Gina Park Garcia
Partner Real Estate
Overview
Gina Garcia is a real estate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She counsels clients on the Real Estate aspects of the Firm’s Private Equity, M&A, Debt Finance, Energy, Renewables, Infrastructure and Restructuring transactions. Gina’s experience spans industries and asset classes including office, retail, shipping terminals and logistics, data centers, gaming and hospitality, entertainment and media, and renewable and traditional energy. She has prior experience representing clients on a variety of commercial real estate transactions including acquisitions, dispositions, financing, leasing, and programmatic joint ventures.
Experience
Representative Matters
Mergers & Acquisitions
- Brightstar Capital Partners-backed Amerit Fleet Solutions, a provider of commercial fleet maintenance and repair services, in its sale to New Mountain Capital
- Wind Point Partners-backed Quantix in its acquisition of Space City Services, a provider of transportation services for hazardous and non-hazardous chemicals and waste materials
- Ascend Capital Partners in its acquisition of Unison Therapy Services, a provider of therapy services for children
- Bansk Group in its acquisition of Foundation Wellness, a provider a consumer health & wellness platform for orthotics and other footcare-focused solutions, from Gridiron Capital
- Bansk Group in its acquisition of No Man's Land Foods, a provider of beef jerky and meat sticks
- An infrastructure fund in its acquisition of GridTek Utility Services, a provider of repair, maintenance, installation and upgrade services for electric transmission and distribution infrastructure
- BlackRock Global Infrastructure Fund in its investment in a joint venture with QTS Realty Trust and Wren House Infrastructure that owns three data centers in Northern Virginia operated by QTS Realty Trust
- Dunes Point Capital in the sale of Unified Door and Hardware Group, a provider of doors and related hardware, to Foundation Building Materials
- Fort Point Capital in its acquisition of Ice House America, a provider of ice, water and ice vending machines, from Ulysses Management
- Greenbriar Equity Group in its acquisition of Renuity, a provider of replacement and remodeling services to homeowners, from York Private Equity
- Greenbriar Equity Group in its acquisition of Sunvair Aerospace Group, a provider of aircraft component maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services, from Blue Sea Capital
- HGGC in the sale of Marmic Fire & Safety, a provider of inspection and maintenance services for fire protection equipment, to KKR
- Madison Dearborn Partners in its acquisition of T2S Solutions, a provider of R&D, prototyping, engineering, integration and technology products
- Portage Point Partners, a provider of business advisory, interim management and investment banking services, in its investment from New Mountain Capital
- Pritzker Private Capital-backed ProAmpac in its acquisition of Gelpac, a provider of multiwall paper and poly-woven packaging products, from an investor group including NAMAKOR, W Investments and CDPQ
- Monomoy Capital Partners-backed Sportech, a provider of cab components and assemblies for OEM customers, in its $315 million sale to Patrick Industries (NASDAQ: PATK)
- Trilantic Capital Partners-backed Taymax in its acquisition of Saber Fitness, an operator of Planet Fitness clubs
- TPG Rise Climate, as lead investor, in a $375 million Series B financing of BETA Technologies, a developer of a fully integrated electric aviation system
- True Green Capital in the $293 million sale of a 220 MW portfolio of distributed solar assets to Altus Power (NYSE: AMPS)
- Twin Ridge Capital Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: TRCA), a special purpose acquisition company, in its $270 million business combination with Carbon Revolution (ASX: CBR), an OEM supplier and manufacturer of lightweight advanced technology carbon fiber wheels
- Warren Equity Partners in its investment in Ovation Holdings, a provider of distribution and maintenance, repair and operations services for the flow control and instrumentation markets
- EQT Private Equity in its sale of Zemax, an optical product design and simulation software provider, to Ansys (NASDAQ: ANSS)
- AE Industrial Partners-backed American Pacific, a provider of additives used in solid rocket motors, in its $700 million sale to NewMarket (NYSE: NEU)
- SKKY Partners in its investment in TRUFF, a brand of premium condiments and truffle infused products
- TJC in its $1.8 billion acquisition of the Delrin acetal homopolymer business of DuPont (NYSE: DD)
Debt Finance
- Rivers Enterprise Borrower, LLC, owner and operator of premier regional casinos, in a series of recapitalization transactions
- Equinox Group, the owner of a high-growth collective of influential luxury lifestyle brands, including Equinox Fitness Clubs, SoulCycle, Equinox Hotels and Blink Fitness, in a comprehensive refinancing of its capital structure that enhanced liquidity and resulted in significant maturity extensions across its capital structure. The proceeds of the $1.8 billion financing, which was led by Sixth Street and Silver Lake, in addition to a consortium of other private credit funds, were used to refinance the existing first lien, second lien and revolving credit facilities of the Equinox clubs and fund working capital across the Equinox Group brands
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Memberships & Affiliations
Hispanic National Bar Association
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- New York
Education
- Fordham University School of LawJ.D.2018Pro Bono Scholar
- Northwestern UniversityB.A.2015
News &
Insights
- Press Release Kirkland Represents Dunes Point Capital on Acquisition of Controlling Interest in Greenwood Industries
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Monomoy on $315 Million Sale of Sportech to Patrick Industries
- Press Release Kirkland Represents TJC on Acquisition of Majority Stake of Delrin
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Twin Ridge Capital Acquisition Corp. on Business Combination with Carbon Revolution Limited