Venable LLP remains a reference in the middle-market for both public and privately traded domestic and international companies, where the firm fosters effective collaboration with the wider regulatory, tax, employment, and government relations teams to provide clients with full-service assistance in transactional matters. The firm boasts a particularly active REITs practice, in which the firm advises on deals upwards of $1bn. The practice is led from the Washington DC office by co-heads Frank Ciatto, who offers experience advising emerging companies, and Robert Bolger, whose strengths lie within the hospitality industry, in which he frequently advises hotel brands, management companies, and investors.
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Key clients
- Hyatt Hotels Corporation
- CHG Group, Inc.
- S. Freedman & Sons, Inc.
- TBC Corporation Cresset Capital Management, LLC
- SITE Centers Corp
- Equity Commonwealth
- Great Ajax
- Windstream Holdings
- Lineage
- Paramount Group, Inc.
- Millrose Properties, Inc.
- United Development Funding IV
Work highlights
Served as lead outside counsel to Hyatt Hotels Corporation in its acquisition of Standard International and its hotel brands, including The Standard and Bunkhouse Hotels.
Represented CHG Group, Inc., and its subsidiary Chemring Sensors and Electronic Systems, Inc. in its divestiture of its Explosive Hazard Detection line of business operated in support of the Husky Mounted Detection System (HMDS) program and related programs, specifically, the manufacture of the 3d-Radar Ground Penetrating Radar vehicle mounted systems and handheld counter-IED and mine detection product lines, to Elta North America.
Represented S. Freedman & Sons in its sale to Imperial Dade in a strategic acquisition related to the distribution of foodservice packaging supplies, industrial products, and janitorial supplies.
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Practice head
Frank Ciatto; Bob Bolger