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Christopher C. Green
Christopher C. Green
Partner — Real Estate
Partner — Real Estate

Christopher C. Green

Christopher C. Green
Washington, D.C.

2200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 500 West
Washington, D.C. 20037

start quote symbolI particularly enjoy the opportunity our practice affords us to work with highly entrepreneurial individuals as they lay the building blocks for vibrant and sustainable businesses. It is especially rewarding to serve as a trusted legal adviser to those clients throughout the life-cycle of those businesses.end quote symbol
Christopher C. Green

Experience Highlights

  • New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. in its initial public offering and all of its subsequent capital markets transactions including numerous follow-on underwritten public offerings of common stock, preferred stock and debt securities and ATM offering programs and private offerings of common stock (PIPE transaction) and debt securities (including subsequent exchange offer) having an approximate aggregate transactional value of more than $4 billion

  • Ellington Financial Inc. in its initial public offering and subsequent capital markets transactions including numerous follow-on underwritten public offerings of common shares and preferred shares, ATM offering programs and investment grade offerings of senior notes with an approximate aggregate transactional value of more than $2.4 billion

  • Underwriters to NNN REIT, Inc. in numerous capital markets transactions, including follow-on underwritten public offerings of common stock, depositary shares and investment-grade debt securities and ATM offering programs having an approximate aggregate transactional value of more than $10 billion

  • Ellington Financial Inc. in its $154 million acquisition of Arlington Asset Investment Corp. for a combination of stock and cash consideration

  • Crosstimbers Capital in its $610 million sale of the Red Dot self-storage portfolio of 187 properties and management platform

  • Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Moody National REIT I in the merger of Moody National REIT I and Moody National REIT II

  • New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. in its initial public offering and all of its subsequent capital markets transactions including numerous follow-on underwritten public offerings of common stock, preferred stock and debt securities and ATM offering programs and private offerings of common stock (PIPE transaction) and debt securities (including subsequent exchange offer) having an approximate aggregate transactional value of more than $4 billion

  • Ellington Financial Inc. in its initial public offering and subsequent capital markets transactions including numerous follow-on underwritten public offerings of common shares and preferred shares, ATM offering programs and investment grade offerings of senior notes with an approximate aggregate transactional value of more than $2.4 billion

  • Underwriters to NNN REIT, Inc. in numerous capital markets transactions, including follow-on underwritten public offerings of common stock, depositary shares and investment-grade debt securities and ATM offering programs having an approximate aggregate transactional value of more than $10 billion

  • Underwriters to CubeSmart in numerous capital markets transactions, including follow-on underwritten public offerings of common shares, preferred shares and investment-grade debt securities and ATM offering programs having an approximate aggregate transactional value of more than $6 billion

  • Underwriters to Four Corners Property Trust, Inc. in its capital markets transactions, including a follow-on underwritten public offering of common stock and multiple ATM offering programs having an approximate aggregate transactional value of more than $1.5 billion

  • Underwriters to NETSTREIT Corp. in numerous capital markets transactions, including its initial public offering of common stock and multiple follow-on underwritten public offerings of common stock and ATM offering programs having an approximate aggregate transactional value of more than $1.5 billion

  • Underwriters to DiamondRock Hospitality Company in numerous capital markets transactions, including its initial Rule 144A private placement, its initial public offering and multiple follow-on underwritten public offerings of common stock and preferred stock and ATM offering programs having an approximate aggregate transactional value of more than $2.5 billion

  • Underwriters and initial purchasers to RLJ Lodging Trust in capital markets transactions, including two Rule 144A private placements of high-yield debt securities and its ATM offering program having an approximate aggregate transactional value of more than $1.1 billion

  • Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT in its initial public offering and subsequent capital markets transactions

  • Issuers and underwriters on numerous initial public offerings, secondary, “at-the-market,” and follow-on public securities offerings, as well as private securities offerings under Rule 144A and Regulation D

  • Ellington Financial Inc. in its $154 million acquisition of Arlington Asset Investment Corp. for a combination of stock and cash consideration

  • Crosstimbers Capital in its $610 million sale of the Red Dot self-storage portfolio of 187 properties and management platform

  • Special Committee of the Board of Directors of Moody National REIT I in the merger of Moody National REIT I and Moody National REIT II

  • New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. in its acquisition of a 50% interest in Constructive LLC

  • New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. in its preferred and common equity investment in and recapitalization of a portfolio of multifamily properties

  • New York Mortgage Trust in its $50 million investment in Headlands Asset Management Fund III

  • New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. in its acquisition of RiverBanc LLC

  • Independent Directors of the Board of Directors of Benefit Street Realty Trust in negotiation of amended external management agreement

  • New York Mortgage Trust, Inc. in the sale of The New York Mortgage Company LLC to IndyMac Bank

  • Columbia Equity Trust, Inc. in its all-cash sale to affiliates of JP Morgan’s Special Situations Property Fund

  • Equity Inns Inc. in its all-cash sale to affiliates of Whitehall Street Global Real Estate Limited Partnership

  • Winston Hotels Inc. in its entry into a definitive agreement and plan of merger with affiliates of Och-Ziff Real Estate and Norge Churchill, Inc. and its subsequent merger with Inland American Real Estate Trust and the termination of its agreement and plan of merger with Och-Ziff

  • Hotel and other REITs in multiple joint venture transactions

Credentials

  • University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 2003
  • Hamilton College, B.A., 1993
  • Selected to the Client Choice Awards, Capital Markets – Georgia, International Law Office and Lexology USA & Canada (Law Business Research, Ltd.), 2012 and 2013
  • Legal 500 U.S., Finance: Capital Markets: Equity Offerings, 2017; Real Estate: REITs, 2017–2024; Finance: Capital Markets: Debt Offerings, 2022 and 2023
  • Chambers USA, REITs (Nationwide), 2018–2024; “Up and Coming” in REITs (Nationwide), 2018 and 2019
  • IFLR1000, 2023
  • Member: National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts
  • Virginia
  • Georgia
  • District of Columbia
  • “Real Estate M&A and REIT Transactions,” Practicing Law Institute, New York, 2021-2025 (panelist)
  • “Navigating the Distressed Commercial Real Estate Environment Ahead,” REIT Series, V&E New York Office, June 7, 2023 (panelist)
  • “PIPE Transactions in the REIT Space,” REIT Series, V&E New York Office, September 17, 2020 (panelist)
  • “REIT Internalization Transactions,” REIT Series, V&E New York Office, October 30, 2018 (panelist)
  • “REITs and Infrastructure Investment,” V&E New York Office, April 18, 2018 (panelist)
  • “IRS Issues Guidance on Elective Cash Stock Dividends by REITs,” V&E REIT Update E-communication, August 16, 2017 (co-author)