Real Estate, Gaming & Leisure
Real Estate, Gaming & Leisure Group
Serving clients in real estate, gaming, lodging, and leisure.
Stifel provides a range of advisory and capital raising services to companies across numerous sectors, including gaming, lodging, leisure, Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), Real Estate Operating Companies (REOCs), and U.K. Investment Funds with extensive experience in public underwriting of common stock, preferred stock, convertible securities, hybrid securities, and debt securities. The Group also performs financial advisory services, offering valuation, negotiation and execution expertise on mergers & acquisitions as well as providing fairness opinions and corporate structuring advice.
Areas of Expertise
Gaming & Leisure
The Gaming, Lodging & Leisure Investment Banking Group provides a range of advisory and capital-raising services to leading public and private companies and institutional investors across numerous sectors. The Group offers its domestic and international clients advice and execution on mergers & acquisitions, capital raising (public and private equity, leveraged loans, high-yield debt, mezzanine financing), restructurings, and other financial advisory services, including fairness opinions. Areas of expertise include:
- Online Gaming Operators and Technology Providers
- Sports Betting Operators and Technology Providers
- Brick-and-Mortar Casino Operators
- Gaming and Entertainment REITs
- Slot and Floor Equipment Manufacturers
- Digital and Traditional Lottery Companies
- Native American Gaming
- Hotels, Resorts, and other Lodging Companies
- Cruise Lines, Sports Clubs, Ski Resorts, Amusement Parks, and other Leisure Companies
Investment Funds
Stifel’s U.K. Investment Funds team implement long-term equity-issuance growth strategies and secondary market promotional activities. Stifel is a leading corporate finance adviser to more than 20 retained investment funds clients with an average market cap of over £500 million, with a leading track record for primary fundraising, through IPOs, follow-on raises, and regular issuance.
Our Investment Fund trading desk and accompanying leading automated retail electronic trading desk have extensive relationships across institutional investors, private wealth managers, and execution-only platforms.
Real Estate
The Real Estate Investment Banking Group provides advisory and capital-raising services to Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and Real Estate Operating Companies (REOCs). Our professionals have extensive experience in public underwriting of common stock, preferred stock, convertible securities, hybrid securities, and debt securities. Additionally, the Group engages in private financing activities, including initiating, structuring, and negotiating joint ventures, entity-level private placements, and Rule 144A private placements. The Group also performs financial advisory services, offering valuation, negotiation and execution expertise on mergers & acquisitions as well as providing fairness opinions and corporate structuring advice to management teams and Boards of Directors.
A leading partner in the gaming and real estate industries.
Get in touch with StifelNotable Transactions

€ 1,320,000,000
Joint Bookrunner/Joint Lead Financial Advisor

$ 94,500,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 1,200,000,000
Advisor to Seller

$ 300,000,000
Advisor to Selina Hospitality PLC

$ 172,800,000
Joint Bookrunner

£ 100,000,000
Sole Financial Advisor Sole Placement Agent

Advisor to Seller

$ 300,000,000
Financial Advisor & Sole Placement Agent

$ 45,209,375
Joint Bookrunner

$ 189,400,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 918,800,000
Advisor to Seller

$ 181,800,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 480,000,000
Exclusive Financial Advisor

£ 300,000,000
Sole Sponsor, Financial Adviser, Global Coordinator, Bookrunner

$ 390,320,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 200,300,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 72,250,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 350,000,000
Exclusive Financial Advisor & Capital Markets Advisor

£ 200,000,000
Sole Bookrunner and Financial Adviser

$ 400,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

€ 500,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 800,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

£ 125,000,000
Joint Bookrunner and Financial Adviser

$ 42,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

Advisor to 888 Holdings

$ 100,000,000
Left Bookrunner

$ 400,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

£ 300,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 49,840,000
Joint Bookrunner

C$ 175,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

Joint Bookrunner

$ 177,023,991
Joint Bookrunner

$ 99,750,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 700,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 599,050,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 641,600,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 500,000,000
Joint Lead Manager

$ 1,300,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 210,000,000
Sole Placement Agent

$ 93,987,050
Left Bookrunner

$ 333,500,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 55,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 700,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

€ 200,000,000
Sole Bookrunner

$ 192,300,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 982,100,000
Co-Manager

$ 1,736,000,000
Co-Manager

$ 225,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 18,100,000
Financial Advisor

$ 45,500,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 702,000,000
Co-Manager

$ 575,900,000
Co-Manager

$ 675,495,000
Co-Manager

$ 4,197,042,009
Advisor to Seller

€ 185,000,000
Joint Bookrunner

€ 139,800,000
Sole Bookrunner

$ 137,700,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 696,600,000
Joint Bookrunner

$ 2,500,000,000
Co-Manager

€ 76,939,644
Sole Bookrunner

€ 65,324,044
Sole Bookrunner

€ 80,000,000
Sole Bookrunner

€ 138,750,000
Sole Bookrunner

$ 42,500,000
Sole Bookrunner