure coordination for hyperscale and colocation facilities, and helps them navigate local land use requirements and regulatory frameworks. Her work includes structuring transactions involving utility easements, tax incentives, and development agreements tailored to digital-infrastructure needs.
Drawing on her deep background in land use and environmental regulation, Jami helps clients anticipate and navigate the regulatory considerations that intersect with major real estate and data center projects. She leverages her experience with the Clean Water Act and wetlands, subdivision regulations, NEPA/SEPA, floodplain and critical-area rules, the Endangered Species Act, shorelines, water rights, growth management and zoning, traffic mitigation, and historic-landmark considerations to flag potential constraints early and guide clients toward practical, business-driven solutions. Her insight supports development efforts ranging from distribution centers and commercial sites to subdivisions, multifamily communities, master-planned developments, gravel operations, and vineyards.
Prior to private practice, Jami spent more than a decade as in-house counsel to real estate development companies, giving her a practical, business-focused perspective on the challenges owners, tenants, and developers face. She brings that same energy, enthusiasm, and grounded judgment to every negotiation and project she leads.
- JD, Seattle University School of Law
Cum laude - MPSA, Texas A&M University
Cum laude - BA, University of Washington
Political Science
- Washington
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Real Estate Transactions
- Represented purchasers and users in nearly 670 build-to-suit and acquisition transactions totaling more than 1.2 billion square feet of warehouse, distribution center, and last mile facility space since 2019.
- Represented developers in more than $342 million in land acquisitions across the US for data center development, as well as more than $64 billion in leases for data center users in 2025.
- Represented a natural resources company in the acquisition of 16,000 acres of forest land in Arkansas, more than 11,000 acres in Louisiana, more than 50,000 acres of timberland.
- Represented an institutional investor in the disposition of a $100 million, occupied office building.
- Represented a Fortune 100 company in the disposition of a $116 million industrial complex.
- Assisted private developer clients in obtaining preliminary plat approval for several subdivisions resulting in hundreds of single-family lots.
Data Center Transactions
- Represented one of the world’s largest technology companies in numerous matters related to data center development and leasing, including negotiation of a build-to-suit agreement for a mega-scale 1.4 Gigawatt campus encompassing 10 data centers in Texas.
- Represented a data center developer in the negotiation of a $1 billion build-to-suit data center lease agreement with a multinational technology company for two buildings in the Midwest.
- Represented a private data center developer in the $93 million acquisition of four properties for the development of data centers in Arizona, Ohio, Utah, and Texas.
- Represented a sustainable data center platform in multiple raw land acquisitions and assisted with development matters. One of the acquisitions included a sustainable data center, featuring 180 megawatts of capacity, waterless cooling, and a 1.15 Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating on a campus near downtown Atlanta. In addition, our team assisted with site acquisition, diligence, development, and construction, as well as resolving zoning, entitlement, and infrastructure issues, including power.
- Assisted with diligence, permitting, acquisition, and negotiation of development agreements for multiple projects across the US, including a three-building data center campus in Georgia, a three-building data center campus in Illinois, and data centers in Ohio and Arizona.
- Assisted with the acquisition of a warehouse building in Dallas, Texas and permitting to retrofit the data center.
- Assisted with diligence, permitting, and negotiation of a joint venture land contribution agreement for the development of two data centers in Utah.
- Represented the owner in negotiating construction financing for a five-property data center portfolio.
Related News & Insights
-
Legal Update
Jun 15, 2026
Real Estate: Market Pulse (June 2026)
-
Legal Update
Apr 15, 2026
Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2026)
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Recognition
Apr 13, 2026
Jami Balint Selected as a 2026 Woman of Influence by GlobeSt
-
Speaking Engagement
Mar 19, 2026
Seyfarth to Sponsor and Catherine Burns to Speak at Greenpearl's 15th Annual Real Estate Women's Forum
- Recognized as a Recommended Attorney for Real Estate, The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2026)
- Recognized as a "Ones to Watch" lawyer by Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Real Estate Law (2023-2026)
- Recognized as an "Up and Coming" attorney for Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (Washington) by Chambers USA (2022-2025)
- The Conference Board, CED Fellowship (2024-present)
- City of Enumclaw Planning Commission, former member
- CREW Seattle, member
- NAIOP Washington, member
- Urban Land Institute, member
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (June 2026),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 15, 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2026),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 15, 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (December 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 10, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (October 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 8, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (July 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 9, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 30, 2025)
- Author, "What To Expect From Evolving Wash. Development Plans," Law360 (August 22, 2024)
- Moderator, "Data Centers & The Power Grid," NAIOP Washington (April 22, 2026)
- Moderator, "PNW Industrial Market Outlook: Site Selection and Investment Strategies," BISNOW Pacific Northwest Industrial & Logistics Summit (July 31, 2024)
- Co-Speaker, "The Property Line: Let’s Get this Project Started," Podcast, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 29, 2024)
- Moderator, "Identifying Opportunities in an Evolving Market," BISNOW Seattle Industrial Summit (July 11, 2023)
- Speaker, The Property Line Podcast – Current Trends and Challenges in Industrial Real Estate Transactions, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 22, 2022)
- Moderator, "How Far Will the Last Mile Reach?" Panel, NAIOP Washington State Chapter (November 18, 2020)
- Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, board of directors (2022-2024)
Jami is a real estate law advisor built for big deals—data centers and development alike.
More About Jami
Jami advises clients on the full spectrum of transactional real estate and land development matters, with a particular focus on data center, industrial, and build-to-suit leasing transactions. She brings deep experience negotiating complex, large-scale industrial, and digital-infrastructure projects and utilizes her practical, solutions-oriented approach to keep deals moving and get them over the finish line. Jami is known for her uncanny ability to negotiate development agreements—an area where her construction savvy and on-the-ground development insight set her apart from most transactional real estate attorneys. She doesn’t just paper the deal; she understands how facilities actually get built, and she brings that real-world perspective to the negotiating table.
Jami represents developers, owners, tenants, and investors in commercial, industrial, and technology-driven real estate projects. Her work spans commercial leasing, property acquisitions and dispositions, due diligence and feasibility analyses, development strategies, environmental review, and land use permitting. She regularly works with clients across distribution, retail and e-commerce, technology, energy, mining, and timber industries.
Jami has extensive experience leading multimillion-dollar build-to-suit industrial lease negotiations, particularly for e-commerce and logistics clients. She also counsels clients on the acquisition and disposition of occupied commercial properties and vacant land throughout the US.
In the data center space, Jami has represented owners and developers in some of the industry’s largest and most complex transactions. In 2025 alone, she finalized over 3 GW of build-to-suit data center deals. Jami advises clients on site acquisition, entitlements, permitting, and infrastructure coordination for hyperscale and colocation facilities, and helps them navigate local land use requirements and regulatory frameworks. Her work includes structuring transactions involving utility easements, tax incentives, and development agreements tailored to digital-infrastructure needs.
Drawing on her deep background in land use and environmental regulation, Jami helps clients anticipate and navigate the regulatory considerations that intersect with major real estate and data center projects. She leverages her experience with the Clean Water Act and wetlands, subdivision regulations, NEPA/SEPA, floodplain and critical-area rules, the Endangered Species Act, shorelines, water rights, growth management and zoning, traffic mitigation, and historic-landmark considerations to flag potential constraints early and guide clients toward practical, business-driven solutions. Her insight supports development efforts ranging from distribution centers and commercial sites to subdivisions, multifamily communities, master-planned developments, gravel operations, and vineyards.
Prior to private practice, Jami spent more than a decade as in-house counsel to real estate development companies, giving her a practical, business-focused perspective on the challenges owners, tenants, and developers face. She brings that same energy, enthusiasm, and grounded judgment to every negotiation and project she leads.
Jami represents developers, owners, tenants, and investors in commercial, industrial, and technology-driven real estate projects. Her work spans commercial leasing, property acquisitions and dispositions, due diligence and feasibility analyses, development strategies, environmental review, and land use permitting. She regularly works with clients across distribution, retail and e-commerce, technology, energy, mining, and timber industries.
Jami has extensive experience leading multimillion-dollar build-to-suit industrial lease negotiations, particularly for e-commerce and logistics clients. She also counsels clients on the acquisition and disposition of occupied commercial properties and vacant land throughout the US.
In the data center space, Jami has represented owners and developers in some of the industry’s largest and most complex transactions. In 2025 alone, she finalized over 3 GW of build-to-suit data center deals. Jami advises clients on site acquisition, entitlements, permitting, and infrastructure coordination for hyperscale and colocation facilities, and helps them navigate local land use requirements and regulatory frameworks. Her work includes structuring transactions involving utility easements, tax incentives, and development agreements tailored to digital-infrastructure needs.
Drawing on her deep background in land use and environmental regulation, Jami helps clients anticipate and navigate the regulatory considerations that intersect with major real estate and data center projects. She leverages her experience with the Clean Water Act and wetlands, subdivision regulations, NEPA/SEPA, floodplain and critical-area rules, the Endangered Species Act, shorelines, water rights, growth management and zoning, traffic mitigation, and historic-landmark considerations to flag potential constraints early and guide clients toward practical, business-driven solutions. Her insight supports development efforts ranging from distribution centers and commercial sites to subdivisions, multifamily communities, master-planned developments, gravel operations, and vineyards.
Prior to private practice, Jami spent more than a decade as in-house counsel to real estate development companies, giving her a practical, business-focused perspective on the challenges owners, tenants, and developers face. She brings that same energy, enthusiasm, and grounded judgment to every negotiation and project she leads.
- JD, Seattle University School of Law
Cum laude - MPSA, Texas A&M University
Cum laude - BA, University of Washington
Political Science
- Washington
Related Services
Related Key Industries
Real Estate Transactions
- Represented purchasers and users in nearly 670 build-to-suit and acquisition transactions totaling more than 1.2 billion square feet of warehouse, distribution center, and last mile facility space since 2019.
- Represented developers in more than $342 million in land acquisitions across the US for data center development, as well as more than $64 billion in leases for data center users in 2025.
- Represented a natural resources company in the acquisition of 16,000 acres of forest land in Arkansas, more than 11,000 acres in Louisiana, more than 50,000 acres of timberland.
- Represented an institutional investor in the disposition of a $100 million, occupied office building.
- Represented a Fortune 100 company in the disposition of a $116 million industrial complex.
- Assisted private developer clients in obtaining preliminary plat approval for several subdivisions resulting in hundreds of single-family lots.
Data Center Transactions
- Represented one of the world’s largest technology companies in numerous matters related to data center development and leasing, including negotiation of a build-to-suit agreement for a mega-scale 1.4 Gigawatt campus encompassing 10 data centers in Texas.
- Represented a data center developer in the negotiation of a $1 billion build-to-suit data center lease agreement with a multinational technology company for two buildings in the Midwest.
- Represented a private data center developer in the $93 million acquisition of four properties for the development of data centers in Arizona, Ohio, Utah, and Texas.
- Represented a sustainable data center platform in multiple raw land acquisitions and assisted with development matters. One of the acquisitions included a sustainable data center, featuring 180 megawatts of capacity, waterless cooling, and a 1.15 Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating on a campus near downtown Atlanta. In addition, our team assisted with site acquisition, diligence, development, and construction, as well as resolving zoning, entitlement, and infrastructure issues, including power.
- Assisted with diligence, permitting, acquisition, and negotiation of development agreements for multiple projects across the US, including a three-building data center campus in Georgia, a three-building data center campus in Illinois, and data centers in Ohio and Arizona.
- Assisted with the acquisition of a warehouse building in Dallas, Texas and permitting to retrofit the data center.
- Assisted with diligence, permitting, and negotiation of a joint venture land contribution agreement for the development of two data centers in Utah.
- Represented the owner in negotiating construction financing for a five-property data center portfolio.
Related News & Insights
-
Legal Update
Jun 15, 2026
Real Estate: Market Pulse (June 2026)
-
Legal Update
Apr 15, 2026
Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2026)
-
Recognition
Apr 13, 2026
Jami Balint Selected as a 2026 Woman of Influence by GlobeSt
-
Speaking Engagement
Mar 19, 2026
Seyfarth to Sponsor and Catherine Burns to Speak at Greenpearl's 15th Annual Real Estate Women's Forum
- Recognized as a Recommended Attorney for Real Estate, The Legal 500 (Legalese Ltd.) (2026)
- Recognized as a "Ones to Watch" lawyer by Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.) for Real Estate Law (2023-2026)
- Recognized as an "Up and Coming" attorney for Real Estate: Zoning/Land Use (Washington) by Chambers USA (2022-2025)
- The Conference Board, CED Fellowship (2024-present)
- City of Enumclaw Planning Commission, former member
- CREW Seattle, member
- NAIOP Washington, member
- Urban Land Institute, member
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (June 2026),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (June 15, 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2026),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 15, 2026)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (December 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (December 10, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (October 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (October 8, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (July 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (July 9, 2025)
- Co-Author, “Real Estate: Market Pulse (April 2025),” Legal Update, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (April 30, 2025)
- Author, "What To Expect From Evolving Wash. Development Plans," Law360 (August 22, 2024)
- Moderator, "Data Centers & The Power Grid," NAIOP Washington (April 22, 2026)
- Moderator, "PNW Industrial Market Outlook: Site Selection and Investment Strategies," BISNOW Pacific Northwest Industrial & Logistics Summit (July 31, 2024)
- Co-Speaker, "The Property Line: Let’s Get this Project Started," Podcast, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (January 29, 2024)
- Moderator, "Identifying Opportunities in an Evolving Market," BISNOW Seattle Industrial Summit (July 11, 2023)
- Speaker, The Property Line Podcast – Current Trends and Challenges in Industrial Real Estate Transactions, Seyfarth Shaw LLP (February 22, 2022)
- Moderator, "How Far Will the Last Mile Reach?" Panel, NAIOP Washington State Chapter (November 18, 2020)
- Evergreen Mountain Bike Alliance, board of directors (2022-2024)