Kitan O. Ajanaku

• Counsel to J.P. Morgan Real Estate Income Trust in its $5 billion initial public offering.
• Counsel to Nuveen Global Cities REIT in its $5 billion follow-on offering.
• Counsel to RREEF Property Trust, an NAV REIT, in its $2 billion third follow-on offering.
• Counsel to a private REIT formed to acquire specialized commercial and industrial real estate assets.
• Counsel to a closed-end commercial real estate fund treated as a business development company under the ’40 Act.
• Counsel to registered investment companies, and their boards or investment advisers, on organization, registration, disclosure, compliance, and operational issues.
• Counsel to interval funds in registering their initial public offerings and ongoing regulatory and compliance matters.
• Counsel to non-listed BDCs in their blue sky state registrations.
• Represented registered 1940 Act investment funds on the application for and granting of co-investment exemptive orders by the SEC.

Kitan Ajanaku is an associate in Alston & Bird’s Financial Services & Products Group and a member of the firm’s REITs & Real Estate Funds Team. She focuses her practice on securities transactions, including public and private offerings, with a specific emphasis on REITs and other alternative investment vehicles. She also regularly advises boards of directors on corporate governance issues.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

• Georgia State University (J.D., 2018)
• Georgia State University (B.S., 2015)

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