Jennifer H. Weiss

Jennifer H. Weiss focuses her practice on structuring, negotiating, and documenting complex tax oriented commercial transactions, primarily involving real estate, real estate securities, and capital market transactions. She represents traded REITs, public non-traded REITs and private REITs, and real estate operating companies, and is involved in most aspects of their portfolio acquisitions and dispositions, fund formations, joint ventures and strategic alliances, as well as the formation, qualification, and operation of REITs for federal income tax purposes. Jennifer also represents public, private, and institutional taxable and tax-exempt clients structuring collective investment and reinvestment vehicles, real estate securitization, equity and debt investment structuring and restructuring, work outs, and venture capital transactions on a tax-deferred basis, including all aspects of investments in pass-thru entities.

Concentrations

•Federal taxation •Securitized investments in real estate and asset acquisitions and dispositions •REIT taxation •Public and private capital market transactions •Fund formations •Complex strategic alliances including joint venture, partnership, LLC and other pass-thru entity transactions •Venture capital transactions •Pension investments in real estate involving issues of unrelated business taxable income •Foreign investments in real estate •Partnership structuring and restructuring •Work-out and debt restructuring •Organization, qualification and operation of real estate of investment trusts

Recognition & Leadership

Awards & Accolades

•Listed, The Legal 500 United States, Real Estate - Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), 2019-2020 and 2022-2025 •Team Member, a Law360 'Real Estate Practice Group of the Year,' 2023 •Listed, Boston magazine, 'Top Lawyers - Tax Law,' 2022