Real Estate

Latham’s Real Estate Practice guides clients through complex and high-stakes real estate transactions of every kind everywhere in the world. We regularly advise a full spectrum of market participants, including public and private investors, private equity, institutional investors, developers, financial institutions, and alternative lenders.

We draw on disciplines across the Latham platform to serve clients in the real estate industry and efficiently execute their transactions. Our client teams marshal resources from across the firm, and around the globe, to seamlessly advise on every aspect of a real estate deal, from start to finish.

Our capabilities span the full spectrum of multi-jurisdictional real estate transactions, ranging from acquisition, disposition, and development of large properties or property portfolios to corporate and finance matters. These include corporate mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, public offerings, and LBOs, as well as REIT and UPREIT transactions. We also advise on all elements of transaction financing, including construction financing, mortgage financing, mezzanine financing, securitization, warehousing, loan-on-loan transactions, and mortgage debt portfolio acquisitions and financings.

Latham’s global real estate capabilities span practice areas, sectors, and asset classes, including hospitality and gaming, data centers, industrial, healthcare, mixed-use, multi-family, office, and retail. This broad experience and commercially focused, cross-disciplinary approach have led to our engagement on many of the sector’s most consequential and transformative matters in jurisdictions that span the globe.

Latham’s Real Estate Practice guides clients through complex and high-stakes real estate transactions of every kind everywhere in the world.
Kneib, Lewis W.
December 16, 2025 Recognition

MVP: Latham’s Lewis Kneib

Capital Markets partner and Global Co-Chair of the REIT Industry Group named a 2025 Capital Markets MVP for steering the blockbuster IPOs of Voyager, SmartStop Self Storage REIT, and Lineage, the largest IPO of 2024 and the largest IPO of a real estate company or REIT in history.

Financial Times Most Innovative Law Firm 2025
December 10, 2025 Recognition

Latham Named Most Innovative Law Firm in North America

Firm captures the top honor and earns commendations for three individual practitioners, as well as for its excellence in the practice of law, pro bono matters, and business of law initiatives.

Bates, Rachel S.K.
November 20, 2025 Recognition

MVP: Latham’s Rachel S.K. Bates

Global Vice Chair of Latham's Real Estate Practice was named a 2025 Real Estate MVP by Law360 for her lead role advising clients on multiple multibillion-dollar transactions.