Thomas Robertson - Santa Rosa, CA

Tom Robertson is an experienced real estate lawyer with extensive planning and development experience. In 1990 he founded San Francisco North Properties, Inc. (now SCI Office, LLC) and since then has handled its legal affairs and those of its subsidiaries. He has extensive experience in real estate development law forming special purpose entities and documenting private placements, including subscription agreements, offering memoranda, operating agreements, and obtaining project entitlements. He has developed projects in the City and County of San Francisco, Marin County, and the City of Santa Rosa, and placed two projects on the National Register of Historic Places, including the Rosenberg Department Store Building in downtown Santa Rosa which he tenanted with Barnes & Noble.

Most recently he formed a joint venture with IGH Partners, LLC to develop the 300 unit 425 Humboldt Apartment project in downtown Santa Rosa. He handled the project’s entitlements and permits, including all CEQA approvals. The design review application was filed on December 16, 2024, and the Zoning Administrator’s hearing and approval occurred on March 16, 2025, completing the entitlement process in 90 days.

Tom began his legal career at Brown & Wood, a Wall Street firm that represented Merrill Lynch, working on real estate syndications and as a litigator, moved on to Brobeck Phleger & Harrison in San Francisco, and then to the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to gain trial experience. There he won the first case its West Coast Litigation Center tried on behalf of a charging party.

He and his wife will celebrate their 50th anniversary this year. They have a son who is a US Foreign Service Officer.