Gilbert G. Menna

Mr. Menna has assisted clients in structuring and executing some of the highest profile and largest public real estate transactions in recent years, including M&A transactions and equity and debt offerings.

Most recently, he has represented:

• Brookfield Property Partners in connection with its $15.3 billion restructuring of General Growth Properties
• Cottonwood Residential in its $1.7 billion restructuring, including its $440 million asset portfolio sale to Ares Capital Management
• LaSalle Hotel Properties in its $5.2 billion acquisition by Pebblebrook Hotel Trust
• Monogram Residential Trust in connection with its structured $3 billion privatization transaction with Greystar and a consortium of foreign investors
• Underwriting syndicate in Invitation Homes’ $1.8 billion IPO, the largest U.S. IPO since October 2015 and the second largest REIT IPO ever
• MAA (Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.) in its $3.9 billion acquisition with Post Properties Inc.
• The Scion Group LLC in its $1.4 billion acquisition (in joint venture with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation) of University House Communities Group, Inc.
• Paramount Group Inc. in connection with its $2.6 billion IPO, the largest IPO in the REIT industry ever
• Essex Property Trust in its $15.4 billion merger with BRE Properties, creating the third-largest multifamily REIT in the country
• MAA (Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.) in its $8.6 billion acquisition of Colonial Properties Trust, Inc.
• CreXus Investment Corp in its $1 billion acquisition by Annaly Capital Management, Inc.
• Cole Credit Property Trust II in its $7.1 billion acquisition by Spirit Realty Capital, Inc.
• AvalonBay Communities, Inc. in its $16 billion acquisition (in joint venture with Equity Residential) of Archstone Enterprise LP