Jonathan Birks
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
Kirkland & Ellis International LLP
Client SatisfactionCo-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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Key clients
- LaSalle Investment Management
- Brookfield
- TPG Real Estate
- GIC
- GLP / GCP
- Blackstone
- Node
- KKR
- Capital & Regional PLC
- P3
- Kennedy Wilson
- Hudson Pacific Properties
- Greystar
Work highlights
- 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.
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Kazik Michalski
Kirkland & Ellis International LLPPractice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Jonathan Birks, Kazik Michalski