Kirkland Advises Brookfield on alstria Refinancing

Kirkland & Ellis advised Brookfield in connection with the inaugural offering of €300 million senior secured notes by certain holding companies of its portfolio company alstria office AG, a Germany-based real estate operator focused on acquiring, owning and managing existing office property. The proceeds from the offering were used to fund the repayment and cancellation of alstria’s existing holdco facility. alstria’s portfolio comprises 104 commercial buildings in five of the seven major office markets in the country.

The Kirkland team included capital markets lawyers Tim Volkheimer, Will Taylor, Kelly Dorney, Patrick Wieser, Katherine Hu and Georg Lorenz; debt finance lawyers Lloyd Robertson-Jones, Daniel Borg, Jonathan Birks, Ben Burton, Ben Lewis, Daniel Beck, Barbara Dunkel and Oliver Clayson; corporate lawyers Matthew Elliott and Greg Scott; and tax lawyers Rebecca Fine and Stacie Nguyen.