Bruce Gilchrist

Practice Areas

Bruce Gilchrist has been involved in some of the largest and most complex mergers, acquisitions, and IPOs involving REITs and other real estate companies, including the first UPREIT IPO and the creation of the first hospitality UPREIT.

Clients rely on Bruce to develop transaction structures that address complicated or novel situations in M&A and corporate finance work, as well as to help negotiate large, multifaceted transactions.

Bruce represents entities and individuals engaged in the real estate industry, including owners and operators of hotels, office buildings and multifamily properties, homebuilders, and management companies. He also advises clients on energy-and- infrastructure-related capital markets, financing, and restructuring transactions.

Bruce's experience includes counseling clients on acquisitions and business combinations involving mergers, stock purchases, asset transactions, partnership rollups and operating partnership unit transactions (both public and private), leveraged buyouts, and tender offers. He has structured joint venture arrangements for the ownership or acquisition of individual properties, portfolios, and entire real estate companies; and represented issuers and underwriters in IPOs and other public offerings, private placements, reorganizations, and recapitalizations.

Bruce helps clients regarding compliance with federal securities laws and regulations, including those relating to corporate governance and disclosure obligations.