Atlanta (January 20, 2015) – Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP leads the nation in the value of merger & acquisition work for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) for 2014, according to new information attributed to SNL Financial.
MMM represented clients in a total assigned deal value of $5.5 billion in REIT M&A last year. Those deals, spearheaded by the leaders of the Real Estate Capital Markets group, involved dozens of attorneys from a variety of practice areas including corporate, tax, real estate and lending. The firm, which has represented some of its REIT clients for more than a dozen years, specializes in acting as a trusted business advisor providing strategic counsel on critical business issues.
The Real Estate Capital Markets Practice routinely structures, negotiates, documents and closes private and public equity offerings for REITs, real estate limited partnerships, timber funds, strategic joint ventures, debt funds, tax credit funds, bond financings and UPREITs. MMM’s lawyers have helped clients raise billions of dollars for deployment in complex real estate ventures.
Earlier this year, legal publication Law360 profiled one of the firm’s leading capital markets attorneys, Lauren Prevost, as a Real Estate MVP. It honored only seven attorneys in that category nationwide.
SNL Financial describes itself as a leading provider of financial information on more than 6,500 public companies and 50,000 private companies in business sectors critical to the global economy. Real estate news service GlobeSt.com first reported the figures about MMM’s ranking by SNL, which noted that law firm Venable LLP and Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz came in second and third, respectively, in the value of the deals they handled.
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Morris, Manning & Martin (www.mmmlaw.com) is an AmLaw 200 law firm with national and international reach. We dedicate ourselves to the constant pursuit of our clients’ success. To provide our clients with optimal value, we combine a total understanding of their needs to with market-leading legal services maximize effectiveness, efficiency and opportunity. MMM enjoys national prominence for its real estate, corporate, litigation, technology, healthcare, intellectual property, energy & infrastructure, capital markets, environmental, international trade, insurance, and timberland & forest products practices. MMM has offices in Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, Savannah, Taipei, Beijing and Washington, D.C. and an alliance with GCN in São Paulo, Brazil.
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