Global Net Lease, Inc.

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Thank you. Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining us for GNL's first quarter 2023 earnings call. This call is being webcast in the investor relations section of GNL's website at www.globalnetlease.com. Joining me today on the call to discuss this quarter's results are Jim Nelson, GNL's chief executive officer, and Chris Masterson, GNL's chief financial officer. The following information contains forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, actual results may differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. We refer all of you to our SEC filings, including the Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022, filed on February 23, 2023, and all other filings with the SEC after that date for a more detailed discussion of the risk factors that could cause these differences. Any forward-looking statements provided during this conference call are only made as of the date of this call. As stated in our SEC filings, G&L disclaims any intent or obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements except as required by law. Also, during today's call, we will discuss non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe can be useful in evaluating the company's financial performance. These measures should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute for our financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP. A reconciliation of these measures to the most directly comparable gap measure is available in our earnings release and supplement, which are posted to our website. Please also refer to our earnings release for more information about what we consider to be implied investment grade tenants, a term we will use throughout today's call. I'll now turn the call over to our CEO, Jim Nelson. Jim?

Thanks, Curtis, and thank you to everyone for joining us on today's call. We had a strong start to the year, completing a large accretive acquisition and demonstrating continued strong renewal and expansion leasing activity as we continue to advance our differentiated international and domestic strategy. We've maintained occupancy of 98% across the portfolio and nearly 60% of our long-term leases are with investment grade tenants based on annualized straight line rent. Since the beginning of 2020, approximately 80% of GNL's acquisitions have been industrial or distribution assets, which comprise 55% of our portfolio at the end of the first quarter. We believe our best in class portfolio is well positioned for meaningful capital appreciation and that our dividend provides shareholders a very compelling current yield. In this rising interest rate environment, G&L continues to benefit from predominantly fixed rate debt, which minimizes the impact of rate increases, and a sophisticated hedging program designed to minimize negative impact to our cash flow from foreign exchange instability and a stronger U.S. dollar. In the first quarter, our AFFO was 39.8 million, or 38 cents per share, a decrease from the first quarter of 2022 But on a constant currency basis, when we applied the average monthly currency rates from the first quarter 2022, first quarter revenues would have been up by 3.2 million to 97.5 million. Our AFFO was negatively impacted by the strengthening of the US dollar relative to the Euro and pound compared to the prior year. We think our unique global capabilities, strong balance sheet, and best in class real estate assets continue to support G&L's positive performance. In the first quarter, we leased over 675,000 square feet through seven lease extensions at a positive 4.2% spread over the previous leases. These new leases, which were set to expire soon, now have a weighted average remaining lease term of seven years. The year-to-date renewal and expansion leasing adds $39.6 million of new net straight-line rent over the new lease terms. As these leases were signed during the quarter, our first quarter results do not include the full impact of these renewals. Rather, we believe that the renewed leases for properties the company owns in the U.S., U.K., and Germany and that are leased to investment-grade tenants such as the U.S. government and Capgemini will have a positive long-term impact on our portfolio. Thanks to our leasing efforts, our portfolio only has 2% of leases expiring during the balance of this year with 73% of our leases not expiring until 2028 or later. In January, we completed an over $75 million accretive acquisition of eight properties leased to Boots UK Limited, a subsidiary of Walgreens. As we have discussed, although we are not focusing on retail assets, we were able to acquire these properties, which total over 323,000 square feet and have 11.5 years of lease term remaining at an extremely attractive 10.6% going in cap rate. Walgreens has rated BBB and BAA2 from S&P and Moody's respectively, and we are happy to have their credit in our portfolio at such a favorable cap rate. As always, we will continue to evaluate the acquisitions and dispositions that we believe maximize the value of our portfolio. At quarter end, our 4.6 billion, 317 property portfolio had a weighted average remaining lease term of 7.8 years. Geographically, 236 of our properties are located in the U.S. and Canada, representing 61% of annualized straight line rent revenue. We own 81 properties in the U.K. and Western Europe, which generate 39% of annualized straight line rent. Our portfolio is well diversified with 140 tenants and 52 industries with no single industry representing more than 12% of the whole portfolio and no tenant exceeding 5% of the portfolio based on annual straight line rent. Approximately 95% of our leases feature annual rental increases, which increase the cash rent that is due over time from these leases. Based on straight line rent, Approximately 60.5% of our leases feature fixed rate escalations. 27.1% have escalations that are based on the consumer price index, and 7% have escalations based on other measures. At the end of the first quarter, our assets were composed of 55% industrial and distribution, 40% office, and 5% retail, with 60% of annual straight line rent coming from investment grade or implied investment grade tenants. Our differentiated investment strategy continues to deliver value, and we remain focused on growing our portfolio by acquiring highly dependable single-tenant industrial and distribution properties in North America and Europe. Our successful lease renewals speak to the mission-critical nature of the properties that we own, where the weighted average remaining lease term is nearly eight years. We are well positioned for the future, and I look forward to building on our progress through the rest of the year. With that, I'll turn the call over to Chris to walk through the financial results in more detail before I follow up with some closing remarks. Chris?