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Kirkland & Ellis LLP Offices

333 West Wolf Point Plaza
Chicago, IL 60654
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Ms Rachel Brown

Position
Real Estate partner Rachel Brown has extensive experience representing both borrowers and lenders in the negotiation and documentation of real estate financing transactions, including mortgage loans, construction loans, mezzanine loans, other structured financings, revolving lines of credit and corporate level financings, as well as secondary market financing transactions including participations, co-lending relationships and the acquisition and disposition of debt positions. Rachel also regularly represents real estate investors in the acquisition, venture formation and disposition of real estate in all asset classes.
Education
B.A., University of Michigan; J.D., cum laude, Loyola University Chicago.
Lawyer Rankings
United States > Real estate > Real estate
Kirkland & Ellis LLP’s real estate team is regularly engaged to act in a variety of real estate transactions across the US. The group represents major private equity firms, as well as publicly traded REITs, and institutional investors, in connection with financial structurings, acquisitions and dispositions, and mergers. The team has broad and in-depth expertise in all the major asset classes, such as office, retail and large-scale multifamily housing properties, and data centers. The team is led by three practice co-heads, based in various locations across the country. Jonathan Schechter, based in New York, has extensive experience representing private equity investors in connection with the formation of joint ventures and acquisitions, dispositions, and mergers. Christopher Hartmann also works in New York, representing private equity firms, and large sovereign wealth funds. In the Los Angeles office, co-head Kevin Ehrhart focuses on the acquisition and disposition of commercial office, hospitality, and multi-family assets. Rachel Brown also acts as co-head working out of the Chicago office, advising borrowers and lenders on all types of real estate-based financing transactions.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Media, technology and telecoms > Advertising and marketing: litigation
- Finance > Capital markets: high-yield debt offerings
- International trade and national security > CFIUS
- Antitrust > Civil litigation/class actions: defense
- Finance > Commercial lending
- Intellectual property > Copyright
- Dispute resolution > Corporate investigations and white-collar criminal defense
- Labor and employment > Employee benefits, executive compensation and retirement plans: transactional
- Energy > Energy litigation: oil and gas
- Energy > Energy transactions: electric power
- Energy > Energy transactions: oil and gas
- Environment > Environment: transactional
- Dispute resolution > General commercial disputes
- Tax > International tax
- Dispute resolution > M&A litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > M&A: large deals ($1bn+)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (full coverage)
- Intellectual property > Patents: litigation (International Trade Commission)
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Private equity buyouts: large deals ($500m+)
- Investment fund formation and management > Private equity funds (including venture capital)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: consumer products (including tobacco)
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: pharmaceuticals and medical devices
- Real estate > Real estate
- Energy > Renewable/alternative power
- Finance > Restructuring (including bankruptcy): corporate
- Dispute resolution > Securities litigation: defense
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Shareholder activism
- Finance > Structured finance: securitization
- Media, technology and telecoms > Technology transactions
- Intellectual property > Trade secrets (litigation and non-contentious matters)
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: litigation
- Tax > US taxes: non-contentious
Firm Rankings
- Finance > Capital markets: debt offerings
- Finance > Capital markets: equity offerings
- Antitrust > Cartel
- Dispute resolution > E-discovery
- Energy > Energy regulation: electric power
- Antitrust > Merger control
- Investment fund formation and management > Mutual/registered/exchange-traded funds
- Media, technology and telecoms > Outsourcing
- Intellectual property > Patents: licensing
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: automotive/transport
- Dispute resolution > Product liability, mass tort and class action - defense: toxic tort
- Real estate > Real estate investment trusts (REITs)
- Government > State attorneys general
- Tax > US taxes: contentious
- Dispute resolution > Appellate: courts of appeals / Appellate: supreme courts (states and federal)
- Transport > Aviation and air travel: litigation and regulation
- Finance > Commercial lending > Advice to direct lenders/private credit
- M&A/corporate and commercial > Corporate governance
- Environment > Environment: litigation
- Dispute resolution > Financial services litigation
- Insurance > Insurance: non-contentious
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: litigation
- Media, technology and telecoms > Media and entertainment: transactional
- International trade and national security > National Security
- Finance > Project finance
- Intellectual property > Trademarks: non-contentious (including prosecution, portfolio management and licensing)
- International trade and national security > Customs, export controls and economic sanctions
- Healthcare > Life sciences
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Dispute resolution > Leading trial lawyers
- Government > Government relations