Tam Ho is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Tam represents private equity funds and other investors, as well as developers and other sponsors on complex joint ventures, acquisitions and dispositions of interests in private and public companies, preferred equity investments, mergers and acquisitions, and other transactions relating to the real estate industry.
Experience
Representative Matters
Since joining Kirkland, Tam has been involved in the following matters:
Blue Owl in $3.4 billion joint venture with Crusoe Energy Systems LLC for the development of a 200 MW AI data center located in Texas and long-term leased to a Fortune 100 hyperscale tenant
TPG Real Estate on its joint venture with Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), the largest global provider of cloud- and carrier-neutral data center, colocation and interconnection solutions, in which TPG acquired majority stake in three stabilized hyperscale data centers in Northern Virginia and the related financing thereof. The three hyperscale data centers were contributed to the joint venture at an aggregate value of $1.5 billion
Blue Owl in $711 million joint venture for development of a 60 MW AI/HPC data center located in Northern Virginia, leased to CoreWeave Inc.
Prior to joining Kirkland, Tam was involved in the following matters:
One of the world’s largest private digital infrastructure funds in a joint venture for the $400 million ground-up development of a state-of-the-art hyperscale datacenter in Japan
A Middle Eastern-based global manager of alternative investment products in a programmatic joint venture with two sovereign wealth funds for industrial properties in the U.S., and the recapitalization of an existing $600 million industrial portfolio
A New York City-based real estate firm in a three-party joint venture with two capital partners for a luxury multifamily residential condominium in New York City
A U.S. real estate firm in a two-tier joint venture for a 500-key resort in Kaanapali Beach, Hawaii
A U.S. real estate investment and development firm in a two-tier joint venture with an insurance company and an operator of luxury boutique hotels for a Little Palm Island, a 30-key luxury resort in Little Torch Key, FL
A global investment firm in a joint venture for the Center Building, an office building in Long Island City, Queens, NY
A U.S. investment manager in a joint venture for a 418-unit multifamily property in Denver, CO
A real estate investment advisor and operator in a programmatic joint venture with a state pension fund for industrial properties throughout the U.S.
A private equity firm in a three-party joint venture with two capital partners for a ground-up multifamily development in Cambridge, MA
A U.K.-based internationally diversified property group in programmatic joint ventures with:
a Brazilian private equity firm for student housing in Brazil
an Arizona-based private equity firm for parking properties in the U.S.
a New York private equity firm for student housing in the U.S.
a Dallas-based private equity firm for medical office buildings in the U.S.
The Related Companies in a joint venture with a sovereign wealth fund for the development of 35 Hudson Yards, New York City
Brookfield Asset Management in the sale of Simply Self Storage to Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust, Inc. for $1.2 billion
U.S. investment bank in connection with a joint venture for the ground-up development of a one million square foot office tower in Dallas, Texas
Prior Experience
Of Counsel, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, 2021–2023
