Connor T. Evans

CONNOR EVANS focuses his practice on complex domestic and cross-border real estate transactions, including acquisitions, dispositions, financings, joint ventures, developments, leasing, and workouts involving properties across the United States, Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He advises and represents private equity funds, financial institutions, investment banks, developers, hospitality companies, closely held real estate companies, and public companies across a range of asset classes, including hospitality, sports and entertainment, retail, office, industrial, mixed-use, and multifamily properties. Connor also advises on energy and infrastructure matters, including real estate transactions at major U.S. airports and data center leasing and colocation arrangements for neocloud and hyperscale operations.

In addition to his work in real estate transactions, Connor has represented companies and executives in government investigations and regulatory enforcement actions before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Department of Justice, and state attorneys general, including multi-jurisdictional and cross-border matters. His experience spans the financial services, life sciences, healthcare, and technology sectors, and includes conducting sensitive internal investigations involving whistleblower allegations of corruption and fraud.

Connor earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Miami School of Law, where he served as co-executive editor and senior articles editor of the University of Miami Law Review. He also served as a David P. Catsman Fellow at the Center for Ethics and Public Service and a Fellow at the University of Miami Investor Rights Clinic.

• Tenneco Inc., a portfolio company of funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc., in its sale of Öhlins Racing to Brembo.
• Brand Velocity Group in its acquisition of SCORE® Sports.
• Compactor Rentals of America, LLC, a portfolio company of Kinderhook Industries, LLC, in its acquisition of Tower Compactor Rentals.
• Mas Restaurant Group (MRG), a franchisee of Taco Bell restaurants in the Houston, Texas and Columbus, Ohio metropolitan areas, in the sale of its 43 Ohio locations to Southpaw.
• Spire Inc. in its US$2.48 billion acquisition of the Piedmont Natural Gas’ local distribution company business in Tennessee (pending).
• Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: STWD) in its US$2.2 billion acquisition of Fundamental Income Properties, LLC (pending).
• A fund managed by Macquarie Asset Management in its agreement to acquire a 40% equity interest in Diamond Infrastructure Solutions (Diamond) from Dow Inc. for approximately US$2.4 billion. Diamond provides specialist infrastructure services to Dow and other industrial customers at five Dow manufacturing sites in Texas and Louisiana.