Overview

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 (QOZs), capital markets transactions and IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, reorganizations, financings, and tax aspects of foreign investment in U.S. real estate.

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Experience Highlights

  • Underwriters to a major power and data center developer in its $784 million initial public offering of common stock

  • Rayonier Inc. (NYSE: RYN) as special tax counsel in its $8.2 billion merger with PotlatchDeltic (Nasdaq: PCH)

  • Sunoco LP in its $7.3 billion acquisition of NuStar Energy L.P.

  • Ellington Financial Inc. in its $154 million acquisition of Arlington Asset Investment Corp. for a combination of stock and cash consideration

  • Co-led ABA Section of Taxation’s comment letter on Treasury and IRS’s proposed regulations under Sections 897 and 892 regarding issues affecting foreign investment in U.S. real estate

  • IFM Investors in the formation of joint venture with DigitalBridge to acquire Switch, a global technology infrastructure company focused on ultra-advanced data centers, in an $11 billion take-private transaction

  • B&D Holdings in a joint venture with H.I.G. Realty Partners to recapitalize an existing 50 property, 2.2 million square foot portfolio owned by B&D and consisting of industrial properties located in Texas, Minnesota, North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, New Mexico, New Jersey and New York and a separate programmatic joint venture to pursue and acquire industrial properties throughout the U.S.

  • Goldman Sachs in the $245 million acquisition of three Washington state tree fruit packing and farming operations

  • Preferred Apartment Communities, a REIT owner and operator of Class A multifamily properties and grocery-anchored retail assets, in its $5.8 billion acquisition by Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.

  • 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.

  • Jera Asset Management and Setzer Properties in formation of a joint venture with the Australian Superannuation Pension Fund, including the roll-up of a seed portfolio of net leased transportation terminal and logistics properties

  • 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 REIT

  • Underwriters to NETSTREIT Corp. in its $259 million initial public offering of common stock

  • TPG Re Finance Trust, Inc. as special tax counsel in its $325 million commitment of preferred stock and warrants to Starwood Capital Group

  • Rayonier as special tax counsel in the $554 million acquisition of Pope Resources using an innovative tax-deferred UPREIT structure

  • 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

  • Oncor Electric Delivery Company in its $2.2 billion acquisition of InfraREIT

  • CYS Investments, an agency mortgage REIT, in its $1.475 billion merger with Two Harbors Investment Corp., a leading hybrid mortgage REIT

Credentials

Education

  • New York University School of Law, LL.M, Tax, 2026
  • 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

Admissions

  • Virginia
  • New York

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Recognitions

  • Legal 500 U.S., Real Estate: REITs, 2022, 2024–2026
  • Chambers USA, REITs (Nationwide), 2021 and 2022; “Associate to Watch” in REITs: Tax (Nationwide), 2021; “Up and Coming” in REITs: Tax (Nationwide), 2022; REITs: Tax (Nationwide), 2023–2026
  • 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), 2021–2024
  • The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), Tax Law (Richmond), 2025–2027
  • Kayo Conference Series, “Top 23 in ’23: Women in REITs,” 2023
Insights

Events

Paige Anderson to Speak on BARBRI Webinar

Partner Paige Anderson will speak on BARBRI’s live video CLE program, “Mastering Public and Private REITs: Key Tax, Structuring, Financing, …

September 22, 2026

September 22, 2026 • 1-minute read

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Paige Anderson and Vinay Prabhakar to Present on REIT Tax and Data Centers in Upcoming myLawCLE Webinar

Partners Paige Anderson and Vinay Prabhakar will present on myLawCLE’s live CLE program, “REIT Tax in the Data Center Era: …

September 18, 2026

September 18, 2026 • 1-minute read

Client Alerts

QOZ Compliance Just Got Teeth: Treasury Proposes Daily Penalties and Mandatory Reporting for Qualified Opportunity Funds

On September 11, 2026, the Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) published proposed regulations (REG‑116506‑25) …

September 15, 2026

September 15, 2026 • 5-minute read

Client Alerts

Navigating the New QOZ Landscape: IRS Notice 2026-40 Explained

On June 18, 2026, the Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service released Notice 2026-40 (the “Notice”), announcing …

June 29, 2026

June 29, 2026 • 6-minute read

Events

Vinson & Elkins Sponsoring and Speaking at Kayo’s 2026 Energy & Infrastructure Summit

Vinson & Elkins is a Silver Level Sponsor of the Kayo Women’s 2026 Energy & Infrastructure Summit, taking place June …

June 23, 2026

June 23, 2026 • 1-minute read

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