Bauman & Company

Founded in 1997 as Wells Real Estate Investment Trust, Piedmont Office Realty Trust specializes in the acquisition and development of industrial and commercial properties. The company is one of the largest publicly registered real estate investment trusts in the United States. It has acquired more than $5 billion and sold over $1 billion of office and industrial properties. Piedmont Office Realty Trust owns and manages properties in Los Angeles, Boston and Chicago.

Headquartered in Atlanta, Cousins Properties Incorporated has experience in the real estate industry, which includes the development, acquisition, financing, management and leasing of properties. The property types that Cousins invests in include office, multifamily, retail, industrial and land development projects. The company's portfolio consists of interests in 7.5 million square feet of office space, 3.8 million square feet of retail space, 0.4 million square feet of industrial space, more than 10,000 acres of land tracts for sale or future development and significant land holdings for development of single-family residential communities. Cousins offers leasing and management services to third-party investors. Its client-services portfolio comprises 11.9 million square feet of office space. Cousins Properties Incorporated is an integrated equity real estate investment trust that has been public since 1962.