Joseph Baldwin is a partner in the Investment Funds Group at Kirkland & Ellis LLP where he focuses his practice on advising private fund sponsors on structuring, negotiating and forming investment vehicles and their management companies, particularly in the real assets sector. Joseph has represented numerous global real estate and other private equity fund sponsors in establishing open-end and closed-end investment funds, vehicles and other accounts, including programmatic joint ventures, co-investment programs and club deals, with a broad range of investment strategies. In addition to capital formation, Joseph also advises sponsors in connection with GP-led transactions (roll-ups, etc.), GP stake transactions, seed capital and anchor investor arrangements, among other significant matters and transactions.
Joseph’s representative clients include AJ Capital Partners, CapRock Partners, Coastal Ridge, Osso Capital, Redcar, SER Capital, Starwood Capital Group and Tract Capital.