Joint venture structures continue to be an important tool for public real estate investment trusts (REITs), particularly in market environments where traditional capital-raising strategies may be challenging from a funds from...more
7/25/2025
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Capital Markets ,
Capital Raising ,
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Shareholder activism in the public REIT sector has evolved from a marginal tactic employed by a small number of high-profile hedge funds into a persistent, structural feature of corporate life. The public REIT model, long...more
6/27/2025
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Corporate Governance ,
Executive Compensation ,
Hedge Funds ,
Investment ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Real Estate Investments ,
REIT ,
Risk Management ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Shareholder Activism ,
Shareholders
In our 2022 alert “REIT M&A Trends Through the Pandemic,” we cataloged a total of 42 new REIT transactions announced between August 2020 and May 2022, a pace that rivaled or exceeded pre-pandemic levels. From May 2022 through...more
Coming out of the Great Recession, there was a rush by real estate sponsors to raise “blind pool” capital to take advantage of displacement and distress in the real estate market. From 2009 through 2010, 30 new public real...more
9/20/2023
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Commercial Property Owners ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Financial Distress ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
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Real Estate Investments ,
Regulation A ,
Regulation CF ,
REIT ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Sponsors
When a public REIT acquires or disposes of real estate, the transaction may trigger financial disclosure requirements under SEC rules and guidance. Specifically, Rule 3-14 of Regulation S-X (“Rule 3-14”) sets forth the...more
11/16/2022
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Commercial Leases ,
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Form 10-K ,
Real Estate Investments ,
Real Estate Transactions ,
Real Estate Transfers ,
Regulation S-X ,
REIT ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
As in most other market sectors, REIT M&A activity came to a screeching halt in March 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the United States and globally. In the face of significant uncertainty surrounding the ability...more
In 2018, we released our advisory alert “Trends in Public REIT M&A: 2012–2017” chronicling select metrics across the 50+ REIT M&A transactions announced during the 2012–2017 period. We updated the sample set and findings in...more