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Practice Expertise
- Business Tax-in development
- Capital Markets and Securities
- Hospitality
- Asset-Backed Securitization
Areas of Practice
- Asset-Backed Securitization
- Business Tax-in development
- Capital Markets and Securities
- Hospitality
- Financial Services
- International Tax
- Private Investment Funds
- Real Estate Capital Markets
- Real Estate Investment and Finance
- Real Estate, Development and Finance
- Structured Finance and Securitization
- Tax View More
Profile
George is nationally recognized for his in-depth experience in the formation, structuring, financing, and related tax aspects of REITs, REMICs, securitizations, private investment funds, and other financial instruments. George also deals extensively with the tax aspects of derivatives and other complex financial products. George is chair emeritus of the firm’s executive committee, and former head of its Tax and ERISA practice.
He is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences on REITs, securitization and other financial products.
Bar Admissions
Education
JD, University of Virginia School of Law, 1981
AB, Princeton University, magna cum laude, 1978
Areas of Practice
- Asset-Backed Securitization
- Business Tax-in development
- Capital Markets and Securities
- Hospitality
- Financial Services
- International Tax
- Private Investment Funds
- Real Estate Capital Markets
- Real Estate Investment and Finance
- Real Estate, Development and Finance
- Structured Finance and Securitization
- Tax
Professional Career
Significant Accomplishments
Professional Associations
Professional Activities and Experience
- Serves as tax counsel to a large number of REITs, with particular concentration on mortgage, hotel, health care, and other specialty REITs.
- Structured and provided tax opinions on a large number of REIT capital markets and merger and acquisition transactions.
- Represents a number of publicly traded specialty finance companies and private investment funds that invest, directly and through derivatives, in real estate, mortgage loans, mortgage-backed securities, corporate loans and other fixed-income investments.
- Structured and provided tax opinions on over $100 billion of REMIC and other securitization transactions.
- Particular experience in representing buyers and sellers of REMIC residual interests and other complex mortgage-backed securities and derivatives.
- Represents REITs, REMIC sponsors, and private investment funds in IRS audits.
Professional Associations
- Fellow, Virginia Law Foundation, Class of 2018
- Former Chair, American Bar Association (ABA) Tax Section
- Former Chair, American College of Tax Counsel
- Former Vice Chair (Communications), ABA Tax Section
- Former Chair, Tax Shelter Committee, ABA Tax Section
- Former Chair, Committee on Financial Transactions, ABA Tax Section
- Former Chair, Asset Securitization Subcommittee and REMIC Task Force, ABA Tax Section
Professional Activities and Experience
- Recognized as an Eminent Practitioner (2016) and Leader in REIT, National, Band 1, Chambers USA, 2007-2017
- Leading Lawyer in REITs, Legal 500 USA, 2016-2017
Articles
- Proposed Treasury Regulations May Recharacterize Taxable REIT Subsidiary Debt, Real Estate Finance Journal
- Real Estate Capital Markets – 2015 Year in Review
- Midstream Energy REITs: A New Structure
- Commercial Mortgage REITs: Tax Considerations When Dealing with Distressed Mortgage Loans, Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law
- Real Estate Capital Markets – 2022 Year in Review
- Real Estate Capital Markets – 2021 Year in Review
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