Kevin M. Ehrhart, P.C.

Partner Real Estate

Los Angeles – Century City

Kevin M. Ehrhart, P.C.

Practices

Overview

He has superb business judgment and can assess complex situations to formulate a clear path to successful outcomes. - Chambers USA

Kevin represents private equity sponsors and others in all matters relating to their real estate investments and strategies. He focuses on capital investment directed to real estate assets and real estate operating companies, debt financings within all segments of the capital stack, joint ventures, property and operating company acquisitions. Kevin’s practice has an emphasis on the acquisition and disposition of industrial and logistics related assets, data centers, self-storage, office and multifamily assets.

Kevin regularly advises foreign and domestic clients with respect to the formation and capitalization of programmatic and single-asset joint ventures. Kevin also represents clients in connection with recapitalization of real estate platforms, operating companies and assets, and he works closely with Golden Flag’s real estate investment funds team in connection with the formation of real estate investment funds and their related operations.

Kevin has been recognized by The Legal 500 U.S. for his Real Estate work, and by Chambers USA each year since 2006. In the 2024 edition of Chambers USA, a client noted “Kevin has knowledge on any aspect of a transaction and very sharp legal skills.” In previous editions of Chambers USA, sources commented that “Kevin is phenomenal – he has a great combination of deep knowledge and transactional expertise and combines creativity with sharp legal skills,” “[h]e is extremely easy to work with, very detailed and commercial in his approach,” “he has superb business judgment and can assess complex situations to formulate a clear path to successful outcomes” and “[h]e’ll add value for his clients.” Kevin was recognized by The Daily Journal as one of California’s “Top 30 Real Estate Attorneys” and was honored by the Los Angeles Bar Association’s Real Estate Section as its “Young Lawyer of the Year” in 2006. In 2010, Kevin was recognized as one of the country’s “Top 40 Real Estate Professionals” by Real Estate Forum.

Kevin is actively involved in many different community and charitable service organizations, including serving on the Board of Regents of Georgetown University, the Board of Directors of Flintridge Sacred Heart High School and the Physical Resources Committee at Loyola High School.

Notable transaction since joining Golden Flag, include:  

  • CyrusOne on a $7.9 billion U.S. warehouse facility and $1.8 billion revolving credit facility, bringing the total debt capital raised to approximately $9.7 billion.

  • GLP Pte Ltd in the $18.7 billion sale of its U.S. logistics business to Blackstone, the largest-ever private real estate transaction globally.

  • GLP Capital Partners in connection with its acquisition and financing of a $1+ billion portfolio of over 20 industrial properties located across eight states.

  • GLP Capital Partners in connection with its acquisition of a $350+ million portfolio of industrial properties located in Indiana, Nevada and Texas.

  • Generate Capital, PBC on its sale of two operational data centers in Granbury, Texas and Kearney, Nebraska to Marathon Digital Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MARA).

  • Private real estate investment group in its $250 million acquisition of more than 2,200 acres of vacant land in Nevada to be developed into data centers.

  • Private investment management firm in connection with $2 billion sale of portfolio of multifamily assets throughout the southeast US.

  • Represented global alternative asset management firm in connection with $260 million sale of industrial property in Washington.

  • Private equity fund in connection with its $600+ million acquisition of an office complex located in El Segundo, California.

  • Private equity fund in connection with its $460+ million acquisition of a 1 million-square-foot trophy office building located in Downtown Los Angeles, California.

  • Private equity fund in connection with its $170+ million acquisition of an office complex located in El Segundo, California.

  • Private equity fund in connection with its $135+ million disposition of land entitled for development of logistics and related product.

  • Privately held real estate company in connection with multiple programmatic joint ventures for the development and acquisition of self-storage projects throughout the United States.

  • Private equity fund in connection with its $100+ million acquisition and financing of an office building located in Torrance, California.

  • U.S. based hedge fund in connection with its acquisition of an investment advisor and its related funds.

  • China-based investment company in connection with the formation of various joint ventures for the development of multifamily and student housing throughout the United States.

  • Publicly-traded U.S. REIT in connection with the $140 million disposition of two Marriott hotels located in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

  • Private equity investment manager in connection with the acquisition and development of a 150-unit single family attached housing project in Salt Lake City, Utah.

  • Private equity investment manager in connection with the acquisition and development of a 110-unit single family attached housing project in Georgetown, Texas.

  • Private equity fund and its joint venture partner in connection with the disposition of several first-class commercial office parks located throughout Phoenix, Arizona.

  • Publicly-traded U.S. REIT in connection with the disposition of a Marriott hotel located in Park City, Utah.

  • Privately held real estate investment company in connection with the acquisition and financing of multiple office buildings located in western U.S.

Notable transactions prior to joining Golden Flag, include:

  • Privately held real estate company and its institutional investment partner in connection with the development and $475 million sale of a trophy mixed use project in the Playa Vista submarket of Los Angeles.

  • Privately held real estate investment firm in connection with its $330+ million acquisition and financing of a 1.2 million sf trophy office building in Downtown Los Angeles.

  • Privately held real estate investment firm in connection with its $200+ million acquisition and financing of a 1.2 million sf trophy office building in Philadelphia.

  • Privately held real estate company and its partners in connection with the acquisition, development and eventual $285 million sale of an office project in the Playa Vista submarket of Los Angeles.

  • Privately held real estate company and a U.S. private equity fund in connection with the acquisition, financing, and leaseback of a portfolio of 10 office buildings located throughout Southern California.

  • U.S. private equity fund and its operating partner in connection with the $130 million acquisition of a trophy office building in Downtown Los Angeles.

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Recognition

Lawdragon named Kevin to its 2024 list of “500 Leading Global Real Estate Lawyers.”

The Los Angeles Business Journal named Kevin Ehrhart to its 2024 list of the “Top 100 Lawyers.”

Kevin was recognized in Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business from 2015–2024 for Real Estate.

Sources praise Kevin for his “great strategic advice,” noting that “he is diligent, efficient and good at pulling the deal together.” – Chambers USA, 2017

Widely regarded as “a fabulous real estate attorney” with “great breadth and depth of experience” and “a creative problem solver.” – Chambers USA, 2016

Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 1997California

Education

  • University of Southern California, Gould School of LawJ.D.1997
  • Georgetown University Walsh School of Foreign ServiceB.S.F.S.1994