Kirkland Advises TPG Real Estate on Acquisition of Cinespace Studios
Kirkland & Ellis advised TPG Real Estate Partners ("TREP"), the dedicated real estate equity investment platform of alternative asset firm TPG, on its acquisition of Cinespace Studios in Chicago and Toronto (“Cinespace”). Cinespace is the second largest independent sound stage platform in North America with best-in-class studio campuses. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The Kirkland team was led by real estate partners Andrew Small, Al Stemp, Rachel Brown, Jessica Schultz and Jeff Rheeling and associates David Arbus, Tiffany Sabbah, Phillip Kim, Mark Lipschultz, Adamantia Giannakis, Peter Baum, Seth Berliner, Jennifer Aronsohn, Lizbeth Cordova, Vanessa Gomez and Austin Brown, corporate partner Rick Madden and associate Alex Blaznik, executive compensation partner Jack Stratton and associate Karsten Busby, tax partners Mike Beinus, Justin Barbosa and Meredith Levy and associate Ashley Flor, government, regulatory & internal investigations partners Kim Nemirow, Asheesh Goel, Mark Filip and Nick Niles, investment funds partners Brett Saltzman, Kelly Ryan and Kevin Pavloski and associates Omotunde Okesanya, Genevieve Carter, Jordan Keeton, Michael Kuntz and Joshua Morgan, employee benefits partner Liz Dyer, technology & IP transactions partners Seth Traxler, Adam Petravicius and Matt Darch, transactional liability insurance partner Anna Geml, environmental transactions partner Chris Semonsen, employee benefits partner Matthew Antinossi and associate Chris Chase, and employment and labor partner Michael Schulman and associate Alexander Flynn-Tabloff.
