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Mayer Brown‘s REIT practice is led by Anna Pinedo from New York, she is a capital markets specialist and has a wealth of experience in financings for REITs, as well as acting as underwriters counsel for a number of public REITs. Securitizations are a key part of the practice as well as public offerings and M&A. David Freed is an integral part of the practice, focusing on equity and mortgage REITs on private placements, IPOs, and follow-on offerings. Representing REIT issuers, sponsors and investment banks, Brian Hirshberg is particularly noted for his expertise in public equity and debt offerings. Both aforementioned lawyers are based in New York. Over in the Chicago practice, Haukur Gudmundsson assists with securitizations and structured finance transactions and Susannah Schmid handles mortgage loan transactions.

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Key clients

  • Great Ajax Corp.
  • Prologis Inc.
  • Redwood Trust, Inc.
  • New York Mortgage Trust, Inc.
  • Dynex Capital Inc.
  • Global Net Lease, Inc.
  • ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.
  • Waypoint Residential, LLC
  • Cherry Hill Mortgage Investment Corporation
  • NorthStar Healthcare Income, Inc.
  • Lument Finance Trust Inc.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Anna Pinedo

Other key lawyers

David Freed, Brian Hirshberg, Haukur Gudmundsson, Susannah Schmid