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
/ Capital Raising ,
Commercial Property Owners ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Financial Distress ,
Initial Public Offering (IPO) ,
Investors ,
Offerings ,
Past Performance ,
Real Estate Investments ,
Regulation A ,
Regulation CF ,
REIT ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Sponsors
In recent periods, a number of prominent non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs) disclosed that repurchase requests from stockholders under their share repurchase plans exceeded monthly or quarterly repurchase limits...more
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
/ Acquisitions ,
Commercial Leases ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Financial Statements ,
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
On February 10, 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) proposed amendments designed to modernize the rules governing beneficial ownership reporting. Section 13 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as...more
5/10/2022
/ Beneficial Owner ,
Comment Period ,
Institutional Investors ,
Proposed Amendments ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Schedule 13D ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Securities Exchange Act ,
Securities Regulation
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
The implementation of the “packaged retail insurance-based investment products,” or PRIIPs, regulation throughout the European Union may have implications for REITs in the United States if their shares are determined to be...more
I. Why Do REITs Have Ownership Limits in the First Place? -
Ownership limitation provisions are designed primarily to protect one of a REIT’s most valuable assets – its status as a REIT under the federal income tax...more
6/9/2016
/ Beneficial Owner ,
Board of Directors ,
Business Ownership ,
Controlling Stockholders ,
Corporate Charters ,
Income Taxes ,
Investment Management ,
Ownership Rules ,
Publicly-Traded Companies ,
REIT ,
Securities ,
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
Tenants ,
Waivers
On March 14, 2016, the SEC issued a no-action letter permitting holders of shares of common stock of a publicly traded REIT, or REIT shares, received in exchange for privately placed units of the REIT’s operating partnership,...more
The real estate world unofficially convened at the 9th Annual Real Estate Capital Markets Conference hosted by Goodwin Procter and Columbia Business School.
The speakers and guests, which included real estate fund...more
In our December 3, 2015 REIT Alert we suggested that the Prop Co/Op Co structure implemented by a tax-free REIT spin-off may not be dead. On December 7, 2015 House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Kevin Brady (R-TX)...more
In recent years, a number of public companies have sought to unlock the value embedded in their corporate real estate assets by separating the real estate and other assets into two separate entities – a so-called PropCo/OpCo...more
In our February 4, 2015 REIT Alert, “Barbarians at the (REIT) Gates: REITs Should Be Prepared for a New World Order of Shareholder Activists, Hostile Overtures and Proxy Fights,” we addressed the increased risk faced by...more
Publicly traded REITs today face an increased risk of potential shareholder activism, proxy fights and otherwise hostile overtures. In response to this growing trend, public REITs should examine their corporate governance...more
The implementation of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive throughout the European Union may have implications for REITs in the United States if they are determined to be alternative investment funds or “AIFs”....more