Greenberg Traurig LLP

Tax

Shareholder

Jennifer H. Weiss focuses her practice on structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex tax oriented commercial transactions, primarily involving real estate, real estate securities, and capital market transactions. She represents traded REITs, public non-traded REITs and private REITs, and real estate operating companies, and is involved in most aspects of their portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, fund formations, joint ventures and strategic alliances, as well as the formation, qualification, and operation of REITs for federal income tax purposes. Jennifer also represents public, private, and institutional taxable and tax-exempt clients structuring collective investment and reinvestment vehicles, real estate securitization, equity and debt investment structuring and restructuring, work outs, and venture capital transactions on a tax-deferred basis, including all aspects of investments in pass-thru entities.

ConcentrationsFederal taxationSecuritized investments in real estate and asset acquisitions and dispositionsREIT taxationPublic and private capital market transactionsFund formationsComplex strategic alliances including joint venture, partnership, LLC and other pass-thru entity transactionsVenture capital transactionsPension investments in real estate involving issues of unrelated business taxable incomeForeign investments in real estatePartnership structuring and restructuringWork-out and debt restructuringOrganization, qualification and operation of real estate of investment trusts

CapabilitiesTax Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) Real Estate Tax Opportunity Zone Funds

Admission to PracticeMassachusetts

English

LL.M., New York University School of Law, 1986 J.D., Boston University School of Law, 1984 A.B., Brown University, 1981