DLA Piper advises Harrison Street in sale of US Student Housing Portfolio

DLA Piper represented Harrison Street, a leading investment management firm focused on alternative real assets, in the sale of a student housing portfolio.

The portfolio included 14 purpose-built off-campus student housing communities across 11 states located near leading universities.

“It was a pleasure to advise Harrison Street on the sale of its complex portfolio of student housing assets. This deal is a testament to our team’s capabilities in providing a dynamic, integrated service to our clients on transactions of this scope and magnitude,” said Adam Berkoff, the DLA Piper partner who led the deal team.

The DLA Piper team was led by partner Adam Berkoff and associate Tori Campbell (both Chicago).

With approximately 200 real estate lawyers in the US and 500 globally, DLA Piper's market-leading Real Estate practice offers a full range of real estate services, including acquisitions and sales, single asset, programmatic and operating company joint ventures, real estate fund formation, public and private REITs, financing, zoning and development, construction and design, leasing and restructuring and workouts. The firm executes hundreds of transactions every year, ranging from billon-dollar-plus transactions to the acquisition, financing, joint venture formation, leasing and sale of individual properties.