
Paige Anderson

901 East Byrd Street
Suite 1500
Richmond, Virginia 23219

Paige’s practice focuses on the federal income tax aspects of business transactions, particularly in the real estate industry. She advises real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity sponsors and investors, and other investors on a variety of tax matters, including the formation of public and private REITs, tax planning associated with equity and mortgage REITs, qualified opportunity zones, capital markets transactions and IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, reorganizations, financings, and tax aspects of foreign investment in U.S. real estate.
A “collaborative and collegial lawyer”, Paige is recognized nationwide as “Up and Coming” in REITs: Tax by Chambers USA (2022). She has also been recognized as a “Rising Star” by Virginia Super Lawyers and “One to Watch” by The Best Lawyers in America©.
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
DigitalBridge in its acquisition of a controlling stake in Vertical Bridge Holdings, the largest private owner and operator of wireless communications infrastructure in the U.S.
WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust in its $3.1 billion sale to Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.
Lonestar Resources in its $370 million sale to Penn Virginia Corporation
Jera Asset Management and Setzer Properties in the formation of a joint venture with the Australian Superannuation Pension Fund, including the roll-up of a seed portfolio of net leased trucking terminal and logistics properties valued at approximately $500 million into the joint venture
Data Foundry, Inc., a carrier-neutral colocation and data center provider, in its $420 million sale to Switch, Inc.
WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust in its $370 million contribution of its U.S. distribution and logistics properties to a joint venture with the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario
CTO Realty Growth, Inc. in its conversion to a real estate investment trust (REIT)
Global Medical REIT in its $18.1 million acquisition of Inter-American Management resulting in a management internalization
Alpine Income Property Trust, Inc. in its $143 million initial public offering of common stock and subsequent underwritten offerings
NorthStar Realty Europe Corp. as special tax counsel in its merger with Core Paneuro 2019 13 Sarl
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
WildHorse Resource Development in its $4 billion sale to Chesapeake Energy
CYS Investments, an agency mortgage REIT, in its $1.475 billion merger with Two Harbors Investment Corp., a leading hybrid mortgage REIT
Oncor Electric Delivery Company in its $2.2 billion acquisition of InfraREIT
Issuers and underwriters in public and private equity and debt offerings by REITs
Virtua Partners (US) as special tax counsel in the formation of a QOZ fund focused on renovating, rebranding, and operating a hotel in Pensacola, Florida
Devon Energy Corp. in the $3.125 billion sale of ownership interests in EnLink Midstream Partners and EnLink Midstream to Global Infrastructure Partners
Global Atlantic Financial Group in the $1.175 billion acquisition from Southern Power of a 33 percent minority interest in its solar portfolio (comprised of 26 operating solar facilities representing approximately 1.7 gigawatts of capacity)
Credentials
- University of Virginia School of Law, J.D. 2013 (Order of the Coif; Executive Editor, Virginia Law Review)
- University of Virginia, B.S., Commerce with distinction, 2007
- Legal 500 U.S., Real Estate: REITs, 2022
- Chambers USA, REITs (Nationwide), 2021 and 2022; “Associate to Watch” in REITs: Tax (Nationwide), 2021; “Up and Coming” in REITs: Tax (Nationwide), 2022
- Selected to the Virginia Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers (Thomson Reuters), 2020–2023
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” Tax Law (Richmond), 2021–2023
- Kayo Conference Series, “Top 23 in ’23: Women in REITs,” 2023
- President Emeritus: Junior Board of Historic Richmond
- Member: Virginia Bar Association
- Virginia
- New York
- EventJune 12, 2023 - June 14, 2023Loews Miami Beach Hotel
- CLE EventJune 7, 2023Vinson & Elkins LLP - New York Office
- Rankings & AwardsApril 28, 2023
- Event RecapApril 12, 2023
- InsightMarch 2, 2023
- Deals & CasesJanuary 18, 2023
- InsightJanuary 17, 2023
V&E REIT Update
- Deals & CasesDecember 12, 2022
- Deals & CasesDecember 5, 2022
- Deals & CasesSeptember 7, 2022
- Rankings & AwardsAugust 18, 2022
- Deals & CasesAugust 4, 2022
- Rankings & AwardsJune 16, 2022
- InsightJune 14, 2022
- Rankings & AwardsJune 1, 2022
- InsightMay 3, 2022
Published in Tax Notes Federal, April 4, 2022
- Rankings & AwardsMay 2, 2022
- InsightMarch 1, 2022
V&E REIT Update
- Deals & CasesFebruary 16, 2022
- Deals & CasesJanuary 11, 2022
- Deals & CasesDecember 20, 2021
- Deals & CasesDecember 20, 2021
- Press ReleaseDecember 1, 2021
- Deals & CasesNovember 17, 2021
- Deals & CasesNovember 16, 2021
- Deals & CasesNovember 15, 2021
- Deals & CasesSeptember 15, 2021
- Deals & CasesSeptember 9, 2021
- Deals & CasesAugust 10, 2021
- Deals & CasesAugust 9, 2021
- Deals & CasesJuly 12, 2021
- Deals & CasesJuly 7, 2021
- Deals & CasesJuly 6, 2021
- Deals & CasesJune 16, 2021
- Deals & CasesJune 14, 2021
- Deals & CasesJune 7, 2021
- Deals & CasesJune 7, 2021
- Deals & CasesMay 3, 2021
- Deals & CasesApril 27, 2021
- Deals & CasesMarch 29, 2021
- Deals & CasesMarch 18, 2021
- Event RecapMarch 3, 2021
- Deals & CasesMarch 2, 2021
- Deals & CasesMarch 1, 2021
- Deals & CasesFebruary 1, 2021
- Deals & CasesJanuary 25, 2021
- Deals & CasesJanuary 7, 2021
- “Women in REITs – A Powerful Presence in the Real Estate World,” Kayo Women’s Real Estate Summit, June 24, 2020 (moderator)
- “What’s All the Buzz About Opportunity Zones?” 2019 Kayo Women’s Real Estate Summit, June 24, 2019 (moderator)