REITs: Tax

Skadden’s real estate attorneys work with an interdisciplinary team of tax, M&A and capital markets attorneys throughout the firm that advises REIT clients and their sponsors, underwriters, managers, boards of directors and special committees in some of their most important and innovative transactions, including a number of “first-of-their-kind” matters.

Skadden has represented every type of REIT, including equity, hybrid, special-purpose, and public and private, as well as funds that invest in REITs, on a broad range of legal matters and transactions affecting REITs, including UPREITs, DownREITs, roll-ups and multiple REIT structures.

Skadden’s REIT clients span the entire industry, including apartments, office buildings, shopping centers, cell phone towers, health care facilities, medical office buildings, hotels, industrial properties, data centers, manufactured home communities, prisons, storage, timber and warehouses, as well as REITs that specialize in mortgages, mortgage-backed securities, mezzanine loans and financing structures.

Our attorneys have led numerous international REIT transactions, including complex joint ventures between U.S. REITs and non-U.S.-based real estate investors, major investments by U.S. REITs abroad, complicated formations of private U.S. REITs to facilitate real estate investments by institutions based outside the United States, and the structuring and establishment of European REITs.