Jeremy Kenley advises clients on a full spectrum of real estate private equity matters, focusing on complex, cross-border transactions in the UK, Europe, and Asia.

Jeremy draws on decades of experience, both in-house and in private practice, to guide private equity sponsors and investors through a range of high-stakes transactions involving:

  • Asset and debt acquisitions
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Joint ventures
  • Co-investment deals and structures
  • Management equity plans

A trusted strategic advisor, Jeremy regularly helps long-term clients navigate evolving real estate mandates to enhance their market positioning. 

Before joining Latham, he served on the private equity real estate practice at another global law firm. He was also previously European general counsel for a private equity real estate group and global real estate counsel for a leading asset management firm.

Jeremy’s experience includes advising:

  • Brookfield Asset Management on:
    • Establishing a programmatic joint venture to acquire a portfolio of multi-family and single-family homes in the UK*
    • The sale of Livensa Living, Brookfield’s Iberian purpose-built student accommodation platform*
    • Acquiring, and ongoing asset management in respect of, Center Parcs*
    • A programmatic joint venture to acquire logistics and industrial assets across Central and Eastern Europe*
    • Acquiring a portfolio of boutique hotels across Europe*
    • A multi-tied joint venture to acquire an iconic London office building*
    • An acquisition and joint venture arrangement related to 19 student housing portfolios in Spain and Portugal*
    • Acquiring a controlling interest in a group of French companies comprising a student housing business, a hotel apartment operator business, and a construction and developer business*
    • A programmatic joint venture investing in French logistics and industrial assets*
  • Hackman Capital Partners on multiple European joint ventures, including acquiring interests in film studios in the UK*
  • KKR’s real estate funds on a programmatic joint venture for European hotels and hospitality assets*
  • Apollo Global Management on:
    • Atlantic Leaf’s take-private*
    • Selling a majority of Atlantic Leaf’s portfolio to third-party logistics investors*
  • Centerbridge on:
    • An acquisition and joint venture arrangement for a portfolio of boutique hotels in Belgium and Holland*
    • Acquiring portfolio logistics assets in Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Poland, and Hungary*
  • Realty Income on acquiring a portfolio of supermarkets and other UK commercial properties*
  • Related Argent on:
    • A joint venture for the first major phase of an £8 billion development in the UK*
    • A joint venture for a build-to-rent (BTR) development in the UK*
  • Tishman Speyer on acquiring the Q207 building in Berlin, in a co-investment between Tishman Speyer, an Asian sovereign wealth fund, and a Canadian pension fund*

*Matter handled prior to joining Latham

Bar Qualification

  • England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

  • LPC, The College of Law, 1994
    with distinction
  • LLB, University of Manchester, 1993
    with honors