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Adapting to Change: Latest Tax Challenges for REITs

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Morrison Foerster partner Shane Shelley is co-presenting a session at Nareit's REITwise 2025 Conference on March 26 titled...

Morrison Foerster partner Shane Shelley is co-presenting a session at Nareit's REITwise 2025 Conference on March 26 titled “Adapting to Change: Latest Tax Challenges for REITs.” Hear insights from REIT tax and legal experts on the latest technical tax topics affecting REITs. Understand the benefits of investing in renewable energy, including federal and state tax credits, deductions, and financing options. Review real estate development from beginning to end. Understand the tax landscape at every stage, including financing, construction, prohibited transactions, and preparing for potential future tax changes.Nareit's REITwise: 2025 Law, Accounting & Finance Conference® offers legal, accounting, tax, and finance professionals in the REIT and publicly traded real estate industry dedicated networking time, more than 20 educational sessions, and continuing education credits.This educational conference presents a clear picture of current political, economic, and market events that impact legal, financial, tax, and accounting operations within REITs and publicly traded real estate companies.<hr>

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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.

Adapting to Change: Latest Tax Challenges for REITs

26 Mar 2025 11:15 AM - 12:30 PM CDT