Warren Gorrell is Chairman of Hogan & Hartson and a Co-director of the corporate, securities and finance practice group. Warren is active in virtually all corporate, securities, and other financial areas on behalf of many different types of clients, including U.S. and international corporations, partnerships, investment banks, and individuals. Warren is one of a handful of leaders of major law firms who maintains a substantial practice while managing the firm.
Warren's practice, which is primarily transactional, covers several different areas and involves a diverse array of industries. He represents publicly and privately held companies and their controlling shareholders in all aspects of their businesses, including mergers and acquisitions, public securities offerings (including IPOs) and private placements of equity and debt, tender offers and exchange offers, restructurings and recapitalizations, joint ventures, and general business matters. Warren also represents a number of major investment banking firms in connection with domestic and international offerings of both equity and debt securities, including initial public offerings, primary and secondary offerings (including 144A placements), and corporate restructurings and reorganizations.
For many years, a significant part of Warren's practice has focused primarily on public company M&A and capital markets transactions, many of which have been in the real estate industry and related businesses. He has been the partner principally responsible for the major M&A and capital markets transactions involving real estate investment trust (REITs) in which numerous public company and investment banking clients have been involved.
Representative Experience
Representation of Archstone-Smith in its $22.2 billion acquisition by Tishman Speyer and Lehman Brothers; Trizec Properties in its $8.9 billion acquisition by Brookfield Properties and The Blackstone Group; New Plan Excel in its $6.2 billion acquisition by Centro Properties; CarrAmerica in its $5.6 billion acquisition by The Blackstone Group; Lehman Brothers/ ING Clarion in their $2.8 billion acquisition of Gables Residential; GE in its $2.2 billion acquisition of Trustreet Properties; Trizec Properties in its participation with GE in the $3.8 billion acquisition of Arden Realty; and other going private transactions.
Representation of Equity Office Properties Trust in its $7.2 billion stock-for-stock acquisition of Spieker Properties, Inc.; its $4.6 billion stock-for-stock acquisition of Cornerstone Properties, Inc.; and its $3.2 billion stock-for-stock acquisition of Beacon Properties Corporation.
Representation of Host Hotels & Resorts in its conversion to a REIT and concurrent $4 billion public and private acquisitions of hotel portfolios from The Blackstone Group and several Host sponsored partnerships.
Representation of the underwriters (Lehman Brothers, Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, FBR, and others) in the IPOs of CarrAmerica, The Mills, Crescent, Arden, Heritage, Extra Space, Post, and others.
Representation of the companies in the IPOs of Equity Office, Charles E. Smith Residential, Colonial, U-Store-It, Paragon, Republic, ElderTrust, Falcon, Fieldstone, and others.
Representation of Havas (France) in its $2.1 billion cash acquisition of Snyder Communications, Inc.