Shiukay Hung

Career

Shiukay Hung is a Partner and the Co-Chair of DLA Piper’s National REIT Tax Practice.

Shiukay’s tax practice primarily focuses on REITs and real estate private equity, including real assets credit and mortgage REITs. His clients include Canadian pension funds, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs), non-US family offices, US-listed REITs, Singapore-listed REITs, and non-traded REITs, including NAV REITs. He represents clients on a variety of transactions, ranging from joint ventures and fund formation to REIT formation and operation, as well as M&A transactions, debt workouts, and restructurings under Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code.

Shiukay leverages his prior experience as an in-house tax counsel at a prominent real estate private equity sponsor to provide his clients with practical advice that is guided by industry best practices. He actively participates in bar associations and industry groups including the Real Estate Roundtable, the Institute for Portfolio Alternatives (IPA), the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (Nareit), the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE), the New York State Bar Association, and the American Bar Association (ABA).

As a sought-after speaker, Shiukay frequently speaks at conferences hosted by leading organizations such as Nareit, IPA, the ABA, the American Institute of CPAs, the Harvard Law School Association of New York City, Strafford, and the Tax Executives Institute.