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Caroline Bailey
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901 East Byrd Street
Suite 1500
Richmond, Virginia 23219
![Caroline Bailey](https://media.velaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/12110221/103382_Bailey_4x5_web-819x1024.jpg)
Caroline’s principal area of practice is corporate finance and securities law, including securities offerings, private equity, mergers and acquisitions and general corporate representation with a particular concentration on Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). She has also been recognized as a “Rising Star“ by Virginia Super Lawyers and a “One to Watch” by The Best Lawyers in America©.
Capital Markets
Global Medical REIT Inc. in its $150 million initial public offering of common stock and all of its subsequent capital markets transactions including five follow-on underwritten public offerings with an approximate transactional value of $343 million; three ATM offerings with an approximate transactional value of $250 million; and its $77 million public offering of Series A cumulative redeemable preferred stock
CYS Investments, Inc. in its $172 million ATM program
Orchid Island Capital, Inc. in its $125 million ATM program
Underwriters to DiamondRock Hospitality Company in its $200 million ATM program
Underwriters to Urban Edge Properties in its $250 million ATM program
Underwriters to Urban Edge Properties in its $194 million public offering of common stock
Underwriters to Clipper Realty Inc. in its $88 million initial public offering of common stock
Underwriters to NETSTREIT Corp. in its $233 million Rule 144A offering of common stock
Underwriters to PLH Group, Inc. in its $208 million Rule 144A offering of class A-1 common stock
Ellington Financial Inc. in its $115 million public offering of Series A fixed-to-floating rate cumulative redeemable preferred stock
Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT in its $47 million public offering of common shares
Underwriters to Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust in its $40 million public offering of Series D cumulative convertible preferred stock
Placement agent to Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust in its $90 million private offering of preferred stock and subsequent exchange offer
WPT Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust in its $3.1 billion sale to Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc.
Global Medical REIT in its $18.1 million acquisition of Inter-American Management resulting in a management internalization
The Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Owens Realty Mortgage, a specialty finance REIT, in its $200 million merger with Ready Capital Corporation, a real estate finance company
CYS Investments, an agency mortgage REIT, in its $1.475 billion merger with Two Harbors Investment Corp., a leading hybrid mortgage REIT
Special Committee of the Board of Directors of MVP REIT II in the acquisition of MVP REIT by MVP REIT II in a stock-for-stock merger
Routinely advises multiple publicly traded corporations on 1933 Act and 1934 Act compliance, listing exchange requirements, corporate governance, and board of directors matters
Credentials
- University of Richmond School of Law, J.D. magna cum laude, 2014 (Order of the Coif; McNeil Law Society; University of Richmond Law Review)
- Washington & Lee University, B.S., Business Administration with Special Attainments in Commerce cum laude, 2011
- Selected to the Virginia Rising Stars list, Super Lawyers® (Thomson Reuters), 2022-2024
- The Best Lawyers in America© (BL Rankings, LLC), “Ones to Watch,” (Richmond): Mergers and Acquisitions Law, Securities/Capital Markets Law, 2022–2024
- Virginia
- InsightJune 26, 2024
V&E Capital Markets Update
- Rankings & AwardsApril 25, 2024
- Deals & CasesJanuary 12, 2024
- Rankings & AwardsAugust 21, 2023
- Deals & CasesJune 23, 2023
- Rankings & AwardsApril 28, 2023
- Deals & CasesFebruary 28, 2023
- Rankings & AwardsAugust 18, 2022
- Deals & CasesAugust 4, 2022
- Rankings & AwardsMay 2, 2022
- Deals & CasesJanuary 24, 2022
- Deals & CasesJanuary 11, 2022
- “2017 Kayo Women’s Real Estate Investment Summit,” April 24-25, 2017 (speaker)