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Jake Harris is a Senior Associate in the Atlanta office of King & Spalding and a member of the firm’s Real Estate and Funds practice group. Jake's practice focuses on domestic and multinational joint venture formations, commercial real estate transactions, fund formation and offerings, secondary transactions as well as general corporate matters for public and private companies and private equity funds, including SEC regulatory compliance matters. Jake has experience advising institutional investor clients in connection with investments in real estate and commingled investment vehicles, including funds, co-investments and separately managed accounts.
Jake has served as a member of the Firmwide Associates Committee and Atlanta Associates Committee. Jake earned his J.D., with high honors, from the Emory University School of Law, where he served as a Managing Editor of the Emory Law Journal, and his M.B.A. from the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University, where he served as a board member of the Real Estate Private Equity Board. In addition, he earned a Certificate in Transactional Law and served as a student attorney in the Turner Environmental Law Clinic. Jake earned his B.B.A. in Finance, magna cum laude, from the University of Georgia.
J.D., Emory University School of Law, high honors
M.B.A., Emory University, Dean's List
B.B.A., University of Georgia, Magna Cum Laude
Georgia
Suntex-Centerbridge Joint Venture. Advised Suntex Marina Investors, LLC in respect of the establishment of a joint venture backed by Centerbridge-affiliated funds and global institutional investors to acquire over $1.25 billion in new marinas across the United States.
Dream Industrial REIT CAD$7 Billion Joint Venture. Advised Dream Industrial REIT (TSX: DIR.UN) in the formation of a CAD$7 billion joint venture with a leading global sovereign wealth fund. The joint venture was formed to acquire Summit Industrial Income REIT and to pursue programmatic acquisitions and developments of other industrial real estate. Also advised Dream Asset Management Corporation in respect of certain services to be provided to the joint venture and its assets.
Westplan Investors Partial Sale of Platform. Advised Westplan Investors in respect of the sale of interests in its real estate operating platform, which develops and acquires multifamily apartment communities in the southeast U.S. primarily for Dutch high net worth and family office investors, to Brooks Capital Management and HB Management and their respective principals.
See moreSuntex-Centerbridge Joint Venture. Advised Suntex Marina Investors, LLC in respect of the establishment of a joint venture backed by Centerbridge-affiliated funds and global institutional investors to acquire over $1.25 billion in new marinas across the United States.
Dream Industrial REIT CAD$7 Billion Joint Venture. Advised Dream Industrial REIT (TSX: DIR.UN) in the formation of a CAD$7 billion joint venture with a leading global sovereign wealth fund. The joint venture was formed to acquire Summit Industrial Income REIT and to pursue programmatic acquisitions and developments of other industrial real estate. Also advised Dream Asset Management Corporation in respect of certain services to be provided to the joint venture and its assets.
Westplan Investors Partial Sale of Platform. Advised Westplan Investors in respect of the sale of interests in its real estate operating platform, which develops and acquires multifamily apartment communities in the southeast U.S. primarily for Dutch high net worth and family office investors, to Brooks Capital Management and HB Management and their respective principals.
See moreJ.D., Emory University School of Law, high honors
M.B.A., Emory University, Dean's List
B.B.A., University of Georgia, Magna Cum Laude
Georgia