Heath focuses his practice on the representation of real estate-based companies, including public nonlisted and listed REITs, private REITs, and private real estate funds on securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures.
Heath advises clients on corporate governance, audit, and special committee matters; general securities law compliance; and fund formation and organization, including real estate, private equity, and hedge funds.
Additionally, Heath currently serves as chair-elect of the Compliance and Due Diligence Committee of the Institute for Portfolio Alternatives, and is also active in NAREIT and ADISA. Heath also regularly presents on REIT and securities law topics at their conferences.

Representative Matters
• Represented Steadfast Apartment REIT, Inc., a non-traded public REIT, in connection with its $7 billion merger with Independence Realty Trust, Inc. (NYSE: IRT)
• Represented a software and services focused private equity firm in its sale of a portfolio retail company.
• Represented Steadfast Apartment REIT, Inc. in its acquisitions of Steadfast Income REIT, Inc. and Steadfast Apartment REIT III, Inc., with a $3.3 billion resulting company.
• Issuer counsel to numerous public, non-listed REITs’ initial public and follow-on offerings totaling over $10 billion.
• Counsel to numerous perpetual life, NAV REITs in their private offerings to invest in various real estate classes, including but not limited to multifamily and wireless assets.
• Counsel to numerous closed-end REITs in their private offerings to invest in data center assets, wireless infrastructure assets, and multifamily assets.

• Counsel to various closed-end and open-end private real estate funds in their private offerings to invest in various asset classes.
• Counsel to an Opportunity Zone Fund in connection with its $50 million private offering to invest in qualifying opportunity zone investments.
• Counsel to a Delaware Statutory Trust in connection with its private offering to facilitate Section 1031 transactions.
• Counsel to a private venture capital fund in connection with its private offering to acquire certain portfolio investments.