Christopher Glenn Sawyer

Christopher Glenn Sawyer has been a partner in the law firm of Alston and Bird since 1985. He specializes in corporate governance and counseling, strategic planning, conservation, and real estate law. As a member of the Real Estate Practice Group, he has served as chair of its Finance and Investments Sections. Mr. Sawyer currently serves on the Board of Directors of IDI and IDI Services Group, both headquartered in Atlanta, and on the Board of Directors of EDAW, headquartered in San Francisco. During his career, he has represented these clients and others nationally in the assemblage of land and the development of large multi-use planned communities, the development and leasing of commercial, retail, multi-family and industrial facilities, the acquisition and disposition of investment grade real estate, and the structuring of various real estate investment vehicles. Mr. Sawyer also currently serves as national Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Trust for Public Land (TPL) in San Francisco, as Chairman of the Chattahoochee River Coordinating Committee (an effort to create a park and greenway along 180 miles of the river in Georgia), and President of the West Hill Foundation for Nature in Jackson, Wyoming. He was the founding chairman of TPL’s Georgia Advisory Board and The Nature Conservancy’s National Real Estate Advisory Board. He also currently serves on TPL’s National Real Estate Advisory Council, the Urban Land Institute’s Leadership Group, the Board of Directors of The Murie Center in Jackson, Wyoming, and the Yale University Divinity School’s Board of Advisors. He has been affiliated with numerous professional organizations, including Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation, Atlanta Legal Aid Society, Duke University Urban Property Development Council, and the Atlanta Bar Association, which he served as its president from 1989 – 1990.