Mr. Versfelt’s recent experience includes representing:
- TIER REIT, Inc. in its definitive merger agreement to combine with Cousins Properties, valued at $7.8 billion
- Syndicates of multinational investment banks acting as underwriters in approximately $8 billion of various public debt and equity offerings by Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
- Brookfield Property Partners in its $15.3 billion acquisition of GGP, Inc. and its restructuring as Brookfield Property REIT, Inc.
- bluebird bio, inc., a clinical-stage biotechnology company, in follow-on equity offerings for $850 million
- Cornerstone OnDemand, a leader in cloud-based learning and human capital management software, in the $300 million strategic investment in the company by Silver Lake and LinkedIn
- Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc. in its $3.9 billion acquisition of Post Properties Inc.
- LBA Realty in connection with the formation of a joint venture to acquire and redevelop an industrial project in Queens, NY
- HarborOne Bancorp, Inc. in its reorganization into a mutual holding company and its related minority stock offering
- VEREIT in a $1.0 billion offering of two tranches senior notes
- Rockwood Capital in investing on behalf of its NorthRock IV Fund in the $190 million closing of two joint ventures structured as REITs, with affiliates of a Singapore private limited company
- A joint venture of The Scion Group LLC, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation in connection with the execution of a Stock Purchase Agreement to acquire a leading student housing portfolio in the United States for approximately $1.4 billion
- Amarin Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company, in its $30 million private placement of exchangeable senior notes
- Multinational underwriters in various shelf offerings of cumulative redeemable preferred stock by technology and clinical-stage biopharmaceutical companies
- Numerous REITs and technology companies in connection with the filing of shelf registration statements and the establishment of continuous at-the-market equity offering programs
