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LAW 2025: LAVOIE, JOHN ‘JACK’
REST ON OFFICE PARTNER IN CHARGE, COOLEY, RESTON
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
LAW 2025: LAVOIE, JOHN ‘JACK’
REST ON OFFICE PARTNER IN CHARGE, COOLEY, RESTON
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Having joined Cooley in 2008, Lavoie leads the global firm’s real estate practice group and manages its Reston office.
His practice centers on commercial real estate transactions, including buying, selling, developing and leasing office, industrial and retail properties. Lavoie represents landlords, tenants, lenders and borrowers in the Washington, D.C., area and the mid-Atlantic region. He’s been involved in data center leasing and development, as well as corporate headquarters projects.
Cooley has nearly 1,400 lawyers across 19 offices in the United States, Asia and Europe, and a total workforce of more than 3,000, including 58 attorneys in Virginia.
For more than a decade, Lavoie worked at Watt, Tieder, Hoffar & Fitzgerald, a McLean-based firm serving construction, surety and bankruptcy clients. He also worked as a senior associate handling site identification and lease negotiation for global real estate advisory firm Staubach, now part of Jones Lang LaSalle.
A graduate of the Catholic University of America and Georgetown University Law Center, Lavoie served on the transition team for former Gov. Terry McAuliffe.
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