Latham & Watkins Advises on Essential Properties Realty Trust’s Upsized Underwritten Public Offering

Latham & Watkins LLP represented the underwriters in the upsized underwritten public offering of 12,499,999 shares of common stock of Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: EPRT), including the full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares, all of which were offered in connection with forward sale agreements, at a public offering price of US$32.20 per share. The offering closed on February 19, 2026.

Advice was provided on capital markets matters by a team led by Los Angeles and New York partners Lewis Kneib and Julian Kleindorfer, and Chicago partner Jonathan Sarna, with associates Andrew Bentz, Will Coughlin, and Steve Hess; on derivatives matters by New York partner Reza Mojtabaee‑Zamani and counsel Christopher Yu, with associate Daniel Weiss; and on tax matters by Los Angeles partner Ana O’Brien, with associate Joseph Marcus.