Christopher Mangin Jr

Practice Areas

Chris Mangin is a nationally-recognized authority on real estate investment trust (REIT) taxation, real estate funds, and real estate partnerships.

Chris Mangin is a nationally-recognized authority on real estate investment trust (REIT) taxation, real estate funds, and real estate partnerships.

Chris works with REITs, real estate companies, and private equity sponsors on IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, real estate fund formation, qualified opportunity zone funds, joint ventures, take-private transactions, spin-offs, financings, dispositions, recapitalizations, and issues relating to foreign investment in U.S. real estate under FIRPTA.

Chris partners with his clients to provide practical and commercial solutions to tax issues oriented toward achieving their business goals. His work has earned him recognition as a Band 1 attorney in Chambers USA, where reviewers praise Chris as an “impressive and innovative tax lawyer” who is “able to explain things in a nontechnical way that allows non-tax professionals to understand things (2022).” He is also recognized by Legal 500 (US) in US Real Estate-REITs.

Career

Chris is a frequent speaker at conferences on the taxation of REITs.

Prior to attending law school, Chris spent three years working as a certified public accountant at Big Four accounting firms.

Professional Memberships

National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts; American Bar Association Tax Section

Personal

University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2006; Wake Forest University, M.S.A., B.S., 2000; Admitted to practice: District of Columbia; Virginia