Nancy Zakiniaeiz is a real estate partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Her practice focuses on acquisitions, dispositions, financings, and joint ventures for institutional investors, owners and developers.
Experience
Representative Matters
Since joining Kirkland, Nancy has been involved in the following matters:
Represented Rockwood Capital in the formation of a joint venture with Lowe Enterprises and AECOM-Canyon Partners and related recapitalization and financing for the development of Ivy Station, a mixed use transit-oriented development in Culver City, CA consisting of a 240,000 SF, 5-story office building, 200 apartments, 148-room boutique hotel and 50,000 SF of retail & restaurant space;
Represented Oaktree Capital Management in the formation of a series of programmatic joint ventures with Xebec Realty Partners to acquire and develop industrial real estate projects, and related acquisitions and financings by the joint ventures;
Represented Oaktree Capital Management in the formation of a joint venture with The EMMES Group of Companies to recapitalize Centerview, a LEED Platinum, 625,000 SF Class A office property located in Irvine, California, and a related financing from CIM Group;
Represented Rockwood Capital in the formation of a joint venture with Security Properties to acquire and finance a portfolio of multi-family assets comprising Ardea, a 323-unit Class A high-rise located in Portland, Oregon; Windward, a 200-unit Class A+ missed-use project in Lake Oswego, Oregon; and The Metro, a 415-unit Class A- asset in Denver;
Represented QuadReal Property Group Limited Partnership in the formation of a joint venture with Stream Realty Partners and related acquisition financing to acquire and develop Tapo Canyon Commerce Center in Simi Valley, California;
Represented QuadReal Property Group Limited Partnership in two separate equity commitments to programmatic joint ventures with Mill Creek Residential Trust LLC to develop multi-family projects in select supply-constrained, high barrier-to-entry submarkets in the U.S.;
Represented QuadReal Property Group Limited Partnership in the formation of joint venture with Transwestern Development Company and related construction financing to develop a build-to-suit project comprising 400,000+ square feet on behalf of Walmart in Lebanon, Pennsylvania;
Represented Oaktree Capital Management in the formation of a joint venture with Vestar to acquire The Gateway Retail and Entertainment Center, a 623,205 square foot open-air retail and entertainment center within The Gateway in the heart of downtown Salt Lake City, and related acquisition, loan assumption, complex loan restructure and later refinancing.
Prior to joining Kirkland, Nancy was involved in the following matters:
Represented opportunity fund in a joint venture, acquisition and financing of a retail and office portfolio in North Hollywood, California.
Represented opportunity fund in a joint venture to finance a transit-related mixed use office, hotel and residential project in Culver City, California.
Represented opportunity fund in the refinancing of a retail center in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Represented real estate investment trust in a 21-asset multi-state office portfolio sale to a joint venture and simultaneous financing.
Represented opportunity fund in the sale of a multi-state portfolio of industrial properties.
Represented opportunity fund in construction financing for condominium development project in Southern California.
Represented opportunity fund in the refinancing of the historic Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C.
Represented institutional lender in the making of acquisition loans on various office projects.
Prior Experience
Paul Hastings LLP
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Credentials
Admissions & Qualifications
California
Languages
English
Arabic
Education
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law SchoolJ.D.2017
Editor-in-Chief, University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law & Public Affairs
Certificate in Business Management, The Wharton School of Business
City University of New York, Queens CollegeB.A., Psychology & Sociologysumma cum laude2008