Roberto S. Miceli
Overview
Roberto Miceli is a partner in Real Estate Group in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Roberto focuses his practice on complex public and private company real estate transactions, including domestic and international acquisitions, dispositions and mergers. He has experience in structuring and negotiating real estate funds and private placements as well as significant exposure to secured and unsecured credit facilities. His experience also includes the representation of institutional and private equity real estate clients in the formation and negotiation of joint ventures. Representation ranges from single site domestic deals to multisite, cross-border transactions.
Experience
Representative Matters
Represented Integrity in its acquisition of Stride Health, a provider of a portable benefits platform.
Represented Magnolia Oil & Gas Corp. in its pending $4.06 billion acquisition of WildFire Energy.
Represented TPG Real Estate on its approximately $2 billion acquisition of ECHO Realty, a leading owner and operator of approximately 230 grocery-anchored retail centers across key Midwest and Southeast markets, alongside major global investment partners.
Represented TPG on its joint venture with retail operator Acadia Realty Trust in connection with the $424.4 million acquisition of The Shops at Skyview in Queens, New York, and a related mortgage loan.
Represented TPG Real Estate in its acquisition of 100% of membership interests in Caesars Linq, LLC, the owner of the Linq Promenade in Las Vegas, NV, and the associated joint venture and financing.
Representing U.S. Renal Care in its successful refinancing and deleveraging transactions. U.S. Renal Care is the nation's largest privately held and fastest growing kidney care provider with a network of over 400 clinics and 200 home programs. The liability management transaction significantly reduced the Company's debt, lowered its annual interest expense by approximately 20 percent, and raised $328 million in new capital to enhance future growth. The transaction also extended the maturities of the Company’s debt by two years.
Represented Oaktree Transportation Infrastructure Fund in its acquisition of Dow’s North American rail infrastructure assets, in partnership with Watco Companies.
Representing KKR in its pending merger of assets held by KKR Natural Resources Funds with the assets of Legend Production Holdings, LLC, a portfolio company of Riverstone Holdings LLC, to create a new oil and gas company called Trinity River Energy, LLC.
Represented Al Faisal Holding Co. in its $213 million acquisition of the St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort in Miami, FL from Starwood Hotels & Resorts Inc.
Represented Anglo Irish Bank Corporation Limited (now known as Irish Bank Resolution Corporation) in the sale of its $9.5 billion portfolio of U.S. commercial real estate loans.
Represented General Growth Properties in a comprehensive restructuring of over $15 billion of property-level CMBS debt.
Represented MSR Golf Course LLC and certain of its affiliates in their Chapter 11 restructuring of approximately $2.2 billion in consolidated assets and approximately $1.9 billion in consolidated liabilities, including $1 billion in CMBS loans and more than $500 million of mezzanine loans.
Represent Innkeepers USA in connection with the debt restructuring and sale of over 70 hotels operated under various franchise agreements.
Represent GEM Realty Capital in connection with the development and financing of a Hilton and Waldorf hotels convention center.
Represented Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc., in the formation of a joint venture for the $638 million purchase of the Aladdin Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Represented a national homebuilder in connection with the negotiation and restructuring of a portfolio of land bank, option agreements and other off balance contractual obligations.
Represented TOUSA, Inc. in connection with the disposition of its Southwest and Northeast homebuilding divisions.
Represented Conseco, Inc., the controlling joint venture partner, in connection with the $1.4 billion sale of the General Motors Building in New York City.
Represented General Motors Investment Management Company, as investment manager to General Motors Pension Trust, with the equity investment in a multifamily real estate equity fund.
Represented LaSalle Investment Management in connection with the restructuring of a $350 million United Kingdom-based real estate fund to permit the tax efficient investment in United States real estate.
Represented British Petroleum in connection with the sale of refinery assets including the $152 million sale of a refinery in Yorktown, VA.
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
- 2000Illinois
Education
- University of Minnesota Law SchoolJ.D.cum laude1995
- New York University School of LawLL.M.1996
- University of Wisconsin-MadisonB.B.A.1991