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Gregory Cope

202.639.6526 gcope@velaw.com

Work Department

Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions

Position

Partner

Career

Greg’s principal areas of practice are capital markets, securities law, and mergers and acquisitions. He has a particular focus on representing real estate investment trusts (REITs). He advises REITs in all stages of their life cycles: initial capitalization and formation, debt and equity offerings, corporate governance, securities law issues and reporting obligations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and activist investor defense. He also represents underwriters in public and private offerings.

In addition to REITs, he has advised clients in a number of different industries, including specialty finance, financial services companies industrial and healthcare companies.

Top Tier Firm Rankings

• Government > Government relations
• Energy > Energy regulation: oil and gas
• Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
• Energy > Renewable/alternative power

Firm Rankings

• Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
• Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
• Finance > Project finance
• Transport > Aviation and air travel: finance
• Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
• Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
• Antitrust > Cartel
• Real estate > Construction (including construction litigation)
• Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
• Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
• Environment > Environment: litigation
• Environment > Environment: regulatory
• Environment > Environment: transactional
• Government > Government contracts
• Tax > International tax
• Antitrust > Merger control
• Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
• Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
• Tax > US taxes: contentious
• Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
• Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
• Dispute resolution > International arbitration
• Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
• M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
• Real estate > Real estate
• Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
• Industry focus > Sport
• Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
• M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
• Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
• Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
• Finance > Commercial lending
• Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
• Real estate > Land use/zoning
• M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism