Daniel B. Honeycutt

Daniel Honeycutt is a Partner in the Firm’s Registered Funds Practice. Based in the Firm’s Washington, D.C. office, he provides creative and sophisticated counsel to a diverse array of companies in the financial services and real estate industries, with extensive experience advising REITs on a wide range of formation and transactional matters. Daniel guides clients through complex public and private capital raising matters, including initial public and private offerings and follow-on offerings, as well as significant preferred stock and debt offerings. His work spans the full spectrum of REIT-related sectors, including multifamily, industrial, net lease, seniors housing, self-storage, retail, healthcare and office properties. He also provides commercial, practical advice to clients on strategic deals including mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs and internalizations transactions.

Experience includes representing:

• Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc., a non-traded, diversified equity REIT, in its continuous public offering, including a $4.5 billion investment by UC Investments
• North Haven NET REIT, a NAV-based net lease equity REIT sponsored by Morgan Stanley, in its initial private offering and registration under the Exchange Act
• Starwood Credit Real Estate Income Trust, a NAV-based mortgage REIT, in its initial private offering and registration under the Exchange Act
• BGO Industrial Real Estate Income Trust, Inc., a NAV-based, industrial equity REIT, in its $5 billion initial public offering
• The Ground Lease REIT, Inc., a life-cycle equity REIT sponsored by Montgomery Streety Partners in its initial private offering, including investments by certain strategic anchor investors
• Principal Credit Real Estate Income Trust, a NAV-based mortgage REIT, in its initial private offering and registration under the Exchange Act
• New Mountain Net Lease Trust, a NAV-based, net lease equity REIT, in its strategic recapitalization, initial private offering and registration under the Exchange Act

Experience prior to joining Simpson Thacher includes representing:

• A NYSE-listed, net-lease REIT in its $569 million initial public offering
• Brookfield Real Estate Income Trust, a NAV-based, diversified equity REIT, in its adviser transition and $7.5 billion follow-on offering
• Nuveen Global Cities REIT, a NAV-based, diversified equity REIT, in its $5 billion follow-on offering
• Clients in public equity offerings exceeding $25 billion, USD-denominated debt offerings exceeding $4.5 billion and Euro-denominated debt security offerings exceeding €1.6 billion

Daniel received his J.D. from American University Washington College of Law in 2014 and was co-founder and president of the Washington College of Law Lambda Alumni Association. He received his M.B.A. from Millsaps College in 2011 and his B.B.A. from Millsaps College in 2010, and is a current member of the Advisory Board of the Else School of Management of Millsaps College. Daniel is admitted to practice in Washington, D.C., New York and Massachusetts.