Brian Senie

Since joining Kirkland, Brian’s representative transactions have included:

• Ares Management, on behalf of Ares U.S. Real Estate Opportunity Fund IV, in connection with the acquisition of a real estate investment trust (REIT) from EQT Exeter, which owns a $650 million portfolio of 36 industrial and logistics center assets located in 13 states. The acquisition, which closed on March 26, 2026, was financed in part with a $500 million single-asset single-borrower loan originated by Wells Fargo, Bank of America and Barclays
• U.S. private equity fund in its $685 million recapitalization of a 37-property last mile logistics portfolio located in 10 states throughout the U.S.
• U.S. private equity fund in its $1.55 billion sale of a multifamily portfolio to a subsidiary of Brookfield Properties
• U.S. private equity fund in an approximately $800 million acquisition of 11 development sites located across Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston and Austin, Texas, to be developed into master-planned communities
• Private equity fund in the formation of a joint venture to develop a data center near Toronto
• A leading private equity firm in the formation of a $640 million single asset continuation vehicle for its current portfolio company
• Varde Partners-backed Trimont in its acquisition of the non-agency third-party Commercial Mortgage Servicing business from Wells Fargo (NYSE: WFC)
• Global investment management firm on the restructuring and modification of a matured $377 million mortgage loan
• A leading real estate focused private equity firm in the formation of a real estate credit fund
• Seller and ground lessor, in connection with an $88 million acquisition and ground leaseback of land in Texas, for a future 400-MW data center development
• GIP and KKR-backed CyrusOne in its joint venture with Energy Capital Partners to develop a new 190 MW hyperscale data center campus in Bosque County, Texas
• Lender in connection with its origination of a mortgage loan for $365.5 million secured by an industrial portfolio of 19 properties located throughout North Carolina and South Carolina
• Sandbrook Capital, alongside NGP, in its $300 million capital commitment in Cloverleaf Infrastructure, a developer of digital infrastructure sites
• Fund and its cosponsors on the formation of a joint venture to acquire and develop hotels under an outdoor lifestyle brand
• The Milestone Group in the formation of its $1.1 billion Milestone Real Estate Investors VI

Prior to joining Kirkland, Brian’s representative transactions included:

• American Securities in its $1.575 billion sale of Henry Company LLC
• Core-Mark Holding Company, Inc. in its $2.5 billion sale to Performance Food Group
• Dual North America, Inc., the specialist underwriting arm of Howden Group Holdings Limited (f/k/a Hyperion Insurance Group Limited), in its acquisition of Align Financial Holdings, LLC
• Lineage Logistics, LLC in its $208 million acquisition of Turvo Inc.
• MGM Resorts International in its $17.2 billion sale of MGM Growth Properties LLC to VICI Properties Inc.
• MGM Resorts International in its $2.1 billion acquisition of the 50 percent stake it did not already own in CityCenter and its $3.9 billion sale and leaseback of the Aria Resort and Vdara Hotel real estate at CityCenter
• MGM Resorts International in its $450 million sale of the operations of Gold Strike Casino Resort in Tunica, Mississippi to CNE (a subsidiary of Cherokee Nation Businesses)
• PSG and its portfolio company Netsurion LLC (a portfolio company of PSG), a provider of adaptive managed security solutions that integrates with existing security investments and technology stacks, in the sale of Netsurion’s Secure Edge Networking business segment to Acumera, Inc. (a portfolio company of Peak Rock Capital)
• Redbox Entertainment Inc. in its pending sale to Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment, Inc.