Ana G. O'Brien

In the capital markets area, Ms. O’Brien has represented numerous issuers and investment banks in connection with IPOs and other transactions, including those for:

• American Assets Trust, Inc. 
• Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc. 
• Claros Mortgage Trust, Inc. 
• Digital Realty Trust, Inc. 
• Essex Property Trust, Inc. 
• Essential Properties Realty Trust, Inc. 
• Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc. 
• Kilroy Realty Corporation
• Kimco Realty Corporation 
• Realty Income Corporation
• Redwood Trust, Inc. 
• Safehold, Inc. 
• Simon Property Group
• Spirit Realty Corporation 
• Ventas, Inc. 

In the mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures area, Ms. O'Brien has in recent years represented:

• Digital Realty Trust in its US$1.7 billion acquisition of a 55% interest in Teraco Data Environments, a South African colocation and data center services provider, and related joint venture arrangements
• Digital Realty Trust in its US$1.8 billion acquisition of Ascenty Data Centers e Telecomunicações, a premier Brazilian data center provider
• Digital Realty Trust in its US$1.2 billion joint venture with Brookfield Infrastructure to invest in Ascenty Data Centers e Telecomunicações
• Invitation Homes in its agreement to form a US$375 million venture and subsequent US$300 million venture with Rockpoint Group
• Realty Income Corporation in its US$50 billion merger with VEREIT
• Cole Office & Industrial REIT II in its US$4.9 billion merger with Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT
• Digital Realty Trust in its US$8.4 billion acquisition of Interxion, creating a leading global provider of data center, colocation, and interconnection solutions
• Simon Property Group in its US$3.4 billion acquisition of Taubman Centers, and acquisition of an 80% stake in Taubman Realty Group
• Digital Realty Trust in its US$1.4 billion sale and joint venture of hyper-scale data centers with Maple Tree Investments and Mapletree Industrial Trust
• Eastdil Secured in its joint venture and recapitalization with Temasek and certain institutional clients of Guggenheim Investments
• BRE Properties in its US$15.4 billion merger of equals with Essex Property Trust
• Digital Realty Trust in its US$7.6 billion acquisition of DuPont Fabros Technology
• Spirit Realty Capital in its US$7.4 billion merger with Cole Credit Property Trust II
• Spirit Realty Capital in its US$3 billion spin-off and creation of a new public company, MTA REIT
• Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II (special committee) in its US$4 billion sale to NorthStar Realty Finance Corp.
• Hudson Pacific Properties in its sale of a 49% interest its Hollywood media portfolio to Blackstone Property Partners
• Hudson Pacific in its acquisition of a US$3.7 billion portfolio from The Blackstone Group
• Hudson Pacific Properties in its joint ventures with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board for multiple Class A properties
• Hudson Pacific Properties in connection with its up to US$475 million joint venture with Macerich to redevelop the Westside Pavilion in Los Angeles
• Realty Income Corporation in its US$2.95 billion acquisition of American Realty Capital Trust
• MPG Office Trust in its US$2.3 billion merger with an affiliate of Brookfield
• Digital Realty Trust in its US$1.89 billion acquisition of Telx
• Digital Realty Trust in its US$874 million acquisition of eight high-quality, carrier-neutral data centers in Europe from Equinix
• Special Committee of Apollo Residential Mortgage in its US$641 million merger with Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance
• Digital Realty Trust in its US$369 million joint venture with Prudential Real Estate Investors and its US$187.6 million joint venture with Griffin Capital Essential Asset REIT
• CoreCivic (f/k/a Corrections Corporation of America) in its US$157.5 million acquisition of Avalon Correctional Services