David S. Freed

David advises equity and mortgage REITs, investment banks, and private equity sponsors in connection with private placements, IPOs, follow-on offerings, ATM offerings, secondary offerings, Rule 144A offerings, Regulation S offerings, forward equity offerings and consent solicitations, exchange offers, and tender offers.

He advises management teams, boards of directors, real estate fund sponsors, and other owners of real estate with respect to UPREIT and pre-IPO formation transactions, and has substantial experience advising REITs and other public companies with respect to SEC reporting obligations, NYSE and Nasdaq compliance matters, corporate governance matters, and conflict of interest transactions.

David also represents public and private companies in connection with merger and acquisition transactions, asset purchases and sales, joint ventures, and other strategic transactions.

• Represented Creation Investments as a co-lead investor in the Series C Round in AGL Holding.
• Represented Post Brothers Holdings LLC in $10.5 million private placement of 9% Senior Secured Notes due 2029 by Post Brothers Holdings LLC.
• Represented CPPIB Credit Investments Inc. in warrants to purchase up to $51 million of Redwood Trust Inc. Common Stock.
• Represented Post Brothers Holdings LLC in $15 million private placement of 10% Senior Secured Notes due 2026 by Post Brothers Holdings LLC.
• Represented Waypoint Residential, LLC in $63.15 million private placement of 12.5% Senior Secured Notes due 2026 by Waypoint Residential, LLC.
• Represented CBRM Realty Inc. in $60.32 million placement of 12.5% Social Senior Unsecured Notes due 2025 by Crown Capital Holdings LLC.
• Represented Doma Holdings in the sale of certain branches of its West Coast local retail title operations to Williston Financial Group, LLC.
• Represented Waypoint Residential, LLC in the re-opening of 12.5% Senior Secured Notes due 2026, with the issuance of $3 million aggregate principal amount of additional notes in a private placement by Waypoint Residential, LLC.
• Represented Hyatt Hotels Corporation in a $30 million convertible loan.
• Represented CBRM Realty Inc. in Private Placement of $9.1 million of additional issuance of 12.5% Social Senior Unsecured Notes due 2025 by Crown Capital Holdings LLC.
• Represented Post Brothers Holdings LLC in $60.1 million private placement of 9% Senior Secured Notes due 2025 by Post Brothers Holdings LLC.
• Represented CBRM Realty Inc. in $31.5 million placement of 8% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2025 by Crown Capital Holdings LLC.
• Represented CBRM Realty Inc. in $100 million placement of 6.75% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2027 by Crown Capital Holdings LLC.
• Represented Innovatus Capital Partners, LLC in $105 million placement of 6.5% Senior Unsecured Notes due 2027 by SCRE Intermediate Holdco LLC.
• Represented Redfin Corporation in its $135 million acquisition of Bay Equity LLC.
• Represented Lument Finance Trust, Inc. in $60 million offering of 2.4 million Shares of 7.875% Series A Cumulative Redeemable Preferred Stock by Lument Finance Trust, Inc.
• Represented Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. in $175 million of 5.75% Senior Notes due 2026 by Ready Capital Corporation.