The firm fields a dedicated team of REITs specialists from across its pre-eminent real estate, banking & finance, tax, corporate/M&A and investment management practices to advise clients on opportunities for conversion and the creation of new vehicles.

Recent REITs transactions include advising:

• J.P. Morgan, UBS on the offering and secondary sale of shares of alstria Office REIT-AG
• Dream Global REIT on German law aspects of its C$100 million equity offering in Canada
• Petercam SA; Belfius Bank; KBC Securities, Brussels; ING BANK NV on the Accreditation followed by an Initial Public Offering of the first Belgian REIC under the new legislation
• Intu on the IPO of Zaragoza Properties SOCIMI, S.A.
• the Joint Bookrunner on the rights issue by Merlín Properties SOCIMI, S.A., the biggest Spanish REIT by market capitalisation