Kirkland Advises on Launch of Derby Lane Partners

Kirkland & Ellis advised on the launch of Derby Lane Partners, a newly formed alternative investment management firm founded by Adam Piekarski with up to $1.8 billion committed across the platform from the strategic anchor partners. Derby Lane will provide flexible, creative capital solutions to the market across asset classes, with an initial focus on the compelling investment opportunity in commercial real estate credit in North America. The firm launches with the support of strategic anchor partners, including BTG Pactual, funds managed by affiliates of Fortress Investment Group, Koch Real Estate Investments, Liberty Mutual Investments, Silver Creek Capital Management and Stable.

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The Kirkland team included investment funds lawyers Martín Strauch, Pete Vaglio, Dan Kahl, Kevin Aguirre, Lyndon Ewing, Paul Caruso and Alexander Green; tax lawyers Mike Beinus, Lora Shub-Brown and Jon Herlin; debt finance lawyers Aditi Iyer, Sonia Merrikh, Abigail Joens-Witherow and Kaley Elizabeth Schnurbusch; real estate lawyer Victoria Shusterman; executive compensation lawyer Stephen Brecher; employment & labor lawyer Mari Stonebraker; and investment funds ERISA lawyer Sabrina Glaser and Theodore Brown.