A. Kelly Ryan, P.C.

Kelly Ryan has a breadth of experience across the entire real estate funds market place and adjacent considerations (founder considerations, strategic goals, GP governance etc.) that cannot be compared to any other industry expert including other attorneys, bankers, placement agents or consultants. The trust his clients place in him, allow him to have the depth of knowledge and relationship that no one else has. - The Legal 500 United States

Kelly Ryan is the global leader of the Firm’s real estate funds practice, with 20+ years of experience focused exclusively on real estate private equity across the U.S., Europe and Asia. Kelly represents many of the largest global private equity firms, as well as sector-specific operators and allocators, newly formed spin-outs and family offices in launching open-end and permanent capital products, closed-end funds, club deals and separately managed accounts focused on real estate, infrastructure and other real assets. A significant portion of his practice also focuses strategic investments, secondary transactions and other liquidity events involving private equity firms.

Kelly Ryan is recognized as a leading investment funds lawyer by numerous publications. Most recently, Kelly was ranked as a top tier attorney in Chambers Global 2021 and Chambers USA 2021 for Fund Formation. Market sources in Chambers USA’s Tier 1 ranking of Kirkland & Ellis LLP's Fund Formation Practice Group state that Kelly provides “just the best experience in terms of work product and responsiveness.” Kelly Ryan was also recognized as a global leader and leading lawyer by Who’s Who Legal for Private Funds 2020–2021, and as a notable practitioner by IFLR1000 2019–2021. In addition, The Legal 500’s first-tier ranking of Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s fund formation practice recently explained in its 2021 rankings that “Kelly Ryan has a breadth of experience across the entire real estate funds market place and adjacent considerations (founder considerations, strategic goals, GP governance etc. ) that cannot be compared to any other industry expert including other attorneys, bankers, placement agents or consultants. The trust his clients place in him, allow him to have the depth of knowledge and relationship that no one else has,” and in an earlier edition, “[r]eal estate private equity specialist Kelly Ryan ‘is always able to come up with creative solutions to any problems that a fund faces.’”