Chris Addicott

Senior Attorney
HCMP

Chris Addicott has deep roots in Washington State, and a strong passion for the HomeAid’s mission of building a future without homelessness.  His great-grandparents Alpha and Fred Olmstead moved to Grandview in 1918, where his family has been farming for many generations, and he grew up in Bellingham and Mukilteo.  Chris first encountered homelessness on a devastating and heartbreaking scale when he moved to Manhattan for college in 1986--at the age of 17--and he has been doing his part to try to help in some way ever since.   Among many other odd jobs, he worked as a carpenter to help pay for college, and before returning to Seattle to start law school, he worked with the Clinton administration in Washington D.C. to help found AmeriCorps, which—like HomeAid—works with local nonprofits to further their missions.  In his current practice as a lawyer, he represents people and companies who build and finance homes.

As his day-job, Chris is a senior attorney at the law firm HCMP in Seattle, where he has been since 1999.  With decades of experience working on all types of real estate matters, he strives to be a creative deal-maker. His work includes negotiation and structuring of complex joint venture agreements, property acquisitions and sales, leases, construction and development contracts, creating commercial and residential condominiums and homeowners’ associations, developing master planned communities, and debt, equity and bond financing. Chris also has a broad, general business practice, helping a diverse array of clients succeed in establishing, operating, and protecting their businesses, and advising them on matters such as choice of business entity for startups, employment issues, partnership and LLC agreements, asset purchases and sales, mergers and acquisitions, and negotiation of a wide range of other contracts. Chris began his career representing lenders, experience that has proven invaluable in representation of his current clients.

Chris earned a B.A. in Architecture and Philosophy from Columbia College, Columbia University, and a J.D. from University of Washington Law School with High Honors.  He also had the great privilege of clerking for the Honorable William L. Dwyer, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, who always led by example and treated all human beings with dignity and respect, regardless of background, and regardless of whether they were currently housed.