Michael J. Choate

Michael focuses on securities and corporate finance matters including public and private offerings of both equity and debt securities with an emphasis on REITs and real estate funds including mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance issues and federal securities compliance matters impacting these entities. Michael’s representative experience includes advising publicly-traded and non-listed REITs and private real estate funds and investors in equity and debt offerings of more than $30 billion, structuring public and private equity and debt offerings, and representing publicly and privately held entities in merger and acquisition transactions including various REIT internalization transactions and counseling boards and managers on fiduciary duties and governance matters.