Brian Senie

Partner Tax

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Brian Senie

Practices

Overview

Brian Senie is a tax partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Named a 2025 SuperLawyers “Rising Star,” Brian focuses on the tax structuring and execution of complex private equity and real estate transactions, including joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, fund formation, financings, dispositions, recapitalizations and restructurings. His extensive work in the REIT space includes equity and debt transactions across a wide variety of sectors both traditional and nontraditional, ranging from residential, office and retail to hotels and lodging, gaming, health care, marinas, storage, pipelines, infrastructure and data centers, and encompasses aspects ranging from fund-level structuring for investments and investors to property-level services and day-to-day management. Although tax planning in the larger private equity spheres forms the core of his practice, Brian has significant experience with additional real-estate-related topics such as qualified opportunity zones, like-kind exchanges, tenancies-in-common, refinancings, real property unwinds, and New York City and State real property transfer tax.

Representative Clients

Blackstone, Brightstar Capital, Brookfield, CyrusOne, Davidson Kempner, Eldridge Industries, Everview Partners, Kimmeridge Energy Management, KKR, Lone Star Funds, Monarch Alternative Capital, Ridgewood Energy Corp., Riverstone, Rockwood Capital, Sandbrook Capital, Starwood Capital, The Milestone Group, Towerbrook Capital, Varde Partners and Ventas, Inc.

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

  • 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.
Counsel, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

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Recognition

SuperLawyers, “Rising Stars,” 2025

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • New York

Education

  • New York University School of LawJ.D.cum laude2014
    Senior Articles Editor, The NYU Review of Law and Social Change
  • Yale UniversityB.A.2011
    Editor, The Yale Philosophy Review