Warren Gorrell has led many of the largest and most complex M&A transactions and IPOs involving REITs and other real estate companies over the last 30 years. In addition to his M&A and Corporate & Finance practice, he previously served as our CEO Emeritus. Prior to that, he led us as Chairman and then Co-CEO for almost 15 years. He is one of the few law firm leaders to have maintained an active practice while leading a major firm.

Warren advises owners of office, retail, multifamily and industrial properties, hotels, and storage and data centers. He also advises major investment banking firms as underwriters in IPOs and other capital markets transactions and as financial advisers in M&A transactions. Warren also helps clients on other complex cross-border transactions in the real estate, energy, and technology industries.

Warren is active in acquisitions and business combinations of all types – mergers, stock purchases, asset purchases, partnership rollups and operating partnership unit transactions (both public and private), leveraged buyouts, and tender offers. He structures joint venture arrangements for the acquisition of individual properties, portfolios, and entire companies. He represents both issuers and underwriters in IPOs and other public offerings and private placements of equity and debt securities, reorganizations, and recapitalizations.

Warren has been named as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America (The National Law Journal, 2013 and 2006) and is recognized as one of the leading M&A and corporate lawyers in the United States and Washington, D.C. by leading legal rating services (Chambers, Legal 500, Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, and Legal Times). In 1999, The American Lawyer recognized him as a Dealmaker of the Year for leading the team that restructured Host Marriott from a C Corp into a REIT.