Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Real Estate Finance

Meghan Cocci is a real estate partner in the Los Angeles office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. She represents owners, investors and operators on their most complex and highest-value hospitality and real estate projects and transactions around the world. Meghan’s practice includes a wide range of real estate and hospitality matters, including single-asset and portfolio property acquisitions and dispositions and the formation and structuring of joint ventures. She regularly negotiates management, franchise and license agreements for hotels, resorts, golf courses, spas, restaurants and other hospitality and leisure projects. Meghan also represents clients in acquisitions and dispositions of hotel management companies and provides strategic counsel on mixed-use developments.

Meghan is a nationally recognized real estate lawyer who advises clients on a broad range of transactions and strategic matters, with a particular focus on the hospitality industry. She has over two decades of experience advising on many of the most significant hospitality transactions in the U.S. and internationally, including Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Drawing on her sophisticated industry knowledge and strong working relationships with key market players, Meghan offers strategic insights into how business and legal issues can play out in the long term.

She delivers creative and business-focused counsel to a variety of market participants, including hotel and non-hotel real estate investment trusts (REITs), private equity funds, family offices, and real estate developers to address her clients’ business objectives.

Former Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP

AHLA, Hospitality Investment Roundtable

ULI, Hotel Development Council

ULI LA, Hospitality & Entertainment Development Council

University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, J.D., 1998

University of Texas at Austin, B.B.A., 1995