Advising both public and private REITs, the REITs team at Kirkland & Ellis LLP combines its capital markets, tax, real estate, and M&A expertise to advise on a variety of matters. The offers nationwide expertise across key business centres including New York, Chicago, and Houston. Acquisitions involving REITs and securitization of data centers are some of the recent matters handled by the team. The practice has also assisted healthcare REITs and has helped launch new non-traded REITs in the net lease space. Michael Brueck represents buyers and sellers in REIT M&A, while Mike Beinus handles the tax side of REIT transactions. Both aforementioned lawyers are based in New York.
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Key clients
- Brookfield Asset Management, LLC
- Blue Owl Real Estate Capital LLC
- Carlyle Global Credit Investment Management LLC
- Cerberus Credit Management, L.P.
- Cyrus One LP
- Dune Real Estate Partners LP
- Equity Lifestyle Properties, Inc.
- Equity Residential
- Fortress Investment Group
- GLP Capital Partners LP
- Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.
- JLL Income Property Trust
- Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., L.P.
- LaSalle Investment Management
- Safehold Inc. Special Committee
- Scalar, LLC
- Starwood Capital Global Group, L.P.
- StorageMart
- Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc.
- Ventas, Inc.
Work highlights
- Advised Blue Owl on its acquisition together with GIC of STORE Capital Corporation in a transaction valued at approximately $15 billion.
- Advised the special committee of the board of Safehold Inc. on Safehold’s $6.4 billion tax-free, strategic combination with its controlling shareholder iStar Inc.
- Represented CyrusOne in a $701 million asset-backed securitization of a portfolio of data centers located in Virginia and Texas.
Lawyers
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Michael Brueck, Mike Beinus