Mayer Brown brings longstanding experience advising public and private equity and mortgage REITs on a wide range of capital markets, structured finance, and corporate transactions, including IPOs, follow-on offerings, securitizations, and M&A. The team regularly represents REITs, underwriters, and investors in formations, UPREIT and DownREIT structures, roll-ups, and complex financings, and is also active in advising mortgage and data center REITs. New York-based Anna Pinedo leads the practice and advises REITs on financings, strategic transactions, and corporate governance matters. Chicago-based Haukur Gudmundsson represents mortgage REITs, issuers, and investors in structured finance and capital markets transactions. Also in New York, Brian Hirshberg advises REITs on capital markets transactions. Liz Walsh has joined the firm, further expanding the REIT practice.
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Key clients
- Adamas Trust, Inc. (f/k/a New York Mortgage Trust, Inc.)
- ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.
- CBRM Realty Inc.
- Centerspace LP (designated underwriter/agent counsel)
- Cherry Hill Mortgage Corporation
- Chimera Investment Corporation
- Churchill Finance LLC
- Dwight Mortgage Trust LLC
- Dynex Capital, Inc.
- Gaea Real Estate Corp.
- Global Net Lease, Inc. (designated underwriter/agent counsel)
- Lument Finance Trust
- MFA Financial Inc.
- Post Brothers Holdings LLC
- Prologis, Inc.
- Ready Capital
- RealSource Properties, Inc
- Redwood Trust Inc.
- Seer Capital Management LP
- Waypoint Residential LLC
Work highlights
Advised Prologis, Inc., a leading multinational logistics REIT and its affiliates on its SEC reporting and disclosure matters, as well as on its financings, which during the period, as noted, include a series of debt offerings totalling more than $4.5 billion.
Advised Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corporation, a publicly-traded residential mortgage REIT, in connection with its SEC reporting and disclosure, as well as its corporate governance matters.
Advised UBS Securities LLC, as sole dealer manager, in connection with Seven Hills Realty Trust’s (Nasdaq: SEVN) fully backstopped, transferable rights offering to raise up to approximately $65 million. The transaction was distinguished by its use of a transferable rights offering, a structure significantly less common among mortgage REITs.
Practice head
Anna Pinedo
Other key lawyers
Haukur Gudmundsson; Brian Hirshberg; Liz Walsh