Stephen Tomlinson

Stephen Tomlinson is a partner in the real estate group in the New York office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Tomlinson's practice focuses on business transactions in the real estate and hospitality industries for real estate private equity sponsors, real estate investment trusts ("REITs"), institutional investors and real estate operating companies engaged in acquisitions and dispositions, operating company and multi-investor fund formations and investments, and restructurings relating to each of the foregoing. Tomlinson is resident in the Firm's New York office. Clients with whom Steve regularly works include Archstone, Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, LaSalle Investment Management, Inc., Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners, Walton Street Capital, and GEM Realty Capital. In November 2011, Tomlinson was named a Real Estate MVP by Law360 for his work on Anglo Irish Bank's sale of its $9.5 billion U.S. commercial property loan portfolio. Recommended by clients as a "standout lawyer who does a great job ... at the pinnacle of transaction deals," Tomlinson has been consistently recognized as one ofAmerica's Leading Lawyers for Business in Real Estate by Chambers USA and by Who's Who Legal in the Real Estate chapter. He has been recognized as an Illinois Super Lawyer since 2005 and was also named in New York Super Lawyers in 2011. He is recommended by the Practical Law Company in their Which Lawyer? guide for Real Estate in New York, and has been repeatedly named to the Legal 500 where he is recognized as 'a top practitioner in a range of niches'.