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Tamar Katz

Tamar Katz is a third-year student at Columbia Law School and is interested in the intersection of private equity and antitrust in the healthcare sector. At Columbia, Tamar is an Articles Editor of the Columbia Business Law Review. She has also worked in antitrust enforcement at both the New York Attorney General’s Office and the Federal Trade Commission. Prior to law school, she worked in the Real Estate Investment Banking Division of Citi. Tamar holds a B.B.A. summa cum laude in Finance and a B.A. summa cum laude in Middle Eastern Studies from UMass Amherst.

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The Role of Public REITs in Financialization and Industry Restructuring

Paper Working Paper Series | By Rosemary Batt, Eileen Appelbaum, and Tamar Katz | Jul 2022

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) are considered “passive” investors and are exempt from corporate tax. But in reality, they play a very active role in reshaping whole industries, like healthcare.