Nathaniel Marrs, a partner in the Chicago office, represents domestic and international fund sponsors, and other institutional owners and operators of real estate, in a variety of corporate transactions, including fund formations and investments, joint venture arrangements, portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, and financings.
Mr. Marrs has substantial experience with a variety of property types, including retail, industrial, office, multi-family, hotels and casinos, and a variety of debt and equity investment strategies, including CMBS, senior and subordinate financing, and preferred and common equity investments. He has worked with open and closed-end real estate fund sponsors focused on core, core-plus, value-add and opportunistic strategies, and his practice has a significant cross-border element, with non-US clients focused on investment opportunities throughout the United States, and US clients focused on investment opportunities throughout Asia, India, Europe and the United Kingdom. Mr. Marrs’ transactional experience includes multi-jurisdictional REIT and real estate investment management M&A transactions.
Mr. Marrs is an Advisory Board Member of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Real Estate Alumni Group (REAG) and a member of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA). He has been an active speaker on real estate-related topics throughout his career, including at NYU Schack, Harvard Business School and University of Chicago Booth School of Business. In addition, he has authored numerous articles for various publications, including PREA, The Real Estate Finance Journal and Financial Times.