Amy Wells

Practice Areas

Amy is the lead partner of Cox, Castle & Nicholson's Institutional Investor Team, and has more than thirty years of experience representing institutional investors in all aspects of complex real estate, infrastructure and private equity investments. She is well versed in the issues that are of particular concern to institutional investors. Her knowledge of current market terms makes her highly effective in accomplishing her client's investment goals.

Structuring Complex Transactions

Amy has extensive experience in all types of real estate, infrastructure and private equity transactions, and understands current market terms and opportunities. She is particularly adept at structuring, documenting, and negotiating strategic relationships such as joint ventures and commingled funds, as well as fiduciary relationships between institutional investors and their consultants and advisors. She is highly sophisticated in multi-state and multi-property transactions, property related transactions such as leasing, financing, construction, and management agreements on all property types and international investments by United States public pension funds.

Advisor To Public Pension Funds

Amy works extensively with State, City and County public pension funds across the United States on their investment activities, and is experienced in working with in-house counsel, investment committees and boards, as well as the outside consultants and advisors frequently used by public pension funds in their investment activities. She understands the relationship between the investor, in-house counsel, its advisors, consultants, and outside counsel, and works efficiently and effectively with the investor and all the various service providers. Known for her business acumen and effective legal advice, Amy has structured, documented, and negotiated hundreds of real estate and private equity transactions for public pension funds, including joint ventures, commingled funds, private equity arrangements, infrastructure investments, advisory relationships, acquisitions, dispositions, lending, leasing, and other investment activities. Her experience extends to international investments, and she has worked with international counsel to document international transactions in the most efficient manner for United States investors.

Professional Memberships

Pension Real Estate Association; National Association of Public Pension Attorneys; National Multifamily Housing Council; USC Lusk Center for Real Estate, Board Member