Chris Slack is a partner in the London office of Gibson Dunn and a member of the Real Estate Practice Group, working closely with the firm’s Investment Funds Practice Group.
Chris has extensive experience advising global clients on complex cross‑border real estate private equity transactions. His practice focuses on real estate capital raising, including the structuring, formation, and operation of global and pan-regional funds, co-investment structures, programmatic and strategic joint ventures, separately managed accounts, and a wide range of primary and secondary transactions (including GP-led secondaries transactions) and liquidity solutions involving real estate assets. He also regularly advises on asset management M&A, including GP (general partner) stake and other platform transactions.
Chris is recognised as a “Next Generation Partner” for Real Estate Funds in The Legal 500 2024, with clients describing him as “a highly knowledgeable and creative solicitor who is quick to identify solutions to complex commercial issues.”
Chris received an LL.B. with First Class Honours from the University of Warwick in 2011. He completed the Legal Practice Course with Distinction at BPP Law School, London, in 2012. He is admitted to practice in England and Wales.
Prior to joining Gibson Dunn, Chris was a partner at an international law firm in London and spent five years practising in its Singapore office where he was recognised as a “Rising Star” for Corporate and M&A: Foreign Firms in The Legal 500 APAC 2022, where clients noted his “outstanding, solution‑driven and efficient work.”
Representative Experience*:
- Advised CBRE Investment Management on the final close of CBRE Real Estate Partners 2, a global real estate secondaries fund raising $1.62 billion in capital commitments, together with a related subscription credit facility
- Advised CBRE Investment Management on the launch, alongside NW1 Partners and URBZ Capital, of a new European industrial outdoor storage management platform backed by €300 million of capital commitments
- Advised Logistics Capital Partners on the formation of a joint venture with Invesco Real Estate to acquire and develop Veridion Park in Thamesmead, London, delivering approximately 800,000 sq ft of urban logistics space
- Advised CBRE Investment Management on behalf of discretionary fund vehicles and client mandates on a £200 million investment in the Tritax London Logistics Fund, a Greater London‑focused logistics platform
- Advised CBRE Investment Management on the recapitalisation of Värde Partners’ ownership stake in Vía Célere, valuing the Spanish residential developer at nearly €1 billion
- Advised Madison International Realty on the acquisition of a 24.5% stake in Puma Property Finance, alongside a significant cornerstone commitment to support the launch of Puma’s institutional credit fund series
- Advised Redevco on the establishment of its pan‑European real estate debt platform, including its first loan investment relating to an office‑led development in the City of London
- Advised CBRE Investment Management in connection with an investment into NW1 Partners and URBZ Capital's Dutch Industrial Outdoor Storage (IOS) vehicle
- Advised CBRE Investment Management in the €150 million cornerstone investment in Verdion European Logistics Fund 2, a closed-end value-add real estate venture which targets repositioning assets in established Northern European logistics locations
- Advised Henley Investment Management on the formation of a joint venture to acquire and develop a £300 million mixed‑use residential and logistics scheme in Fulham, London
- Advised a CBRE Investment Management–managed real estate investment fund on its cornerstone investment in a €150 million vehicle formed by Westwind Capital to acquire a portfolio of modern private rented sector multifamily assets across London and its commuter suburbs
- Advised Cushman & Wakefield on the formation of a 50:50 joint venture with Nuvama Asset Management to establish a new real estate investment management platform in India
- Advised Lazard Asset Management on the acquisition by Lazard Global Sustainable Private Infrastructure Fund of a 50% stake in Shawton Energy Limited, a solar PV developer, installer and operator supplying renewable energy to commercial and industrial customers
- Advised Henderson Park Real Estate Fund I on the disposal of its stake in the iconic Westin Paris‑Vendôme hotel to its joint venture partner, Dubai Holding, having previously advised on the acquisition of the hotel and the formation of the joint venture
- Advised Henley Investment Management Limited on the formation of a joint venture with Invesco Real Estate to acquire Vector House, a prime office building in central Amsterdam, for €30 million
- Advised Lazard Asset Management on the Lazard Global Sustainable Private Infrastructure team’s inaugural investment in DBE Energy, the owner and operator of an anaerobic digestion plant in Surrey producing renewable gas for supply to the National Grid
- Advised MARK Capital on the €1.585 billion sale of its pan‑European last‑mile logistics platform, Crossbay, to Prologis
- Advised investment funds managed by an affiliate of MSREF Real Estate Advisor on the formation of a joint venture with Flint Housing to scale a social housing investment platform delivering affordable homes across England
- Advised PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited on its subsidiary’s acquisition of a 20% participating interest in Oman’s Block 61 gas project from BP, one of the largest gas developments in the Middle East
- Advised PTT Exploration and Production Public Company Limited on its subsidiary’s $2.127 billion acquisition of Murphy Oil Corporation’s Malaysian upstream oil and gas business, the largest upstream transaction in Southeast Asia in five years
- Advised The Procter & Gamble Company on its investment as a limited partner in The Ocean Fund, a Singapore‑based fund focused on scaling waste reduction and recycling initiatives across South and Southeast Asia
- Advised Greystar Real Estate Partners on the formation of Greystar Asia Pacific, a Singapore‑based joint venture with MIRA Real Estate and APG to establish and manage Asia‑Pacific rental housing investment vehicles
- Advised Greystar Asia Pacific on the formation of Greystar China Multifamily Venture I LP, a Singapore‑based fund with initial capital commitments of $450 million
- Advised Ancora Capital Management on the formation and closing of Ancora Residential Fund LP, a Singapore‑based fund investing in apartment development projects in Indonesia
- Advised LaSalle Investment Management on the acquisition of Aviva Investors’ $7 billion real estate multi‑manager business and full ownership of the management of the €1.7 billion Encore+ pan‑European fund
- Advised Hansteen Holdings on the €1.28 billion disposal of its German and Dutch property portfolios and real estate management business to entities advised by affiliates of Blackstone and M7 Real Estate
- Advised ESR on the sale of its majority interest in Venn Partners, a specialist investment manager of private credit strategies within the UK residential sector, to Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited (USS)
*Some of these representations occurred prior to Chris’s association with Gibson Dunn.
Capabilities
Credentials
Education:
- BPP Law School - 2012 Legal Practice Course with Distinction
- University of Warwick - 2011 LL.B. (First Class Hons)
Admissions:
- England & Wales – Solicitor