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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a global economic slowdown, but that doesn’t mean all economic activity is flagging — just ask members of V&E’s real estate practice. Since the start of the pandemic, the real estate group has closed a wide array of transactions worth approximately $3.7 billion across the U.S. “It’s more difficult to…
It all started with an out-of-the-blue phone call. Last year V&E partner Mike Saslaw was sitting in his office in Dallas when he received a call from someone he had never met, a senior investment banker named Kurt Andersen. Andersen, a Managing Director at Falls River Group, a boutique global investment banking firm specializing in…
It happened on an April Fools’ Day, but it was definitely no joke. On April 1, 2016, Vinson & Elkins officially established a dedicated Real Estate Investment Trust team when five partners with extensive REIT experience joined V&E from another firm. The new group collaborated with other V&E attorneys to take their REIT engagements to…