Jonathan A. Schechter
Jonathan Schechter is a partner in the Real Estate group of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He advises both U.S. and non-U.S. clients with respect to a wide range of domestic and international real estate-related transactions. Jonathan has extensive experience representing private equity investors in connection with the formation of joint ventures and acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, financings and development of real estate and real estate-related assets.
Chambers USA, America’s Leading Lawyers for Business has recognized Jonathan as a leading lawyer for Real Estate: Corporate in its 2012–2022 editions, with clients praising him for his “brilliant legal mind,” noting that he is “very capable, smart, resourceful and hard-working” as well as “incredibly knowledgeable, and helpful in thinking through solutions to problems.” The Legal 500 U.S. has listed Jonathan as a leading lawyer every year since 2007 and has described him as a lawyer who “thinks outside the box.”
New York, New York 10022
