Kirkland & Ellis Adds Yaman Shukairy as Private Equity Real Estate Partner
Kirkland & Ellis announced today that leading private equity real estate attorney Yaman Shukairy has rejoined the Firm as a partner.
“Yaman is a terrific lawyer with a track record of success guiding significant real estate-related transactions across various sectors and geographies for one of the world’s most prominent alternative asset managers,” said Jon A. Ballis, Chairman of Kirkland & Ellis. “We’re very excited to welcome him back to Kirkland and our strong and growing real estate team.”
Mr. Shukairy returns to Kirkland from leading global alternative asset manager TPG, where he has been general counsel for TPG Real Estate Partners (TREP), the firm’s real estate equity investment fund series, for the last nine years. In this role, he was responsible for all legal aspects of TREP’s investment activities in North America and Europe. Mr. Shukairy also provided support to portfolio companies and management teams. Prior to joining TPG in 2014, Mr. Shukairy was an M&A/private equity partner at Kirkland.
“I’m excited to return to private practice and to do so at Kirkland, where I started my legal career and where the platform for private equity real estate work is unmatched,” said Mr. Shukairy. “I’m very grateful for my time at TPG and for the many terrific relationships that I developed there, and I’m looking forward to continuing to support TPG and the TREP platform, while also helping to continue to grow Kirkland’s Real Estate Practice Group.”
Earlier in his career, Mr. Shukairy held analyst roles with Balyasny Asset Management and Merrill Lynch. He earned his law and undergraduate degrees from the University of Michigan.
Kirkland’s Real Estate Practice Group is made up of experienced, multidisciplinary lawyers who apply their high-level real estate knowledge to a wide range of complex business transactions. The practice regularly represents the industry’s most active and sophisticated private equity sponsors, as well as publicly traded REITs, sovereign wealth funds, major pension organizations and other institutional investors in connection with their real estate and real estate-related activities from fundraising and structuring through deployment of capital and final disposition, mergers and take-private transactions and recapitalizing such investment entities to the extent necessary.
