Heath D. Linsky

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Overview
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Awards

Heath represents real estate-based companies, including public nonlisted and listed REITs, private REITs, and private real estate funds on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. He has decades of experience and intricate knowledge of the retail capital markets distribution channel.

Heath advises clients on corporate governance, audit, and special committee matters; general securities law compliance; and fund formation and organization, including real estate funds.

Additionally, Heath has served as chair of various committees with the Institute for Portfolio Alternatives, and is also active in NAREIT and ADISA. Heath also regularly presents on REIT and securities law topics at conferences.

  • Represented Steadfast Apartment REIT, Inc., a non-traded public REIT, in connection with its $7 billion merger with Independence Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: IRT)
  • Represented a software and services focused private equity firm in its sale of a portfolio retail company.
  • Represented Steadfast Apartment REIT, Inc. in its acquisitions of Steadfast Income REIT, Inc. and Steadfast Apartment REIT III, Inc., with a $3.3 billion resulting company.
  • Issuer counsel to numerous public, non-listed REITs’ initial public and follow-on offerings totaling over $20 billion.
  • Counsel to numerous perpetual life, NAV REITs in their private offerings to invest in various real estate classes, including but not limited to multifamily and wireless assets.
  • Counsel to numerous closed-end REITs in their private offerings to invest in data center assets, wireless infrastructure assets, and multifamily assets.
  • Counsel to various closed-end and open-end private real estate funds in their private offerings to invest in various asset classes.
  • Counsel to an Opportunity Zone Fund in connection with its $50 million private offering to invest in qualifying opportunity zone investments.
  • Counsel to Delaware Statutory Trusts in connection with their private offerings to facilitate Section 1031 transactions.
  • Counsel to a private venture capital fund in connection with its private offering to acquire certain portfolio investments.
  • Counsel to create a stapled-security list on the Australian Stock Exchange with a U.S. REIT subsidiary.
  • Chambers USA: REITs, USA Nationwide (2013-2015; 2019-2025)
  • Legal 500 United States: REITs (2011-2016, 2018-2019)
Overview

Heath represents real estate-based companies, including public nonlisted and listed REITs, private REITs, and private real estate funds on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. He has decades of experience and intricate knowledge of the retail capital markets distribution channel.

Heath advises clients on corporate governance, audit, and special committee matters; general securities law compliance; and fund formation and organization, including real estate funds.

Additionally, Heath has served as chair of various committees with the Institute for Portfolio Alternatives, and is also active in NAREIT and ADISA. Heath also regularly presents on REIT and securities law topics at conferences.

Representation Matters
  • Represented Steadfast Apartment REIT, Inc., a non-traded public REIT, in connection with its $7 billion merger with Independence Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: IRT)
  • Represented a software and services focused private equity firm in its sale of a portfolio retail company.
  • Represented Steadfast Apartment REIT, Inc. in its acquisitions of Steadfast Income REIT, Inc. and Steadfast Apartment REIT III, Inc., with a $3.3 billion resulting company.
  • Issuer counsel to numerous public, non-listed REITs’ initial public and follow-on offerings totaling over $20 billion.
  • Counsel to numerous perpetual life, NAV REITs in their private offerings to invest in various real estate classes, including but not limited to multifamily and wireless assets.
  • Counsel to numerous closed-end REITs in their private offerings to invest in data center assets, wireless infrastructure assets, and multifamily assets.
  • Counsel to various closed-end and open-end private real estate funds in their private offerings to invest in various asset classes.
  • Counsel to an Opportunity Zone Fund in connection with its $50 million private offering to invest in qualifying opportunity zone investments.
  • Counsel to Delaware Statutory Trusts in connection with their private offerings to facilitate Section 1031 transactions.
  • Counsel to a private venture capital fund in connection with its private offering to acquire certain portfolio investments.
  • Counsel to create a stapled-security list on the Australian Stock Exchange with a U.S. REIT subsidiary.
Insights

Speaking Engagements

IMN’s Winter Real Estate Private Funds

Firm Events

Hot Topics for Real Estate Funds and REITs

Articles + Publications

The OBBB Renews and Makes Permanent Qualified Opportunity Funds

Firm Events

The Tax and Securities Regulatory Outlook for Real Estate Funds and REITs

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Awards
  • Chambers USA: REITs, USA Nationwide (2013-2015; 2019-2025)
  • Legal 500 United States: REITs (2011-2016, 2018-2019)

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Education

  • Emory University School of Law, J.D., 1997
  • Emory University, B.A., 1994

Bar Admissions

  • Georgia