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Yoel Kranz
Position
Partner / Co-Chair REITs and Real Estate M&A
Career
Yoel Kranz is co-chair of the firm’s nationally recognized REITs and Real Estate M&A practice. He has over 20 years of experience in advising public and private companies in corporate mergers and acquisitions, and serves as ongoing corporate and securities counsel for a diverse group of public companies, including numerous REITs. Yoel represents or has recently represented a variety of NYSE-listed and other public companies, such as Medical Properties Trust, Empire State Realty Trust, Gaming & Leisure Properties, AvalonBay Communities, Mid-America Apartment Communities, and Phillips Edison & Company.
Yoel is listed in the national REIT category in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and is recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. for his work in the REIT industry.
Education
JD, 1998, University of Virginia School of Law (member, editorial board of the Virginia Law Review / MA, 1995, Emerson College / RO, 1992, Rabbinical College of America
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
(Leading lawyers)Goodwin remains a market leader for real estate investment trusts, handling a full suite of matters that spans both public and private REITs and includes large scale IPOs, equity and debt offerings, M&A and complex joint-venture investments, on behalf of a broad client list that includes major global financial institutions. Ettore Santucci is well known in the space for his representation of publicly traded REITs and real estate operating companies in corporate finance, M&A and corporate governance matters. He co-chairs the practice group alongside New York’s Yoel Kranz, who assumed the role after esteemed REITs practitioner Gil Menna stepped back to an of counsel role. Other key contacts within the group include Scott Chase , who is frequently engaged on the full-range of corporate and securities matters, whilst Mark Opper ‘s practice emphasizes REITs and real estate operating companies, advising on IPOs, follow on and 144A offerings. Counsel Christopher Versfelt is another stand-out for his M&A focus, alongside offerings of equity and debt securities, and complex financing transactions. All attorneys are based in Boston unless otherwise stated.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading lawyers United States > Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Real estate investment trusts (REITs) United States > Real estate
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Industry focus > Cannabis
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Venture capital and emerging companies
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Industry focus > Education
- Labor and employment > ERISA litigation
- Finance > Fintech
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: middle-market ($500m-999m)
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- International Trade > CFIUS
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Real estate > Real estate
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
- Labor and employment > Workplace and employment counseling
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: design
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Healthcare > Service providers
- International Trade > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Intellectual property > Patents: prosecution (including re-examination and post-grant proceedings)