Baker Donelson Advises SmartStop Self Storage, Inc. in $1.4 Billion Merger
The law firm of Baker Donelson Bearman Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC represented SmartStop Self Storage, a public non-traded self storage real estate investment trust (REIT), in its merger with Extra Space, a NYSE listed self storage REIT.
The $1.4 billion transaction includes a sale of approximately $100 million of assets to an affiliated entity.
The Baker Donelson team representing SmartStop included shareholders Richard F. Mattern, Sam Chafetz and Kristine L. Roberts, and associates Marc J. Adesso, Robert C. McCauley Williams and Andrew T. Yonchak, all from the firm’s Memphis office; shareholder Lori B. Metrock and associate Taylor K. Wirth of the firm’s Nashville office; shareholder Thomas J. Mahoney Jr. and of counsel Andrea Bailey Powers of the irm’s Birmingham office; and shareholder Clint Crosby of the firm’s Atlanta office.