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Morrison & Foerster represented underwriters in connection with the $400 million bond offering of 2.900% Senior Notes due 2033 by Corporate Office Properties, L.P. (“COPLP”). The notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Corporate Office Properties Trust, the sole general partner of COPLP. The senior notes offering settled on November 17, 2021.

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Morrison & Foerster represented underwriters in connection with the $400 million bond offering of 2.900% Senior Notes due 2033 by Corporate Office Properties, L.P. (“COPLP”). The notes are fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Corporate Office Properties Trust, the sole general partner of COPLP. The senior notes offering settled on November 17, 2021.Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, BofA Securities, Inc., Citigroup Global Markets Inc., PNC Capital Markets LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Regions Securities LLC and TD Securities (USA) LLC acted as joint book-running managers for the offering and Capital One Securities, Inc., KeyBanc Capital Markets Inc., M&T Securities, Inc. and U.S. Bancorp Investments, Inc. acted as co-managers for the offering.The MoFo team, led by New York partner Larry Medvinsky, included New York associates Dylan Naughton, Vonnie Nam and Hannah Yang; San Diego tax partner Shane Shelly and tax associate Kristie Espiritu; and New York tax associate Philip Jaworskyj.

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Larry Medvinsky is widely recognized as a creative, commercially focused attorney who guides clients through complex transactions.Larry serves as co-chair of Morrison Foerster’s REITs practice group and has nearly 30 years of experience advising boards of directors, public and private companies, and executive management teams on a broad range of corporate transactions. His practice focuses on representing issuers and underwriters, particularly in the REIT and Specialty Finance spaces, in IPOs and securities offerings, private equity and other sponsors in the raising of capital for funds, private REITs, and permanent capital vehicles and other private companies in transactions such as mergers and acquisitions (including UPREIT and DownREIT, and real estate acquisitions), joint ventures, dispositions, and other exit transactions, among others.Larry has been ranked in Chambers USA and Legal 500 USA since 2009 for his work in the REIT Capital Markets. Prior to joining the firm, he was a partner at another international law firm in New York.Larry is a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (Nareit) and Urban Land Institute. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the University of Florida Foundation since 2019.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><h5>IPOs and Equity and Debt Capital Markets</h5><ul><li>Represented Endurance Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: EDNCU) in its $200 million initial public offering.</li><li>Represented Empire State Realty Trust, owner of the iconic Empire State Building, on its $1 billion NYSE listed IPO representing one of the largest REIT IPOs in US history, including utilizing a unique first of its kind voting security that allowed sponsors to effectively vote their OP Units and the listing of three classes of OP Units on NYSE ARCA. The proxy solicitation (including a hostile, very publicized public proxy fight) and consolidation of over 30 entities (including the public roll-up of three entities) to form Empire Realty Trust.</li><li>Represented Issuers/Underwriters in general board representations, governance and ESG matters, general corporate matters and a variety of common, preferred, convertible preferred, debt, convertible debt, forward purchases, unit investment trust and trust preferred offerings for over 40 public REITs, Real Estate Operating Companies, BDCs and other investment companies.</li></ul><h5>Platform Creations/Capital Raises</h5><ul><li>Represented Cantor Fitzgerald in a strategic joint venture with Silverstein Properties to pursue opportunity zone acquisitions and fund formations including representing Cantor Silverstein Opportunity Zone Fund Trust, LLC, an opportunity zone fund that qualifies as a REIT, in its formation, multiple private fund raising rounds and various acquisitions.</li><li>Represented CNL Financial Group, a private investment management firm in connection with a strategic joint venture with Levine Partners to form CNL Strategic Opportunities Partners, LLC a vehicle intended to acquire controlling equity interests and debt interests in middle market operating companies; the IPO of CNL Strategic in a continuous registered non-traded offering; several concurrent private offerings; and the acquisition of interests in certain companies.</li><li>Represented several sponsors in a variety of fund formations and continuing structuring and investment activities for such funds, including Colony Capital, UBS Capital Americas, Prudential Real Estate, Glenmont Realty, Conventus Mortgage, CBRE Global, Lend Lease, Resource Capital and Antarctica Capital.</li></ul><h5>Strategic Joint Ventures</h5><ul><li>Represented China Merchant Bank and China Life Insurance in its strategic joint venture with a Site Center Corp.</li><li>Represented Antarctica Capital, LLC, a global investment manager, in connection with a strategic joint venture with TIAA to act as the managing member and investment manager for a consortium of funds that acquired a portfolio of parking assets.</li></ul><h5>Mergers and Acquisitions</h5><ul><li>Represented Keystone Property Trust in its public sale to Eaton Vance, ASR in its public sale to UDR, Gramercy Property Trust in its public acquisition of American Financial Realty and SL Green in its public acquisition of Reckson Realty.</li></ul>*Includes prior firm experience

Larry P. Medvinsky

Partner

Vonnie Nam is a corporate associate in the firm's New York office.Vonnie has experience in corporate and securities transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, securities offerings and general corporate governance matters. Before joining Morrison & Foerster’s Corporate Department, Vonnie was a summer associate in the New York office.Vonnie earned her J.D. from the New York University School of Law, where she was a member of the Business Law Transactions Clinic. She holds a B.S. in Media, Culture, and Communications, cum laude, from New York University.<h4>Representative Experience</h4><ul><li>Honey Birdette, the fast-growing, luxury lingerie and lifestyle brand, and its sellers, in the USD333 million sale to PLBY Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: PLBY), a leading pleasure and leisure lifestyle company and owner of Playboy.</li></ul>

Vonnie Nam

Associate

Hannah Yang is a corporate associate in the New York office.Hannah represents publicly and privately held companies in a variety of corporate and securities law matters. She advises on domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions in various industries. She also represents issuers and underwriters in connection with securities regulation, governance matters, and securities offerings, including initial public offerings, private securities offerings under Rule 144A, and debt and equity offerings.Hannah earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was awarded the White & Case Award in Law & Social Entrepreneurship. While there, she served as the Articles Editor for the NYU Environmental Law Journal and as a research assistant at the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship.

Hannah Yang

Shane is a partner in the Federal Tax Group and is based in Morrison Foerster’s San Diego office. He has a comprehensive tax practice with a focus on U.S. federal income tax matters. Shane provides sought-after counseling on the tax aspects of most business transactions, including M&A, fund formations, joint ventures, spin-offs and divestitures, international structuring, capital markets offerings and venture capital investments. He has developed a unique expertise in a variety of complex tax areas, including REITs and real estate, renewable energy and financial products. He counsels his REIT and real estate clients regarding tax compliance and structuring in connection with their significant offerings, M&A transactions, U.S. and non-U.S. fund formations and joint ventures, property contributions, like-kind exchanges and other transactions. He advises clients in the renewable energy sector with respect to tax matters through all phases of project development, including project M&A, “beginning of construction” issues, tax equity structuring matters and the monetization of tax benefits.  Clients have described Shane as “one of the brightest tax minds” they have ever worked with, having “the rare ability to simultaneously think like a tax expert and a business leader.” Shane serves as chair of the REIT and Real Estate Tax Group at Morrison Foerster, is Chambers ranked in the area of REITs and Tax and is recommended by Legal 500, Taxes, Non-Contentious and International. He is the author or co-author of a number of articles, including the Taxation of REITs and Shareholders, Federal Income Tax Considerations in Going Private Transactions, and Tax Considerations for Venture Capital and Technology-Related Start-Ups in PLI’s Tax Practice Series. He speaks and lectures regularly on a variety of tax topics. Shane is an adjunct professor at USD School of Law, where he teaches Partnership Taxation and the Taxation of REITs and Related Real Estate Transactions. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.Shane is an active participant in both the Morrison Foerster and local communities, serving on the firm’s Women’s Strategy Committee, Board of Directors and Partnership Review Committee, as well as the Boards of the La Jolla Playhouse and the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program.Among his interests, Shane loves surfing with his children and beating them at chess.

Shane M. Shelley

Kristie Espiritu is a tax associate in the San Diego office of Morrison Foerster.Kristie’s experience spans a wide range of transactional, structuring, and advisory tax matters affecting domestic businesses. She regularly advises clients on their tax issues in the areas of joint ventures, partnerships, real estate investment trusts, renewable energy, mergers and acquisitions, and tax- exempt organizations.Kristie is an adjunct professor at USD School of Law, where she teaches classes on partnership tax.

Kristie Espiritu

Phil advises clients on U.S. federal income tax considerations in connection with domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations, capital markets transactions, derivatives, and other financial products. He regularly represents clients in a wide variety of industries, including foreign and domestic banks, financial institutions, technology and Fintech companies, investment funds, and companies in the consumer and hospitality industries.Phil’s practice also includes advising on all U.S. federal income tax aspects of formation, ongoing operations, and compliance matters for public and private REITs and real estate funds, private equity funds, and joint ventures. This broad experience allows him to provide commercially minded advice and deliver practical solutions to the firm’s clients. In addition to transactional tax matters, Phil enjoys helping clients navigate and successfully resolve administrative matters with the IRS, as well as complex tax controversies. Phil regularly contributes to MoFo’s pro bono and community engagement initiatives, including education policy and advocacy matters.

Philip Jaworskyj

Capital Markets