Eric Piesner

Eric is a highly accomplished practitioner with more than 25 years of experience in guiding clients through all stages of the real estate investment cycle, including fund formation and restructuring, real estate financing, strategic M&A, private equity and multi-investor club deals, development, dispositions, and exits.

He has represented companies in all major real estate asset classes – particularly hotel/resort and industrial properties – worldwide, including the United States, Japan, China, India, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, Brazil, and Hong Kong.

• GLP Pte. Ltd. in its US$11.64 billion privatization, the largest-ever private equity buyout of an Asian company by enterprise value. (ALB SE Asia Law Awards 2018: M&A Deal of the Year (Premium); The Asia Legal Awards 2018: M&A Deal of the Year: Southeast Asia 2017 Global PERE Awards: Deal of the Year, Asia; FinanceAsia’s 2017 Deal of the Year and Best Leveraged Finance Deal).
• IndoSpace on the formation of IndoSpace Core, its US$1.2 billion joint venture with Canada Pension Plan Investment Board that will focus on acquiring and developing logistics facilities in India.
• GLP on the acquisition of a US$4.55 billion U.S. logistics portfolio from Industrial Income Trust making it the second-largest logistics property owner and operator in the United States within a year of market entry.
• GLP on the establishment of CLF II, US$7 billion infrastructure fund, the largest logistics infrastructure fund based in China. CLF II is more than double the size of US$3 billion CLF I, the world’s largest China-focused logistics fund to date in 2014. We also represented GLP in the formation of CLF I.
• Host Hotels & Resorts in connection with its hotel acquisition and development work in Asia, including projects in India and Australia.

• Investment funds
• M&A
• Private equity
• Private equity funds
• Real estate funds

• Investment management
• Real estate

• Colby College, B.A., 1988; University of Hawaii, William S. Richardson School of Law, J.D., 1992; University of Hawaii, M.A., 1993