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 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 a joint venture in the drafting, negotiating, and closing of the disposition and corporate structuring of a boutique hotel in Charlotte, NC.

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.

Before joining the firm, Kitan received her J.D. from the Georgia State University College of Law, where she was elected to the order of the coif and was a member of the Georgia State University Law Review. She received her B.A. in psychology from Georgia State University, where she was a member of the Georgia State University Division I Volleyball Team.

Bar Admissions

• Georgia

Education

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

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