About
Brian Blitz is the co-chair of the Firm’s Corporate Group and has focused on complex corporate transactions for close to twenty-five years. Mr. Blitz focuses on all aspects of corporate transactions, including real estate platform formation and general corporate transactions in the real estate sector. Because of his background in mergers and acquisitions, he focuses on growing real estate companies through transformative investments from both the sponsor and investor side.
Mr. Blitz has routinely handled matters involving mergers and acquisitions, complex joint ventures, real estate platforms and creations of separately managed accounts, divestitures, carve-out transactions, corporate governance, and general corporate counseling. He also has represented clients in connection with strategic investments in fund managers from both the investor and manager side. In addition, Mr. Blitz has represented real estate investment companies and private equity funds in connection with asset acquisitions and restructuring of portfolio investments
Over his career, Mr. Blitz has advised clients in a range of private and publicly held companies and financial sponsors across an array of industries, including real estate and real estate adjacent businesses, REITs, manufactured housing, healthcare, aerospace, recycling, insurance, communications, retail, consumer products, and online gaming.
Mr. Blitz graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law where he was the Symposium Editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and received his B.A. from Cornell University. Mr. Blitz served as a law clerk to the Hon. Jan E. Dubois in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Mr. Blitz is admitted to practice in New York.
Outside of the office, Mr. Blitz enjoys watching his son’s baseball games, listening to live music (especially of the jam band variety), and supporting the New York Yankees and Washington Commanders.
Notable Transaction Expertise:
- The sale of a minority stake by Faropoint Ventures LLC to Invesco Real Estate;
- The sale of a majority stake in Counterpointe Sustainable Advisors LLC, a leader in C-PACE financing, to MassMutual;
- Representation of Almanac Realty Investors in connection with its investment in Storage Post;
- Representation of a prominent industrial property investor and operator in connection with a platform joint venture and several separately managed accounts;
- Representation of a regional accounting firm in connection with its acquisition by a national firm.
Publications:
- Corporate Transparency Act Update - U.S. Department of the Treasury confirms reporting companies are not currently required to file beneficial ownership information with FinCEN despite the U.S. Supreme Court's action in the Texas Top Cop Shop case
- The Corporate Transparency Act - Practical Implications For Real Estate Investors
- FinCEN Issues Proposed Rule on Beneficial Ownership under the Corporate Transparency Act
- Seven Ways the CARES Act Impacts the Real Estate Industry
- Disclose or Beware - What the Corporate Transparency Act Means For Investors and Lenders
Recognitions:
- Listed, Super Lawyers - New York Metro, Corporate and Real Estate, 2022 - 2024 Editions
- Listed, Super Lawyers - New York Metro, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2016 - 2017 Editions
- Listed, Super Lawyers - New York Metro Rising Star, Mergers & Acquisitions, 2014 - 2015
