Seth Weiner

Seth is a partner in the Capital Markets, Investment Funds, and Mergers and Acquisitions practices at Taft. For more than 20 years, Seth’s practice has focused on the areas of fund formation, public securities offerings, private placement securities offerings, federal securities law compliance, mergers and acquisitions, general corporate representation, FINRA registration and blue sky law compliance. He represents public and private companies in high growth industries, including real estate investment trusts (REITs), real estate funds and technology companies.

Seth regularly advises boards of directors, board committees and management in matters ranging from corporate governance issues to structuring and consummating complex corporate transactions, including public and private securities offerings. For companies seeking to enter the public markets, he has guided companies and their boards of directors through the public offering process, on-going reporting requirements and stock exchange requirements, as well as through the business and corporate governance issues encountered by a public company.

Seth is a frequent speaker on topics relating to public and private securities offerings and non-listed REITs.

• Represented a special committee of the board of directors of a REIT in connection with the stock-for-stock merger with another REIT, and a related self-administration transaction. At closing, the combined company had $4.75 billion in assets under management.
• Company counsel to a REIT in the listing of its common stock on the NYSE.
• Corporate counsel to a clinical healthcare REIT in the listing of its common stock on the NYSE.
• Counsel to an industrial real estate company in its public registration under the Securities Exchange Act.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $1.5 billion follow-on public offering of common stock by a REIT.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $3.5 billion initial public offering of common stock by a REIT.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $3.15 billion initial public offering of common stock by a clinical healthcare REIT.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $80 million public shelf offering of common stock by an eprocurement solutions company.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $2.975 billion initial public offering of common stock by a REIT.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $1.9 billion initial public offering of common stock by a clinical healthcare focused REIT.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $2.975 billion initial public offering of common stock by a REIT.
• Counsel the Issuer in the $500 million private offering of units by a limited partnership investing in debt on commercial real estate assets.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $2.975 billion initial public offering of common stock by a REIT.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $67 million follow-on public offering of common stock by an eprocurement solutions company.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $2.975 billion initial public offering of common stock by a REIT.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $57 million initial public offering of common stock by an eprocurement solutions company.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $1.0 billion follow-on public offering of common stock by a REIT.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $3.3 billion initial public offering of common stock by a clinical healthcare REIT.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $1.5 billion follow-on public offering of common stock by a REIT.
• Counsel to the issuer in the $476 million initial public offering of common stock by a REIT.