Jonathan Birks

• An ad hoc committee of creditors, including Strategic Value Partners, Cross Ocean and Deutsche Bank, on the successful $2.2 billion restructuring of the Intu SGS Group
• TPG Real Estate on the financing of its Physicus life sciences platform 
• A sovereign wealth fund on the acquisition of a pan-European logistics portfolio for over €3 billion from EQT Exeter
• Ares on the financing of its acquisition of a pan-European portfolio of commercial real estate assets
• Eagle Street Partners on the formation of a joint venture with Harrison Street to acquire and develop a 554-residential-unit multiphase development at East Road in Dublin, Ireland 
• Brookfield:
  
  • on the $1 billion acquisition of Generator Hostels
  • on a series of real estate financings for its Befimmo (Belgium) and Hibernia (Irish) office portfolios, raising approximately €2 billion
  • on the €1.089 billion recommended cash offer for Hibernia REIT 
  • on the all-cash voluntary public takeover offer for Befimmo SA 
  • on the c. €4.7 billion public takeover offer for alstria office REIT-AG
  • on the financing of its acquisition of a portfolio of UK retail parks
  • on the financing for its bid to acquire the £4 billion+ iQ student accommodation portfolio
  • on the financing of its acquisition of a high-end student accommodation campus in Paris
  • on the financing for its c.€430 million acquisition of a portfolio of serviced apartments in the UK and the Netherlands
• Centerbridge and KKR as the lead investors in the c.£2.5 billion restructuring and recapitalization of UK hospital landlord GHG and its acquisition of leading private healthcare operator, BMI Healthcare
• Consortium and KKR on the $15 billion all-cash acquisition of CyrusOne Inc. a premier global data centre REIT
• GLP:
  
  • on the financing of its c.€1 billion acquisition of Goodman Group’s CEE logistics portfolio
  • on the c.€1.1 billion financing of its c.€2.4 billion acquisition of European logistics business IDI Gazeley from Brookfield
• GIC:
  
  • on the acquisition of an Enterprise Value logistics portfolio located in northeast England
  • on the financing for its c.$1 billion joint venture with Equinix Inc. to develop and operate hyperscale data centres in Europe
  • on the financing aspects of its acquisition as part of a consortium of a 55% stake in the real estate assets of AccorHotels for c.€4.4 billion
  • as a lender providing financing to a European real estate fund platform
• PIMCO on the restructuring of the £1.14 billion Diversity Funding CMBS portfolio
• SOF-12 Cambridge BidCo Limited, owned by Starwood Funds, on the c. £467.9 million recommended cash offer for RDI REIT
• TPG Real Estate:
  • on the successful tender offer and the acquisition of a majority stake in Studio Babelsberg AG  
  • on the financing of its c. €300 million acquisition of Spanish Real Estate Investment Trust, Témpore Properties
• Wyndham Worldwide on the finance aspects of its agreement to sell its European vacation rental business to Platinum Equity for c.US$1.3 billion

Representative matters prior to joining Kirkland & Ellis include:

• Blackstone:
  
  • on the acquisition of the CG Malls Europe Fund
  • as a lender, on the €220m financing (and subsequent re-tranching) of 29 pan-European commercial real estate assets for the Invista Group
  • on the acquisition of Multi Corporation
  • on the bid to acquire the pan-European “Hampton” loan and swaps portfolio from Lloyds Banking Group
• Victory Real Estate Funds on the acquisition and financing of various assets in The Netherlands, including in respect of the Atrium office complex in Amsterdam
• Citigroup on the origination and syndication of numerous facilities, including in respect of:
  
  • a loan secured against a portfolio of UK logistics assets
  • the senior and mezzanine financing of a portfolio of UK shopping centres
  • the financing of Greystar’s £600m acquisition of the “Nido” student accommodation portfolio
• TPG Capital on the acquisition and financing of the Woolgate Exchange office complex in the City of London
• Capita Asset Services on the restructuring and work-out of several distressed capital structures (comprising CMBS and loans), including in respect of the £1.2bn facilities secured against the NHP portfolio of UK care homes

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

• Partner, 2014–2017
• Senior Associate, 2010–2014
• Associate, 2005–2010
• Trainee Solicitor, 2003–2005