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 People’s 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.