During the last several years, the real estate industry has been transformed and become global in scope. What was once a highly fragmented business dominated by private entrepreneurs and regional businesses has shifted to national and global real estate and property companies which operate much as any other sophisticated and capital-intensive industry group. This transformation has been fostered by dramatic changes to the methods of capital formation in the real estate industry and the rise of sophisticated real estate capital markets driven by listed and unlisted real estate companies, real estate investment trusts, private real estate funds catering to institutional investors, and a heightened focus by the leading investment and commercial banks. For owners and users of corporate real estate, the past years have brought an increased focus on real estate as a strategic asset, the centralization of cost management to bring greater efficiencies to the core business, and a trend toward outsourcing of specialized real estate support functions.
Jones Day has been on the forefront of these changes and has developed one of the world's premier real estate practices. We are involved in projects across all sectors of the real estate industry, including acquisitions and dispositions, real estate finance, equity investment, leasing and asset management, construction and development, joint ventures, funds, unit trusts, real estate investment trusts, mergers and acquisitions, and cross-border investment.
Our real estate practice was ranked #1 globally by Bloomberg in its Real Estate M&A league tables by number of deals from 2003-2006. Our practice is diverse and our footprint is global, with 125 property professionals across our 30 locations, who are joined by banking and finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, construction, tax, and dispute resolution lawyers, to provide a full range of services to our real estate industry clients. The extensive involvement of Jones Day's lawyers in the U.S., U.K., European, Asian and Latin American markets, as well as in projects involving cross-border and global portfolios, gives us a role in many of the most innovative projects in the industry today.
Our clients include prominent investment and commercial banks, real estate funds, institutional investors and their advisors, lenders and other capital providers in the forefront of the real estate capital markets, real estate investment trusts and public and private real estate and property companies, Fortune 500, FT 500 and other significant owners and users of corporate real estate, and hotel and hospitality companies.
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David J. Lowery
Dallas
Tel: 1.214.220.3939
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Robert C. Lee
Chicago
Tel: 1.312.782.3939
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David A. Roberts
London
Tel: 44.20.7039.5959
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