Eugenie Hui

Since joining Kirkland, Eugenie’s representative matters have included:

• An Asia real estate fund managed by Apollo Global Management, Inc. (NYSE: APO) on its formation of a joint venture with the management team at Haoyang Data and Mandarin Capital to acquire an 80 per cent interest in a data center asset known as Baoding No. 1 Data Center Project in Hebei Province, China 
• LimeTree Capital, a fiduciary private equity investment manager with a focus on under-researched real estate asset classes across Asia, on a platform consolidation of the commercial car park assets held by its two China-focused private investment funds 
• Funlive, a China multifamily specialist, on its joint venture with KKR, a leading global investment firm, to acquire and operate a landmark multifamily project in Beijing (the project) from China SCE Group, an integrated urban services provider that focuses on real estate development 
• Sino-Ocean Prime Office Partners I LP, a US$1.4 billion fund formed by Sino-Ocean Capital, on the acquisition of Ocean Office Park and Project Z6, two grade-A office projects located in the central business district of Beijing

Prior to joining Kirkland, Eugenie’s representative matters have included:

Investment and Joint Venture Transactions

• Manulife in its formation of a partnership with Gaw Capital Partners, as the single largest investor of the Gaw Capital-led consortium, for the HK$9.845 billion acquisition of Cityplaza One, a 21-storey grade-A office tower in Hong Kong, from Swire Pacific and Swire Properties
• Apollo Global Management on its formation of a joint venture with Hong Kong Shanghai Alliance Holdings Limited, a Hong Kong-listed real estate investor, and on the joint venture's RMB3.1 billion acquisition (and financing relating thereto) of Great Wall Financial Building, a 52-storey high-rise landmark commercial building located in Huangpu District, Shanghai
• Hongkong Shanghai Alliance Holdings, a Hong Kong public listed company, in the formation with GIC of a US$350 million investment platform for the acquisition of Shanghai office properties
• HNA Holdings Group, a Chinese conglomerate involved in aviation, real estate, financial services, tourism, and logistics, in its US$137 million acquisition of the portfolio of Oki Seattle Golf Course, including The Plateau Club in Sammamish, Washington
• China Life in the US$1.65 billion acquisition of 1285 Avenue of the Americas in Manhattan. The purchaser consortium was led by RXR Realty LLC., a New York Tri-State Area active institutional owner, manager, and developer. China Life is the single largest investor in the transaction
• Ping An Trust in raising a Chinese RMB fund and forming two joint ventures with Pacific Eagle (US) Real Estate Fund, L.P., a private equity fund co-sponsored by Great Eagle Holdings Limited and a wholly-owned subsidiary of China Orient Asset Management Corporation, for the development of two U.S. residential real estate projects in San Francisco and Malibu, California
• A leading international alternative investment manager in its formation of a joint venture platform with a Hong Kong listed PRC developer with respect to the development and/or acquisition of industrial properties in Shanghai, China, as well as the joint venture's follow-on investments
• Hongkong Shanghai Alliance Holdings, a Hong Kong public listed company, in its sale of a commercial building in Shanghai, China
• A private equity fund in the formation of a joint venture logistics platform with respect to the development and/or acquisition of logistics properties across the PRC, as well as the joint venture's follow-on investments
• A private equity fund in various disposition and acquisition of commercial and office properties in Shanghai, China
• A pension fund in an acquisition and joint venture investment with a leading Chinese real estate developer in relation to a mixed-use development project in Suzhou, China
• A leading global asset management firm in its disposition of a shopping mall in Chengdu, China
• A private equity fund and an investment bank in their joint venture acquisition and financing with a PRC developer of a mixed-use residential and commercial development project in Kunshan, China

Financing Transactions

• CDIB Capital International, a private equity arm of China Development Financial, and its affiliates KGI Bank and KGI Securities, on their US$45 million corporate mezzanine financing to one of the leading serviced apartment providers in Hong Kong. The financing transaction consisted of a combination of loan facility and note sharing a common transaction security package
• A joint venture logistics platform of a real estate fund and a leading real estate investment management firm in an onshore and offshore financings in respect of the acquisition of a portfolio of three PRC logistics properties, with an aggregate transaction value of approximately US$26 million
• GIC as majority senior noteholder in a US$3.3 billion deferrable senior secured tranche A note financing of The Center, reportedly the priciest office trade ever at that time
• An international bank in a RMB443 million construction financing of a logistics facility in Chengdu
• An international bank in a HK$6+ billion financing for the acquisition of an office tower in Hong Kong
• Manager of a Hong Kong REIT in a £50 million secured refinancing in respect of a portfolio of 84 commercial properties in the United Kingdom
• The overseas corporate financing platform of a leading Chinese state-owned bank in a US$45 million mezzanine financing to a leading integrated industrial properties and service platform provider in China
• A private equity fund in various onshore and offshore acquisition financing and refinancing transactions in respect of commercial properties in Shanghai, China
• An international bank in an onshore and offshore acquisition financing of a commercial property in Dalian, China
• An international bank in a US$75 million onshore and offshore limited recourse financing of a commercial property in Suzhou, China
• An international bank in a US$250 million onshore and offshore limited recourse financing of an office property in Shanghai, China