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 real asset transactions. His practice focuses on capital raising across real estate and the wider real asset class, including the 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 assets.
He also regularly advises on real estate fund-adjacent and 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 (2024-2026), 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*:
- Advising a sovereign wealth fund in connection with its commitments across two real estate strategies managed by ADD Capital and focused primarily on the European living sector.
- CBRE Investment Management:
- the formation of CBRE Real Estate Partners 2, a global real estate secondaries fund raising $1.62 billion
- the launch of Terryn, alongside NW1 Partners and URBZ Capital, a European industrial outdoor storage management platform backed by €300 million of capital commitments
- a GP-led secondary transaction in connection with the Tritax London Logistics Fund, a Greater London‑focused logistics platform
- the recapitalisation of Värde Partners’ ownership stake in Vía Célere, valuing the Spanish residential developer at nearly €1 billion
- an investment into NW1 Partners and URBZ Capital's Dutch Industrial Outdoor Storage (IOS) vehicle
- a €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
- a 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
- 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
- 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)
- Greystar Real Estate Partners:
- the formation of Greystar Asia Pacific, a Singapore‑based joint venture with Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets and APG to establish and manage Asia‑Pacific rental housing investment vehicles
- the formation of Greystar China Multifamily Venture I LP, a Singapore‑based fund with initial capital commitments of $450 million
- the formation of Greystar Equity Partners Asia Pacific Fund, a value-added real estate fund focused on rental housing and urban living across the Asia-Pacific region.
- 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
- 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
- Henley Investment Management:
- the formation of a joint venture to acquire and develop a £300 million mixed‑use residential and logistics scheme in Fulham, London
- the formation of a joint venture with Invesco Real Estate to acquire Vector House, a prime office building in central Amsterdam
- Logistics Capital Partners on the formation of a joint venture with Invesco Real Estate to acquire and develop Veridion Park in Thamesmead, London
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Lazard Global Sustainable Private Infrastructure Fund:
- the acquisition of a 50% stake in Shawton Energy Limited, a solar PV developer, installer and operator supplying renewable energy to commercial and industrial customers
- the acquisition of DBE Energy, the owner and operator of an anaerobic digestion plant in Surrey producing renewable gas for supply to the National Grid
- MARK Capital on the €1.585 billion sale of its pan‑European last‑mile logistics platform, Crossbay, to Prologis
- Morgan Stanely Real Estate on the formation of a joint venture with Flint Housing to scale a social housing investment platform delivering affordable homes across England
- 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
- 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
*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