The Real Estate Capital Markets Practice at Morris, Manning & Martin serves clients in accessing the capital markets.  Our lawyers have assisted clients in raising billions of dollars for deployment in real estate ventures. We represent real estate developers and operating companies, financial institutions, pension funds, institutional investors, investment advisors and asset managers with respect to their real estate investments, both in the U.S. and abroad. Our investment and development work touches every real estate asset class, including affordable housing, brownfield, condominium, hotel, industrial/distribution, mixed-use, multi-family, office, resort, retail, student housing, and timber. 

Key Services

• Blind pools
• Bond financing
• Credit enhanced financing
• Debt funds
• Direct participation programs
• DownREITs
• Follow-on offerings
• Industrial development
• Initial public offerings
• Listed REITs
• Non-listed REITs
• Partnerships & joint ventures
• Private REITs
• Private placements
• Real estate funds
• Syndicated loans
• Tax allocation bonds
• Tax credit funds
• Tax exempt development
• Timber REITs
• UPREITs

Market Innovators

As deal-makers and innovators, our 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. We add a comprehensive knowledge of the real estate industry, key industry contacts and a multi-disciplinary approach to the sophisticated legal and financial issues that drive complex real estate transactions. Because of the depth of our practice, we bring our clients practical knowledge of the current thinking on complex securities, tax, environmental, bankruptcy, ERISA and technology concerns that drive deals.

Collaborative Synergy

Our lawyers look beyond just the legal issues facing our clients in order to understand and counsel our clients on the critical business issues confronting them. By doing so, we become valued business partners. In our Real Estate Capital Markets Practice, we live by the credo that our clients’ success is the only true measure of our success. We are with our clients for the long-term as they grow and diversify in order to meet the challenges of an ever changing and increasingly competitive market environment. We are leaders in the field, crafting unique legal solutions to complex issues. We add value to our clients’ business with our focus on strategic relationships and our ability to use our goodwill with regulators and other business leaders to our clients’ advantage. We facilitate critical introductions and ongoing communication between sources of capital and key development partners.

Transaction Guidance

Drawing on our broad and diverse experience, we are able to design and implement cutting-edge deal structures. Because we represent some of the nation’s largest financial institutions, pension funds, timber funds, institutional investors, investment advisors and asset managers, we know what the markets will accept and can advise our clients accordingly. Whether conducting a $3.3 billion REIT public offering, buying, capitalizing and financing a $300 million destination golf resort development community, handling all aspects of a $250 million in-town brownfield mixed-use multiphase development, handling installment sales of large-scale timberland dispositions, or representing a multi-billion dollar institutional investment fund in its investments and tax planning in offshore hotel and condominium resorts, our lawyers bring an unparalleled level of experience to the full spectrum of real estate transactions.