Alexander J. Park

• Advising lodging, hospitality and timeshare industry clients on various business and legal matters related to the coronavirus outbreak.
• Represented Wyndham Destination in its spinoff of Wyndham Hotels and Resorts.
• Represented Hilton Grand Vacations in an underwritten selling stockholder offering by HNA of its $1.1 billion equity ownership; in a joint venture transaction with Blackstone related to the Elara property in Las Vegas; and in its spinoff from Hilton Worldwide in a $9 billion reorganization transaction.
• Represented a publicly traded real estate and finance company in various corporate governance and internal investigation matters.
• Represented a designer and manufacturer of rugged servers for military, aerospace, and industrial application in its sale to a publicly traded provider of defense and commercial electronics.
• Represented an online advertising company in several series of venture capital financings with an aggregate value of more than $100 million.
• Represented a biotech company in seed and convertible notes financings.
• Represented a medical mobile application developer and health care provider in early convertibles notes financing.
• Represented an impact/CSR startup manufacturer of consumer goods in performance aligned preferred stock financing.
• Represented a computer- and mobile-based education and training design and development startup company in its acquisitions of the distressed assets of a distributed learning company and a computer-based security screening training company.
• Represented a group of limited partners in the sale of a publicly traded office REIT and its related operating partnership in an UPREIT merger transaction.
• Represented a publicly traded student housing REIT in its sale to a real estate private equity firm.
• Represented the second-largest U.S. apartment REIT in its $22.2 billion sale to a joint venture between a large, New York based, private real estate company and a bulge bracket investment bank.

Alex Park, partner in Alston & Bird’s Corporate & Business Transactions Group, is passionate about understanding his clients’ business needs, goals, and objectives, as well as constraints, so that he can offer customized advice and solutions. He prides himself on serving as the quarterback of any engagement and working with a larger, collaborative team of lawyers across all disciplines to provide integrated, comprehensive service to his clients. Alex thrives in handling complex issues that require careful analysis and a full understanding of potential implications.

For more than 20 years, Alex has advised public and private companies and virtually all Wall Street investment banks on corporate, securities, M&A, capital markets, venture capital/early-stage, spin-off, reorganization, and partnership transactions, with particular focus on advising REITs, hospitality/lodging/timeshare companies, commercial real estate companies, technology-focused companies, governmental contractors, and IT companies. He has served as counsel to more than 30 publicly traded REITs and hospitality, lodging, timeshare, technology, and related companies, as well as all major investment banks, in connection with more than 100 public and private capital market transactions. 

He also regularly advises his clients on various securities law and governance matters, including financial restatements, internal investigations, special committees, and other unique situations.

In 2018, Alex received NYU School of Law’s inaugural Grunin Prize for Law and Social Entrepreneurship for development of a new equity investment structure.

Bar Admissions

• Maryland
• District of Columbia

Education

• The George Washington University (J.D., 1996)
• The George Washington University (B.A.A., 1993)