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Tae Ho Cho (He/Him)

Tae Ho Cho (He/Him)

Counsel

Counsel
Tae Ho Cho (He/Him)

Tae Ho Cho's practice focuses primarily on public and private capital markets and other corporate finance and general corporate transactions in the real estate/REITs, specialty finance and exchange-traded products sectors. Tae Ho also works extensively with sponsors in the non-traded sector, including formation and capital raising transactions. He also acts as corporate and SEC counsel to certain of his public company clients.

Non-Traded Products

  • Apollo Global Management, as sponsor, in the formation and a continuous IPO of up to $5 billion in common shares of Apollo Realty Income Solutions, Inc., a non-traded REIT.
  • CNL Financial Group in the formation, concurrent private offering and a continuous IPO of up to $1.1 billion in common shares of CNL Strategic Capital, LLC, a non-traded company involving non-real estate assets.

Exchange Traded Products

  • A global asset manager in the formation and ongoing representation of its physical commodity and bitcoin ETFs.
  • GSAM in the acquisition of the sponsorship interest in the Perth Physical Gold ETF, now known as the Goldman Sachs Physical Gold ETF.

Common Stock and Preferred Stock Offerings

  • BofA Securities, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, RBC and other Underwriters in numerous Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE) public offerings of $9.1 billion in the aggregate of common stock.
  • Morgan Stanley, Wells Fargo and other Underwriters in numerous KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. (NYSE: KREF) public offerings of $372.9 million in the aggregate of common stock.
  • Raymond James and KKR Capital Markets LLC in numerous KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. (NYSE: KREF) public offerings of $306.5 million in the aggregate of preferred stock.
  • Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (NYSE: HASI) in numerous public offerings of $532.4 million in the aggregate of common stock.

Debt Offerings and Liability Management

  • Apollo Commercial Real Estate Finance (NYSE: ARI) in its senior secured notes offering of $500 million (Rule 144A/Reg S).
  • BofA Securities, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, RBC and other Underwriters in numerous Alexandria Real Estate Equities, Inc. (NYSE: ARE) public offerings of $12.5 billion in the aggregate of senior notes.
  • Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (NYSE: HASI) in numerous public offerings of $1.3 billion in the aggregate of senior notes of its subsidiaries.

Convertible Notes Offerings:

  • Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (NYSE: HASI) in two public offerings of $294 million in the aggregate of convertible senior notes.

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Career and qualifications

  • Harvard University (A.B. in Economics) 2007
  • Seoul National University (M.A. in International Commerce) 2011
  • New York University School of Law (J.D., cum laude) 2014
  • Joined Clifford Chance 2014
  • Admitted as an Attorney-at-Law in New York 2015