Dentons understands the challenges facing Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). We have a world-class reputation in the real estate industry and an acute ability to leverage market turmoil, mining new portfolio opportunities around the world and taking full advantage of the latest REIT markets as they arise. We have advised a diverse profile of REIT clients—including publicly-traded, private, domestic and cross-border REITs—on complex REIT structures and transactions. Ours is a multidisciplinary approach, leveraging the expertise of our Real Estate, Corporate, Capital Markets and Tax practice groups to provide you with solutions that address your regulatory and compliance needs while also meeting your business objectives.

Our REIT team provides you with comprehensive legal representation, including:

• Entity formation
• REIT tax qualification and compliance
• Annual REIT qualification opinions
• Securities and exchange registrations and filings
• Capital raising
• Ongoing operational issues
• Corporate governance
• Complex real estate transactions.

The experience of our REIT team, combined with the breadth and depth of our capabilities in the mortgage industry, makes Dentons a one-stop shop for mortgage REITs.

Insights

Real estate private equity in the Canadian market

April 4, 2024

Real estate private equity (REPE) generally refers to the creation of an investment vehicle where funds are raised to acquire real estate assets and generate returns through their management, improvement, development and/or eventual sale.

Beneficial Ownership Reporting and the Corporate Transparency Act

November 16, 2023

Beginning on January 1, 2024 the US Corporate Transparency Act (CTA), part of the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020, requires “reporting companies” to file with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network of the US Department of the Treasury (FinCEN) reports containing personal information about the company’s beneficial owners.

SEC goes green, proposes long-awaited climate-related disclosure rules

March 30, 2022

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed long awaited rules which, if adopted, would require domestic and foreign public companies to disclose material climate-related information in their registration statements and periodic reports.