Kimberly L. McGrath, P.C.
Overview
Kimberly concentrates her practice on commercial real estate financings and data center financings. She has advised real estate funds, public sector entities, real estate investment trusts and real estate developers in numerous sophisticated transactions involving all types of real estate asset classes in connection with a broad range of types of financings, including construction, mezzanine, balance sheet, CMBS and other bespoke financings products. Kimberly handles data center financing representations, offering tailored legal counsel for any stage in the data center lifecycle from powered land to construction financing and stabilized CMBS financings. She provides guidance to data center operators and developers in the structuring of data center customer contracts, including leases, colocation agreements and other service-related agreements.
Experience
Representative Matters
Recent Data Center Transactions
- Represented confidential funds and global infrastructure investment firm in a $755 million fixed rate, CMBS mortgage loan for three data center properties located in Northern Virginia.
- Represented Blue Owl in $15 billion joint venture with Crusoe Energy Systems for the development of a 1.2 GW AI data center campus comprised of eight buildings and a total of 32 data halls, located in Abilene, Texas, and long-term leased to a Fortune 100 hyperscaler tenant, together with construction loan financing totaling $9.4 billion of proceeds.
- Represented Blue Owl in a $610 million construction loan for development of a 50 MW AI/HPC data center located in Northern Virginia, leased to CoreWeave Inc.
- Represented CyrusOne in $687 million CMBS loan for a data center located in Texas.
- Represented CyrusOne on a $7.9 billion U.S. warehouse facility and $1.8 billion revolving credit facility, bringing the total debt capital raised to approximately $9.7 billion.
- Represented the acquiring consortium and KKR in the $15 billion all-cash acquisition of CyrusOne Inc. (NASDAQ: CONE).
Recent Real Estate Transactions
- Represented Bridge Industrial in a $430 million CMBS refinancing of two warehouse and distribution facilities in Rancho Cucamonga, California.
- Represented a private equity real estate firm in the closing of a $900 million credit facility, which will be used to finance the firm’s acquisition of triple-net leased commercial real estate throughout the U.S. and Canada.
- Represented a real estate operating company and investment manager focused on the development and acquisition of industrial properties in the U.S. and Europe, in a comprehensive reorganization of its company structure that created separate platforms for its fee-based management services and real estate equity holdings.
- Represented Blue Owl in its $15 billion acquisition together with GIC of STORE Capital Corporation (NYSE: STOR).
- Represented Borrower in its $1.2 billion refinancing of a portfolio of extended stay hotels.
- Represented StorageMart in its acquisition and financing of Manhattan Mini Storage. The purchase of Manhattan Mini Storage includes the entirety of the company's 18 self-storage real estate locations throughout Manhattan.
- Represented Washington Prime Group in its Chapter 11 restructuring, including modifying over $1 billion of secured loans, negotiating modifications with its lead joint venture partner on over $1 billion of assets to prepare for the Chapter 11 filing and negotiating a DIP financing and pre-arranged corporate level financing for the emergence of the company.
- Represented a real estate private equity firm in a $1.2 billion real estate financing of industrial properties throughout the US.
- Represented a real estate private equity firm in a $740 million CMBS financing of a portfolio of 100 industrial properties throughout the US.
- Represented a private hotel company in connection with its $730 million CMBS first mortgage and mezzanine financing secured by 30 hotels located throughout the U.S.
- Represented a private equity firm in $151 million financing of 7 office properties located in Texas, California and Virginia.
- Represented Aeroterm US in its acquisition of more than 120 airport logistics assets located in the United States and Canada for approximately $900 million.
- Represented a U.S. real estate investment firm in connection with its $340 million acquisition of the Standard Highline Hotel in New York, New York.
- Represented a U.S. real estate developer in connection with its $102 million first mortgage construction financing for a 41-story ground up multifamily high rise located in Seattle, Washington.
- Represented a private hotel company in connection with its $750 million first mortgage and mezzanine financing secured by 29 hotels.
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Thought Leadership
Press Mentions
Quoted, “Self Storage, An Industry Darling, Steps Strongly Into 2023,” Law360, February 7, 2023.
Recognition
Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2012Illinois
Education
- University of Illinois College of LawJ.D.summa cum laude2012
Order of the Coif
Notes Editor, Elder Law Journal
CALI Excellence for the Future Award in Real Estate Transactions
- University of South CarolinaB.A., Historymagna cum laude2009Phi Beta Kappa
News &
Insights
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Blue Owl on $15 Billion Data Center Development
- Press Release Kirkland Advises Blue Owl Funds on JV and Financing for Development of Abilene Data Center
- Press Release Kirkland Advises CyrusOne on Securing a $687.1 Million Commercial Mortgage-Backed Security
- Press Release Kirkland Represents CyrusOne in Securing $9.7 Billion in New Debt Capital to Fund Datacenter Growth
- Press Release Kirkland Represents Oak Street on $15 Billion Acquisition of STORE Capital