Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP is pleased to announce that Kristina Kopf Thomas has joined the firm’s Real Estate Practice Group as a partner in the Atlanta office. Prior to joining Sutherland, Ms. Thomas was a partner at King & Spalding LLP.
Ms. Thomas is a commercial real estate and fund formation attorney with more than 13 years of experience working with real estate industry clients on a broad spectrum of transactions. Ms. Thomas has a strong background in the structuring and formation of private equity real estate investment funds and joint ventures for the acquisition, operation and development of real estate assets. She also has extensive experience advising real estate clients in acquiring, financing, developing and selling all types of real estate assets.
“We continue to build our practices by attracting top practitioners,” said Sutherland Managing PartnerMark D. Wasserman. “With Kristina’s impressive background serving as the lead attorney in some of the most noteworthy real estate and private equity transactions of the last few years, we are thrilled and confident that her skill set will add extraordinary depth and further enhance the scope and strength of Sutherland’s real estate client service capabilities.”
Over the years, Ms. Thomas has represented real estate industry clients, including real estate investment funds and joint ventures, national and regional developers of retail, office and multifamily projects, publicly traded real estate investment trusts (REITs), institutional investors and investment management institutions in a wide range of real estate industry-focused transactions.
Most recently, she has been the lead attorney in some of the largest real estate transactions involving multi-billion-dollar acquisitions, dispositions and recapitalizations and the formation of closed-ended and open-ended private equity real estate investment funds.
“Kristina coming on board continues to bolster our real estate capabilities not only in the Southeast, but also across the nation,” said Partner Victor P. Haley, leader of Sutherland’s Real Estate Practice Group. “Her wealth of experience across a broad range of significant real estate, fund formation and private equity transactions provide a tremendous resource to our clients.”
Sutherland’s Real Estate Practice Group provides a comprehensive understanding of the market, the economics of our clients’ industries and the legal issues that affect them. Bringing together transactional real estate and finance attorneys, Sutherland manages diverse deals, encompassing niche areas such as timber acquisition, hospitality, complex real estate finance including multi-tranche mezzanine debt, and data center development and leasing.
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