Steve Tomlinson

Managing Director

For more than 40 years, Steve Tomlinson was a Partner with Kirkland & Ellis. His practice focused private equity on business transactions in the real estate and hospitality industries. His clients included real estate private equity sponsors, sovereign and other non-U.S. investors and real estate operating companies that are engaged in a wide variety of real estate transactions, including acquisitions and divestitures, fund formations and investments.

Mr. Tomlinson is one of the partners leading K&E’s initiatives in the area of Opportunity Zone investing and is currently devoting substantial time to structuring and executing investment vehicles intended to capture Opportunity Zone benefits for investors across a variety of real estate, infrastructure and operating business strategies.

Mr. Tomlinson was named a Real Estate MVP by Law360 for his work on Anglo Irish Bank’s sale of its $9.5 billion U.S. commercial property loan portfolio and has been consistently recognized as one of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in Real Estate by Chambers USA and by Who’s Who Legal in the Real Estate chapter. Mr. Tomlinson has been recognized as an Illinois Super Lawyer since 2005 and was also named in New York Super Lawyers every year since 2011.