Brad Markoff is a shareholder in the Firm’s Los Angeles office, where he serves as Chair of the Real Estate Capital Markets practice.  As a member of the Corporate and Real Estate practice groups he focuses his practice on capital markets and complex financing transactions. He represents private and public companies, partnerships, and funds in a variety of U.S. domestic and Asia-based cross-border capital markets transactions, including capital raising in private offerings and IPOs, secondary offerings of debt and equity, mergers and acquisitions, roll-up transactions, and real estate portfolio acquisitions and dispositions.  Mr. Markoff has extensive experience in Asia-related transactions having previously lived and practiced in Hong Kong and the Peoples Republic of China.

Mr. Markoff is well known for his experience in complex financing transactions, including cross-border transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic investments in a wide variety of industries such as real estate, hospitality, financial services, technology, entertainment, and media. His clients include national governmental agencies, public and private real estate companies, real estate investment trusts, investment and commercial banks, and private equity funds.

Through his involvement with the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT) and the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (APREA), Mr. Markoff works with various governments around the globe to develop innovative financing structures and legislative initiatives, such as China’s asset-backed securitization law, the Philippines’ REIT framework, and NAREIT’s response to the corporate financial reporting and accounting requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

Mr. Markoff is a frequent author and speaker on topics related to cross-border finance, REITs, innovative financing structures, and mergers and acquisitions, having spoken at numerous conferences and university programs around the world, including teaching classes at Harvard and Tsinghua and speaking at conferences in the United States, Asia, and Europe.

Awards and Honors

  • The Best Lawyers in America, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law (2003-2025)
  • Who’s Who in the World (2014)
  • Chambers Global and USA, REITs (2007-2010)
  • Advisor for over 20 different publicly traded REITs in connection with formation transactions, IPO’s, secondary offerings of equity, debt securities, and hybrid derivative instruments and public merger transactions, requiring more than 250 separate filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the largest single paper filing in the Commission’s history.
  • Created Plain English Model Form S-11 for this filing at the request of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • Advisor to numerous REITs in connection with acquisitions of other real estate companies and real estate portfolios in both share exchange transactions and cash transactions.
  • Advisor to a leading financial services company in the alternative asset management space in connection with the formation, funding, and property acquisitions of a hospitality-focused REIT.
  • Formation of numerous real estate and venture capital private equity funds.
  • Advisor to a Los Angeles-based real estate company in connection with the establishment of numerous joint venture investments in urban-based mixed-use and residential projects and the formation of a $200 million-plus private equity fund.
  • Advisor to a Real Estate Private Equity Fund in connection with the sale of limited partnership interests through a Regulation A Offering.
  • Advisor to a Hong Kong-based merchant bank and investment sponsor in a variety of US and foreign-based investments.
  • Advisor to a US-based investment manager in connection with the investment by foreign investors in a US-based Data Center Fund.
  • Advisor to a US-based investment manager in connection with the investment in several joint ventures to acquire workforce housing properties.
  • Advisor to Inception REIT, an owner of US cannabis focused real property, in connection with an offering of common and preferred stock through a Regulation A offering and in connection with its merger with a publicly listed Canadian SPAC.
  • Advisor to a medical device manufacturer in connection with its offering of simple agreements for equity (SAFE) instruments.
  • Advisor to several Chinese-owned entertainment companies in the acquisition of a variety of media content and the global exploitation of such content through film, TV and streaming services.
  • Advisor to the Governor of North Carolina in connection with the State’s contested takeover of the North Carolina Railroad Company from its private shareholders.
  • Acted as Bond Counsel in connection with financing the construction of the Catawba Nuclear Power Station located in York County, South Carolina.
  • Advisor to the State of North Carolina and a consortium of Banks to negotiate the relocation to Raleigh, North Carolina, of the Carolina Hurricanes, a professional National Hockey League team, and to structure the financing needed to build a state-of-the-art 23,000-seat Sports Arena.
  • Advisor to leading US Bank in connection with the Bank’s issuance of a Loan and Credit Facility to the TPC Network, an affiliate of the PGA TOUR, to refinance the TPC’s portfolio of Championship Golf Course Properties.
  • Advisor to the Duke University Endowment Fund on various Fund-to-Fund Investments.
  • Advisor to numerous governmental entities on a wide variety of transactions, including: (i) serving as Bond Counsel or Issuer’s Counsel on tax-exempt revenue and general obligation bonds used to finance governmental buildings, container crane facilities, and private sector manufacturing facilities and urban redevelopment projects.
  • Serving as counsel to numerous Hospital and Medical Boards in connection with bond financing’s
  • Setting up a US-based investment sponsor’s corporate organizational structure in Asia with a series of tiered offshore wholly owned BVI and Hong Kong subsidiaries.
  • Developing several foreign exchange strategies for the cross-border movement of RMB-denominated funds and their conversion into USD-denominated funds.
  • Negotiating and drafting a Joint Venture and Collaboration Agreement between a US-based private equity fund, Jones Lang LaSalle China, and the Grand China Fund (the first PRC government-sanctioned real estate-focused investment fund).
  • Advisor to the Asia Pacific Real Estate Association (APREA) in connection with its entering into a Collaboration Agreement with Cambridge Associates, LLC, Cambridge, MA (USA) to develop an Asian centric proprietary database of performance data and other information on Asian-based private equity and venture capital funds, including certain indices and benchmark statistics.
  • Advisor to a Hong Kong-based mining company in connection with structuring and entering into a joint mining & operating agreement with a mine owner in the Philippines and Indonesia for iron ore and coal, and a distribution and shipping agreement for the sale of the ore and coal in China.
  • Advisor to Limitless/Dubai World (along with Jones Lang LaSalle China) to recapitalize the Asian Portfolio to raise funds to restructure Dubai World’s debt through an innovative build-to-transfer financing model involving Chinese state-owned construction Companies.
  • Advisor to Netherlands-based company in its efforts to build a chain of European-style garden centers in the People’s Republic of China.
  • Advisor to Subic Neocove Corporation, a subsidiary of the Heung-A Property Group of Korea, for the development and financing of its 500-hectare resort development project in Subic Bay, Philippines.
  • Advisor to Iho Land, a Korean developer, in connection with its $250 million USD financing of a resort development on Jeju Island, Korea.
  • Advisor to Beijing Donia Resources Co. Ltd. in connection with its investment in an iron ore mine in Goa, India.

Mr. Markoff earned his J.D. from Washington University in St. Luis School of Law. He earned his A.B. in Public Policy and Political Science from Duke University.

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