INTRODUCTION Contributed by: John Sullivan and Matt Alshouse, DLA Piper LLP
DLA Piper LLP has more than 995 lawyers in the real estate sector operating in more than 40 countries, including strongly established teams in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific. The firm is widely recognised as a market leader in the commercial real es - tate sector. It represents many of the world’s leading investors, owners, developers, lend - ers, asset managers, fund sponsors and in -
vestment advisers, and offers the full range of real estate services, including single asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, single asset and multi-property/programmatic joint ventures, fund formation, operating company investments, cross-border investments, REITs, financing, construction and design, leasing, zoning/land use, public-private partnerships, environmental law, real estate litigation and tax. Matt Alshouse is a partner in DLA Piper’s real estate practice group in Chicago. His practice focuses on commercial real estate acquisitions, dispositions and financing, primarily on behalf of private equity and real estate asset management clients globally. He has counselled domestic and foreign private equity funds and hedge funds, investor consortiums, developers, asset-based and project lenders, and REITs on a broad range of property acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, and mortgage and mezzanine loans. Matt’s experience in recent years has included the representation of a variety of Korean asset management and other investor consortiums in their US real estate transactions.
Contributing Editors
John Sullivan is chair of DLA Piper’s US real estate practice and co-chair of the global real
estate practice. He has a broad-ranging practice that encompasses all aspects of commercial real estate, with a particular emphasis on representing public and private pension plans, opportunity funds, investment advisers and non-US investors in equity, debt, hybrid and joint venture transactions throughout North America. John has been lead counsel for many of the largest US real estate transactions. He is on the board of the Boston Chapter of the Urban Land Institute and is a member of the Pension Real Estate Association and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers. John is a guest lecturer at the MIT Real Estate Center and Columbia Business School, and is on the firm’s executive committee and policy committee.
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