Exhibit 5.1
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12670 High Bluff Drive San Diego, California 92130 Tel: +1.858.523.5400 Fax: +1.858.523.5450 www.lw.com
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| July 20, 2021
Bridge Investment Group Holdings Inc. 111 East Sego Lily Drive, Suite 400 Salt Lake City, Utah 84070 |
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| Re: | Registration Statement on Form S-8 with respect to 11,000,000 shares of Class A common stock, par value $0.01 per share |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We have acted as special counsel to Bridge Investment Group Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), in connection with the preparation and filing by the Company on the date hereof with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) of a Registration Statement (the “Registration Statement”) on Form S–8 under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Act”), relating to the issuance of up to 11,000,000 shares of Class A common stock of the Company, par value $0.01 per share (the “Shares”), which may be issued pursuant to the Company’s 2021 Incentive Award Plan (the “2021 Plan”). This opinion is being furnished in connection with the requirements of Item 601(b)(5) of Regulation S-K under the Act, and no opinion is expressed herein as to any matter pertaining to the contents of the Registration Statement or related prospectus, other than as expressly stated herein with respect to the issuance of the Shares.
As such counsel, we have examined such matters of fact and questions of law as we have considered appropriate for purposes of this letter. With your consent, we have relied upon certificates and other assurances of officers of the Company and others as to factual matters without having independently verified such factual matters. We are opining herein as to the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the “DGCL”), and we express no opinion with respect to any other laws.
Subject to the foregoing and the other matters set forth herein, it is our opinion that, as of the date hereof, when the Shares shall have been duly registered on the books of the transfer agent and registrar therefor in the name or on behalf of the purchasers, and have been issued by the Company for legal consideration in excess of par value in the circumstances contemplated by the 2021 Plan, assuming in each case that the individual issuances, grants or awards under the 2021 Plan are duly authorized by all necessary corporate action and duly issued, granted or awarded and exercised in accordance with the requirements of law and the 2021 Plan (and the agreements duly adopted thereunder and in accordance therewith), the issue and sale of the Shares will have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate action of the Company, and such Shares will be validly issued, fully paid and nonassessable. In rendering the foregoing opinion, we have assumed that the Company will comply with all applicable notice requirements regarding uncertificated shares provided in the DGCL.
