Mr. Gross focuses on all aspects of corporate finance, including the formation of public and private investment and operating entities, capital formation transactions (public offerings and private placements of securities, joint venture transactions, private equity and venture capital investments); mergers and acquisitions; financings and the development of financial products. Mr. Gross advises boards of directors, including with respect to accounting irregularities and financial fraud. Mr. Gross has worked extensively with REITs and other real estate entities.

• Represented CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. in connection with its formation and initial public offering, as well as its subsequent public and private equity and debt financings and mergers and acquisitions, including CBL’s acquisition of the $1.4 billion Richard Jacobs property portfolio. Mr. Gross also represented CBL in its formation of an $800 million joint venture with Galileo Shopping America Trust, a publicly-owned Australian property trust, to acquire CBL’s non-mall shopping centers. CBL is today one of the largest shopping center owners in the United States.
  
  
• Represented American Campus Communities, Inc. in connection with its formation and initial public offering. ACC was the first publicly-traded REIT focused on the ownership and operation of student housing properties.
  
  
• Represented Goldman Sachs in connection with a broad array of real estate securities underwritings (Spieker Properties equity offerings, TrizecHahn "Yankee" bond offering; Strategic Hotel Capital and Entertainment Properties Trust IPOs, PRISA (Prudential Property Investment Separate Account) and Prime Property Fund Rule 144A debt offerings.)
  
  
• Represented Bear, Stearns & Co., Inc. in connection with a broad array of real estate securities underwritings [Crescent Real Estate Equities and Lexington Corporate Properties Trust secondary offerings; Canyon Ranch Regulation D offering and merger and acquisition advisory engagements (advisor in Brandywine’s acquisition of the Rubenstein Company.)]
  
  
• Represented the partners of Cowen & Co. in connection with the $540 million sale of the securities brokerage firm to Société Générale. He represented the Balducci family in the sale of Balduccis to Sutton Place Gourmet. Mr. Gross represented Trizec, a Canadian owner of U.S. real estate assets, in its public merger with Horsham Corporation. He represented Learjet Corporation in its sale to an affiliate of Bombardier of Canada. He also represented Shearson in the sale of its $17 billion mortgage loan servicing portfolio to GE Capital Mortgage Securities Inc., an affiliate of General Electric Capital Corporation. Mr. Gross represented Robert Maxwell in his $240 million public offering of shares in Scitex Corporation, Ltd., a NYSE-traded Israeli technology company, and represented a consortium of U.S. and foreign banks in their debt rescheduling agreement with Elscint Limited, a publicly-traded Israeli technology company.