Payton E. Windell

Payton Windell regularly represents clients in diverse and sophisticated real estate matters, with a specific focus on joint venture transactions, real estate investment trust (REIT) formation, financings, and portfolio and single-asset acquisitions and dispositions.

Ms. Windell represents investors with respect to real property acquisitions and dispositions and partnership and joint venture investments. She has advised public and private companies in sale and acquisition transactions, including mergers, stock and asset acquisitions, and divestitures.

Ms. Windell’s representations include:

• GIC with respect to its:
  • take-private $15 billion acquisition, in partnership with Oak Street, of STORE Capital
  • take-private $868 million acquisition, in partnership with Centerbridge Partners, of INDUS Realty Trust
  • take-private $4.4 billion acquisition, together with Dream Industrial Real Estate Investment Trust, of Summit Industrial Income REIT
• a sovereign wealth fund with respect to:
  • the formation of a programmatic joint venture to acquire logistics and industrial properties in Brazil
  • its investment in a joint venture to acquire a portfolio of nine real property assets located in Brazil and occupied by a significant retailer in the Brazilian market
  • the formation of a programmatic joint venture involving a REIT formed for the purpose of acquiring ground leases for properties being developed in the office, life sciences, industrial, retail, multi-family and hotel sectors
  • the acquisition of a portfolio of mortgage loans
  • the formation of a programmatic joint venture to create, and invest in, certain loans secured by transportation-advantaged industrial and industrial storage assets
• a senior housing operator in connection with its restructuring
• Jabil Inc. on the divestment of its mobility business to BYD Electronic (International) Company Limited for $2.2 billion
• Honeywell International Inc. in connection with its $1.9 billion acquisition of CAES Systems Holdings LLC