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Our latest On point. focuses on real estate investment trusts (“REITs”).  Established in 1960, REITs were designed to democratize real estate investing by providing retail investors with the opportunity to obtain passive gains from large-scale, income-producing real estate and mortgage portfolios.  REITs typically receive preferential tax treatment in the form of no entity-level tax and…

February 26, 2020
1:00 – 2:00 PM ET
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This one hour online presentation will provide attendees with a broad yet focused educational program that presents a clear picture of legal, regulatory and tax considerations for real estate investment trusts (REITs). Mayer Brown partner Thomas Humphreys and counsel Brian Hirshberg will cover…

Nonbank financial companies, including residential mortgage real estate investment trusts (“mortgage REITs”), have expressed concern that nonbank residential mortgage lenders, servicers and purchasers might be subject to enhanced regulatory scrutiny and prudential standards by the Financial Stability Oversight Council (the “Council”) or increased state and federal regulation to head off action by the Council. Indeed,…

In recent years, the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) has been providing comments regarding companies’ presentations of non-GAAP financial measures in public filings.  Working with Audit Analytics, we surveyed SEC Staff comment letters provided to mortgage real estate investment trusts (“REITs”) in 2018 and 2017 and observed a significant increase in…

In recent years, the Staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) has been providing comments regarding companies’ presentations of non-GAAP financial measures in public filings.  We surveyed and discussed the non-GAAP comments issued by the Staff to REITs, which can be found here.  In the period since the publication of the survey,…

Global REIT IPOs decreased dramatically – down 47 percent – from 49 REIT IPOs in 2017 to 26 REIT IPOs in 2018. This decrease reflects a difficult capital-raising market, with pressures from rising interest rates and a softening real estate market in the United States, and signals changes in future REIT fundraising activities.

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At the Practising Law Institute’s Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, a number of updates were provided by the Staff regarding ongoing initiatives within the Office of Small Business.  The Staff reviewed the recently adopted amendments to the definition of “smaller reporting company” (SRC) and directed practitioners to its Small Entity Compliance Guide.  The Staff …

On September 6, 2018, House Committee on Financial Services Chairman Jeb Hensarling and Representative John Delaney released a discussion draft of the Bipartisan Housing Finance Reform Act (the “Act”).  The Act would require eligible private credit enhancers (as approved by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, “PCEs”) to engage in approved credit risk transfer transactions.  PCEs…