About

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REITs and related entities throughout the U.S. and abroad, including many of the largest and most acquisitive, seek Sullivan's highly regarded services.


Clients value our REIT practice group's responsive, practical, efficient handling of REIT matters, partner-level involvement in deals, and 360-degree perspective of our clients' needs.


Our REIT clients require some of the most sophisticated tax and investment structures in the world. Clients include existing public and private REITs, as well as real estate owners, operators and developers, pension fund advisors, pension funds, and foreign investors, looking to unlock the value of the REIT structure.


Sullivan's clients include many of the most prominent public REITs located throughout the U.S. and beyond. By equity market capitalization, we represent approximately 15 percent of the U.S. public equity REIT market.


Our REIT practice group has extensive experience in virtually every aspect of the industry. Clients rely on us for formation, capital raising, mergers and acquisitions, conversion of C corporations to REITs, tax matters, securities law compliance, governance issues, property management and leasing, environmental and land use matters and workouts for troubled properties. We are regularly called on by other firms to serve as special REIT counsel for many larger, more sophisticated transactions, especially those needing help with high-exposure, tax-related structuring issues.

Chambers Review

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REITs - USA - Nationwide
5
Band 5
What the team is known for

Sullivan & Worcester is a Boston-centric team handling a wide spectrum of REIT transactions, including formations, equity and debt offerings and joint ventures. Combines tax structuring expertise with significant experience of advising on complex M&A, often with cross-border elements.

Work Highlights

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  • Sullivan & Worcester assisted American Tower Corporation in its sale of an approximately 36% ownership interest in its US data center business to certain affiliated investment vehicles of Stonepeak as part of a new long-term strategic partnership.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Ameek Ashok Ponda
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Ameek Ashok Ponda
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Band 1

Ameek Ashok Ponda's global transactional REIT practice regularly sees him handling REIT conversions as well as M&A.

"Ameek is very knowledgeable of subject matters and he articulates advice well."

"He is wonderful, he is smart, detail-oriented and extremely knowledgeable."

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REITs: Tax

Ameek Ashok Ponda
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Ameek Ashok Ponda
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Members

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Angela Gomes

Head of Department

Avi Rao

Benjamin Armour

Brandon Schneider

Brian Hammell

Head of Department

Charles Chambers

Emily Brewer

Eric Rietveld

Howard Berkenblit

Jeffrey Morlend

John Steiner

Lindsey Getz

Louis Monti

Matthew Bailey

Nicole Rives

Paul Decker

Sarah Wellings

Sharon Leifer

Shu Wei

Susan Barnard

Victor Baltera

Warren Heilbronner

William Curry

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