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Lewis Kneib, Global Co-Chair of the firm's REIT Industry Group, focuses on corporate finance and company representation. Lewis is particularly skilled with transactions in the real estate, hospitality, gaming, and alternative asset management industries. He previously served as Co-Chair of the firm’s Los Angeles Corporate Department.
His practice includes:
In the corporate finance area, Lewis has represented issuers and investment banks in connection with numerous recent IPO and first-time issuer transactions, including those for:
Lewis continues to be active on equity and debt offerings for many of the above companies. Representative capital markets transactions also include those for numerous other real estate, hospitality, gaming, alternative asset management, and technology companies, including:
Prior to joining Latham in 2007, Lewis served as a law clerk to Judge John M. Walker, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Judge Paul J. Kelly, Jr. of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
Prior to attending law school, Lewis was a Certified Public Accountant in the assurance practice of KPMG LLP.
Firm’s Capital Markets Practice once again earns top legal advisor league table rankings across debt and equity products and industries globally in Bloomberg, Dealogic, Deal Point Data, and LSEG.
Nadia Sager, Lewis Kneib, and Pardis Zomorodi honored for representing Lineage in the largest IPO of 2024 and the largest IPO of a real estate company or REIT in history.
Firm honored for steering record-breaking and innovative transactions and general excellence.