JERRY CUMMINS’ practice focuses on securities offerings, corporate matters and funds, with an emphasis on real estate-related transactions, primarily REITs, and real estate funds. He serves as a chair of the firm’s REIT industry team and regularly represents both issuers and underwriters in a variety of public and private debt and equity transactions by REITs, including initial public offerings. He formerly served as a co-chair of the Investment Funds practice in the New York office, which spans REITs, funds, investment advisers and derivatives.
Jerry also works extensively on real estate and other funds. Jerry represents fund managers in fund formation (including club deals and joint venture structures) and seeding and other investments into fund managers, as well as representing institutional investors in their investments into private funds. Jerry has experience in counseling public companies regarding general corporate and securities laws matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, corporate governance matters, filings under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and stock exchange matters. He has worked extensively with equity and mortgage REITs, as well as issuers in other industries. Jerry has completed several complex real estate portfolio transactions involving the issuance of operating partnership units in UPREITs, DownREITs, and roll-ups.
Jerry is ranked among America’s leading lawyers for REITs in USA — Nationwide by Chambers USA (2013–2025), in which a client noted, “[he] has best-of-class knowledge in his field. He has an incredible depth of experience, is thoughtful, diligent and precise” (2025). Legal 500 United States named Jerry to the “Hall of Fame” for Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) (2025), and Jerry was also named a member of BTI Consulting’s Client Service All-Star Team. In addition, he has been recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Capital Markets.