HOUSTON-Global law firm Sutherland Asbill & Brennan, LLP has relocated its global headquarters to First City Tower. The firm signed a long-term lease for 41,410 square feet at the 49-story skyscraper at 1001 Fannin St. in downtown.

Sutherland Asbill is expanding from the 35,000 square feet it occupied in 909 Fannin St. just a block away, according to Chip Colvill of Colvill Office Properties. He and Michael Anderson represented the landlord, FC Tower Property Partners, LP, an affiliate of JMB Realty of Chicago, in lease negotiations. Kevin Snodgrass of Cushman & Wakefield, Houston represented Sutherland.

Colvill tells GlobeSt.com the deal took six months to negotiate. As part of the lease, the law firm took space on the 37th and 38th floors of the 1.3-million-square-foot tower.

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