Kirkland Adds Real Estate Attorneys from Paul Hastings, Jones Day

Kirkland & Ellis is bolstering its real estate ranks this summer.

Kirkland is adding Robert M. Keane Jr. from the Los Angeles office of Paul Hastings, where he was vice chair of the firm’s real estate practice. He’ll be in downtown Los Angeles as a partner in Kirkland’s real estate practice group.

The firm in recent weeks also hired Andrew Van Noord, a real estate capital markets specialist from Jones Day’s Dallas office, to be a partner there. And Albert W. Stemp joined in Los Angeles in June as a real estate practice partner.

Jeffrey C. Hammes, chairman of Kirkland’s ...