Co-chaired by Jonathan Birks and Kazik Michalski, the Kirkland & Ellis International LLP team specialises in advising borrowers in complex CMBS, mezzanine and European transactions. Birks and Peter Chandler – a debt finance partner – recently worked with leading foreign investment management firms in financing five separate pools of offices in Europe, advising on mezzanine financings and CMBS transactions with significant cross-border elements. Michalski’s recent engagements have seen him advising Singaporean sovereign wealth funds and international real estate developers on large acquisition deals for a student accommodation platforms.
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Auszeichnungen

Mandantenzufriedenheit

Kernmandanten

  • LaSalle Investment Management
  • Brookfield
  • TPG Real Estate
  • GIC
  • GLP / GCP
  • Blackstone
  • Node
  • KKR
  • Capital & Regional PLC
  • P3

Highlight-Mandate

Advised GIC and Greystar on two pools of financings as part of their late 2022 acquisition of purpose-built student accommodation platform, StudentRoost, from Brookfield, for circa £3.3 billion.
Represented TPG on a circa £200m “wholeloan” financing sourced from Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies (BREDS) of its “4i” industrial platform, comprising a portfolio of light industrial properties located in the United Kingdom.
Represented Brookfield in the senior (CMBS) and mezzanine financing of the Fedimmo portfolio of office properties in Belgium and Luxembourg.

Anwält*innen

Führende Partner*innen

Die stärksten Partner*innen ihres Praxisbereichs, die eine führende Rolle in signifikanten Mandaten einnehmen und weitreichende Anerkennung unter Wettbewerbern und Mandanten genießen.

Praxisleitung

Jonathan Birks; Kazik Michalski

Weitere Kernanwält*innen

Peter Chandler