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Caroline Bailey
Caroline Bailey
Senior Associate — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions
E: cbailey@velaw.com T: +1.804.327.6315
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Senior Associate — Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions

Caroline Bailey

Caroline Bailey
Richmond
T: +1.804.327.6315
F: +1.804.479.8276

901 East Byrd Street
Suite 1500
Richmond, VA 23219

E: cbailey@velaw.com
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Caroline Bailey

Caroline’s principal area of practice is corporate finance and securities law, including securities offerings, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate representation with a particular concentration on Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs).

Capital Markets

  • Global Medical REIT Inc. in its $150 million initial public offering of common stock and all of its subsequent capital markets transactions including multiple follow-on underwritten public offerings and ATM offerings of common stock and an underwritten public offering of preferred stock

  • CYS Investments, Inc. in its $172 million ATM program 

  • Orchid Island Capital, Inc. in its $125 million ATM program

  • Underwriters to DiamondRock Hospitality Company in its $200 million ATM program

  • Underwriters to Urban Edge Properties in its $250 million ATM program 

  • Underwriters to Urban Edge Properties in its $194 million public offering of common stock 

  • Underwriters to Clipper Realty Inc. in its $88 million initial public offering of common stock

  • Underwriters to NETSTREIT Corp. in its $233 million Rule 144A offering of common stock

  • Underwriters to PLH Group, Inc. in its $208 million Rule 144A offering of class A-1 common stock

  • Ellington Financial Inc. in its $115 million public offering of Series A fixed-to-floating rate cumulative redeemable preferred stock

  • Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT in its $47 million public offering of common shares 

  • Underwriters to Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust in its $40 million public offering of Series D cumulative convertible preferred stock

  • Placement agent to Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust in its $90 million private offering of preferred stock and subsequent exchange offer 

  • Global Medical REIT in its $18.1 million acquisition of Inter-American Management resulting in a management internalization

  • The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Owens Realty Mortgage, a specialty finance REIT, in its $200 million merger with Ready Capital Corporation, a real estate finance company

  • CYS Investments, an agency mortgage REIT, in its merger with Two Harbors Investment Corp., a leading hybrid mortgage REIT

  • Special Committee of the Board of Directors of MVP REIT II in the acquisition of MVP REIT by MVP REIT II in a stock-for-stock merger

  • Routinely advises multiple publicly traded corporations on 1933 Act and 1934 Act compliance, listing exchange requirements, corporate governance, and board of directors matters

Credentials

  • University of Richmond School of Law, J.D. magna cum laude, 2014 (Order of the Coif; McNeil Law Society; University of Richmond Law Review)
  • Washington & Lee University,  B.S., Business Administration with Special Attainments in Commerce cum laude, 2011
  • Virginia
  • “2017 Kayo Women’s Real Estate Investment Summit,” April 24-25, 2017 (speaker)

News & Insights

Deals & Cases
DiamondRock Hospitality Company Announces Pricing of Public Offering of Its 8.250% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock
August 21, 2020
Deals & Cases
NETSTREIT Corp. Prices Initial Public Offering
August 13, 2020
Deals & Cases
Global Medical REIT Inc. Announces Internalization Transaction
July 9, 2020
Deals & Cases
Ellington Financial Inc. Announces Pricing of Common Stock Offering
January 21, 2020