Mayer Brown’s Real Estate Capital Markets practice provides advisory services to a wide range of companies engaged in the real estate industry, including public and private equity REITs, mortgage REITs, public and private partnerships, financial advisers and intermediaries, pension funds and other institutional investors. The diversity of our experience spans the globe and has included work on nearly every asset class, including major shopping malls, multifamily residential properties, hotels and motels, health care facilities, as well as office and industrial properties.

As one of the largest law firms in the world, we provide general corporate and securities advice to companies around the world, including many Fortune 500 and FTSE 250 issuers. We also bring the same resources to bear for our real estate clients in connection with:

• The formation and organization of REITs and UPREITs, including roll-up transactions, spin-offs and formation of “downREIT partnerships”
• The formation of institutional and other real estate private equity and debt funds and joint ventures
• Public and private M&A transactions, including tender and exchange offers
• Innovative acquisition strategies through joint venture and other arrangements
• Initial Public Offerings, both underwritten and on a best-efforts basis
• Private and public debt offerings, common and preferred equity and convertible securities, including continuous offerings and rights offerings
• Conversions of existing corporations and partnerships into REITs
• Mortgage-backed securitizations
• Stock repurchase programs, including open market and negotiated repurchases
• Redemptions and forced conversions
• Capital and liability management of existing capital structures, including tender offers, exchange offers, buy-back programs, consent solicitations and negotiated redemptions and conversions

With more than 40 years experience structuring, organizing and capitalizing all types of domestic and international publicly and privately owned real estate companies and investment funds, Mayer Brown has earned the praise of its clients, who recently said: “Mayer Brown delivers a “fantastic” service to REITs. The consistency of staffing makes it very efficient, and the team understands the economics of real estate, which is beneficial when it comes to structuring deals.” – Chambers USA 2008