Victoria Shusterman is a real estate partner in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Victoria focuses her practice on commercial real estate finance. Her work includes representing credit funds, private equity, domestic and foreign commercial banks and insurance companies in commercial real estate financing transactions, including mortgage and mezzanine financings, preferred equity investments, permanent and bridge loan originations, construction loans, loan participations, syndications including loan sales and other co-lender arrangements; workouts and restructurings. She has experience representing clients in financing transactions across a variety of asset types, including industrial, mixed-use, hotel, multi-family, retail and office properties throughout the United States.
Victoria is ranked as a leading New York real estate finance practitioner by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and notes that “she is outstanding counsel,” a “powerhouse who is tireless, dedicated, practical and beloved by her clients” and a “problem-solver who gets the deal done in a responsible way.” In addition, she is recognized as a leading real estate attorney by The Best Lawyers in America.
Victoria received her Juris Doctor in 1998 from Washington University School of Law, where she served as Notes Editor of the Washington University Law Review.
