Kirkland & Ellis Private Equity Real Estate? Forum

[Anonymous User]

Hi, I recently attended a lunch/presentation by attorneys for Kirkland & Ellis' New York real estate group. I was wondering if anyone has more information about working in this practice group/hours, or types of clients, practice group culture etc?

They specified that this group focuses mostly on private equity funds and real estate, rather than "dirt work" like at a traditional real estate group such as Fried Frank etc. I would appreciate any other information!

Thanks!

[Anonymous User]

bump....anyone?

[Anonymous User]

I assume you're talking about the RE practice that is essentially a support group to the corporate M&A practice. Basically doing diligence for RE issues on a target company, writing up a memo, negotiating RE issues in the purchase agreement, etc. You'll be on about a million deals and constantly be running from fire drill to fire drill. But good experience I would think (I don't do RE). I can't speak for NY, but it doesn't seem like they can hold on to associates very long in that group in Chicago.

[v5junior]

Or do you mean the RE practice that is essentially an M&A practice that only does acquisitions of real estate assets? I don't think K&E does much of that.