DLA Piper LLP (US) advised W. P. Carey Inc. on an underwritten public offering of €500 million aggregate principal amount of 2.000% Senior Unsecured Notes due January 20, 2023. The offering of the Notes closed on January 21, 2015.

W. P. Carey is a self-managed real estate investment trust and a leading global owner and manager of commercial properties, primarily net leased to companies on a long-term basis. Through its investment management business, the Company also manages a series of non-traded real estate investment trusts.

Christopher Giordano and Jon Venick, each of whom played a significant role in connection with W. P. Carey’s reorganization into a REIT and concurrent acquisition of CPA:15 in September 2012, as well as its subsequent acquisition of CPA:16 – Global in January 2014, led a DLA Piper team that included: Jamie Knox (New York), Bob LeDuc (Minneapolis), Penny Minna (Baltimore), Sanjay Shirodkar (Washington, D.C.), Janessa Griffin (Chicago) and Michael Stout (New York).