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Gibbs Fryer is a partner in King & Spalding’s Real Estate and Private Funds practices. His practice focuses on real estate capital markets, including representations of real estate operating companies, real estate investment trusts, and private equity sponsors and institutional lenders. Gibbs advises clients on a wide array of corporate real estate matters, including fund formations and offerings, joint venture formations, debt financings, and negotiations of secondary transactions.

Gibbs has experience in a broad range of private equity, leverage finance, and real estate transactions and related areas including mergers & acquisitions, including public and private company mergers, leveraged buyouts, joint ventures, equity offerings, financings and fund formations.

Prior to returning to King & Spalding, Gibbs was a founding partner of Evergreen Medical Properties, a real estate company focused on the ownership and operation of healthcare real estate assets across the United States, and a partner of Iron Tree Capital Partners, a boutique real estate private equity firmed focused on corporate investments in real estate operating companies. He also worked in the New York City office of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP and spent time seconded to J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. in New York, working in their global investment bank primarily on syndicated leverage finance related matters.

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Credentials

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law

B.A., University of Virginia

Georgia

New York

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In the News · Source: Law360 Real Estate Authority, The Deal, Global Legal Chronicle and citybiz

July 30, 2023
Gibbs Fryer, Tony Rothermel, Spencer Johnson and Josh Kamin advise Carroll on its acquisition by The RMR Group

In the News · Source: Law360 Pulse, Attorney at Law Magazine, Bloomberg Law, The Daily Docket, Private Funds CFO, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The National Law Journal

February 1, 2023
Private funds and real estate partner Gibbs Fryer rejoins the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in Atlanta

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Matters

Representation of Americold Realty Trust in connection with its initial public offering.

Representation of Prologis in connection with the restructuring and growth of their open end U.S. Logistics Fund

Representation of Clarion Partners, LLC, in connection with the formation of Clarion Gables Multifamily Trust, L.P., a multibillion dollar open-end core-plus multifamily fund.

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Representation of Americold Realty Trust in connection with its initial public offering.

Representation of Prologis in connection with the restructuring and growth of their open end U.S. Logistics Fund

Representation of Clarion Partners, LLC, in connection with the formation of Clarion Gables Multifamily Trust, L.P., a multibillion dollar open-end core-plus multifamily fund.

Representation of Americold Realty Trust in connection with its incurrence of a $860 million secured credit facility, which consisted of a $710 million term loan facility and a $150 million revolving credit facility.

Representation of Jamestown Properties in connection with various financing and acquisition transactions.

Representation of The Carroll Organization in connection with multifamily fund offerings.

Representation of Deka Bank in connection with various mortgage financing transactions.

Representation of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in connection with various mortgage financings.

News

In the News · Source: Law360 Real Estate Authority, The Deal, Global Legal Chronicle and citybiz

July 30, 2023
Gibbs Fryer, Tony Rothermel, Spencer Johnson and Josh Kamin advise Carroll on its acquisition by The RMR Group

In the News · Source: Law360 Pulse, Attorney at Law Magazine, Bloomberg Law, The Daily Docket, Private Funds CFO, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The National Law Journal

February 1, 2023
Private funds and real estate partner Gibbs Fryer rejoins the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in Atlanta

View all

Matters

Representation of Americold Realty Trust in connection with its initial public offering.

Representation of Prologis in connection with the restructuring and growth of their open end U.S. Logistics Fund

Representation of Clarion Partners, LLC, in connection with the formation of Clarion Gables Multifamily Trust, L.P., a multibillion dollar open-end core-plus multifamily fund.

See more

Close

Matters

Representation of Americold Realty Trust in connection with its initial public offering.

Representation of Prologis in connection with the restructuring and growth of their open end U.S. Logistics Fund

Representation of Clarion Partners, LLC, in connection with the formation of Clarion Gables Multifamily Trust, L.P., a multibillion dollar open-end core-plus multifamily fund.

Representation of Americold Realty Trust in connection with its incurrence of a $860 million secured credit facility, which consisted of a $710 million term loan facility and a $150 million revolving credit facility.

Representation of Jamestown Properties in connection with various financing and acquisition transactions.

Representation of The Carroll Organization in connection with multifamily fund offerings.

Representation of Deka Bank in connection with various mortgage financing transactions.

Representation of Metropolitan Life Insurance Company in connection with various mortgage financings.

News

In the News · Source: Law360 Real Estate Authority, The Deal, Global Legal Chronicle and citybiz

July 30, 2023
Gibbs Fryer, Tony Rothermel, Spencer Johnson and Josh Kamin advise Carroll on its acquisition by The RMR Group

In the News · Source: Law360 Pulse, Attorney at Law Magazine, Bloomberg Law, The Daily Docket, Private Funds CFO, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and The National Law Journal

February 1, 2023
Private funds and real estate partner Gibbs Fryer rejoins the firm’s Corporate, Finance and Investments practice group in Atlanta

View all

Credentials

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law

B.A., University of Virginia

Georgia

New York