Carey Smith is a Senior Counsel with the law firm of Arnold & Porter. He practices in the real estate and tax practice groups, covering a broad range of transactional and tax issues for clients primarily in the commercial real estate business. His focus is negotiating and documenting transactions for equity investments in real estate, including single-asset joint ventures, programmatic and platform joint ventures, and real estate funds. He handles the panoply of issues related to equity transactions, such as buy/sells, forced sales and other exit provisions, required capital and dilution, major decisions and dispute resolution, tax efficient planning and the crystallization of promotes. He represents all participants in joint ventures, from sponsors, developers and managers to institutional investors and family offices.
Carey has broad experience in complex real estate transactions, such as acquisitions and dispositions, debt financing, and local and federal tax incentives. He regularly advises clients on structuring investments to comply with the federal Opportunity Zone program. He also has experience in the tax and transactional issues involved in debt restructuring, recapitalization, and other distressed asset situations. Carey handles U.S. federal income tax planning for all types of business entities, particularly partnerships and limited liability companies. Due to the proliferation of incentive arrangements that use partnership interests or similar equity plans (also known as "profits interests" or "carried interests"), Carey has developed a wide range of experience in executive compensation matters.
Carey is a graduate of Amherst College and Yale Law School.
