
Christina N. McLeod

2200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 500 West
Washington, DC 20037

Christina advises partnerships, corporations, and individuals on the federal income tax aspects of complex domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, reorganizations, and private equity. She also represents taxpayers in tax controversies involving complex domestic and international business transactions.
The following is a list of representative matters in which Christina has assisted.
Experience Highlights
Bluerock Residential Growth REIT as special tax counsel in its $3.6 billion acquisition by affiliates of Blackstone Real Estate and the spin-off its single-family rental business into Bluerock Homes Trust, a newly formed REIT
Spartan Acquisition Corp. II, a SPAC sponsored by funds managed by an affiliate of Apollo Global Management, in its $1.3 billion business combination with Sunlight Financial, a premier U.S. residential solar financing platform
Alpine Income Property Trust, Inc. in its $164 million initial public offering of common stock
Highwoods Properties, Inc. as special tax counsel in multiple public offerings of investment grade senior notes totalling more than $1 billion
Underwriters to NETSTREIT Corp. in its $233 million Rule 144A offering of common stock; its $259 million initial public offering of common stock; its $204 million public offering of common stock; and its $250 million ATM program; and its $230 million public offering of common stock
CTO Realty Growth, Inc. in its conversion to a real estate investment trust (REIT)
Apollo Global Management in its acquisition of Total Operations & Production Services from Black Bay Energy Capital
Clients in connection with private letter rulings (PLRs) submitted to the Internal Revenue Service
Credentials
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2018 (Financial Editor, Virginia Law & Business Review; International Tax Moot Court Team – First Place in the International and European Tax Moot Court Competition at KU Leuven)
- University of Virginia, B.S. Commerce (Concentrations: Finance and Marketing), 2012
- Senior Utility Analyst – Division of Utility Accounting & Finance, Virginia State Corporation Commission, 2012–2015
- District of Columbia
- Virginia
- U.S. Tax Court
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