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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Offices

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NEW YORK, NY 10006
NEW YORK
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Ms Kimberly Blacklow

Position
Kimberly Brown Blacklow is a partner based in the New York office. Ms. Blacklow’s practice focuses on real estate and other asset-based finance transactions as well as structured finance and capital markets transactions in both the U.S. and abroad. Ms. Blacklow has represented both lenders and borrowers in commercial mortgage loan origination, asset-based warehouse lending, credit tenant lease financing and other types of financing transactions. She regularly represents both issuers and underwriters in both public and private securities offerings, including commercial mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations. Ms. Blacklow also has significant real estate acquisition and joint venture experience and has also represented a number of clients in loan acquisitions and participations, including transactions involving distressed assets. Ms. Blacklow is active in providing pro bono services to community-based nonprofit economic development organizations in New York.
Career
Ms. Blacklow joined the firm in 1994 and became a partner in 2003. From the fall of 1999 to 2000 she was resident in the firm’s Tokyo office.
Memberships
Ms. Blacklow is a member of the Bar in New York.
Education
Ms. Blacklow received a J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1994 and an undergraduate degree, cum laude, from Harvard-Radcliffe in 1988.
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: global offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Tax > Financial products
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Finance > Financial services regulation
- Dispute resolution > International litigation
- Tax > International tax
- Finance > Project finance
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Real estate > Real estate finance
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- Finance > Structured finance: derivatives and structured products
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Media, technology and telecoms > Cyber law (including data privacy and data protection)
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Finance > Fintech
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Finance > Project finance
- Dispute resolution > International arbitration
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Real estate > Real estate
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism