Our firm is home to a thriving real estate investment trust (REIT) transactional practice, according to Chambers USA, which has described the firm as “accomplished at handling complex... matters involving REITs.” We accomplish successful transactions of all types for both public and private REITs, including a number of the largest publicly traded REITs.
Our REIT clients hail from multiple industries, including retail, office, residential, hotel, and industrial. The practice combines resources from all of the firm’s practice groups, including Corporate & Securities, Real Estate, Tax, Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation, Labor & Employment, Environmental and Intellectual Property. Services we offer our REIT clients include the following:
REIT Formation
We help form public and private REITs, including crafting operating partnerships to facilitate the tax-efficient acquisition of properties, both at a REIT’s formation and as it acquires properties.
Mergers, Acquisitions & Dispositions
The firm represents REITs in merger, acquisition and disposition transactions, including portfolio acquisitions, as well as the acquisition and disposition of individual properties.
Securities
We assist REIT clients in public and private securities offerings, including initial public offerings, secondary offerings, offerings of preferred and common units of limited partnership, debt offerings, securitizations and securities registrations in connection with merger and acquisition transactions.
Joint Ventures
The firm represents its REIT clients in the formation of joint ventures and strategic alliances with institutional investors, developers and others and assists with tax planning and implementing appropriate governance provisions and exit strategies.
Tax
Our lawyers help REIT clients in all aspects of federal, state and local tax planning, including representation in connection with REIT formation, mergers, acquisition and disposition transactions, like-kind exchanges and joint venture transactions, as well as managing REIT qualification tests and implementing REIT-specific tax strategies.
Financing
We represent REIT clients in many types of financing transactions including pooled and stand-alone securitized financings, traditional mortgage financings, construction financings, mezzanine financings and unsecured term and revolving loan financings.