Shobi Khan joined Kennedy in the fall of 2007 and is the Chief Investment Officer.
He is directly responsible for acquisition activity and chair’s Kennedy’s Investment
Committee. Kennedy Associates is a private real estate investment advisor with
approximately $9 billion assets under management to separate account clients and
equity real estate funds.
Mr. Khan comes to Kennedy after 11 years with Equity Office Properties Trust (“EOP”)
where most recently he served as Senior Vice President of Investments. At EOP he was
responsible for new acquisitions in the Eastern U.S., joint ventures, REIT mergers
and acquisitions, international opportunities, and other corporate transactions. Mr.
Khan led the underwriting of the three largest office REIT mergers ($16 billion)
including EOP’s merger with Beacon, Cornerstone, and Spieker Properties. In addition,
Mr. Khan was involved with EOP’s $39 billion sale to Blackstone in February 2007,
at the time the largest leveraged buyout in U.S. business history. He also completed
over $3 billion of single/portfolio acquisitions, developments, dispositions, and
joint venture transactions. Mr. Khan has also spent portions of his career in asset
management and development.
Prior to joining EOP in 1996, Mr. Khan served with Katz Hollis, Inc. in Los Angeles,
where he completed more than $5 billion in tax allocation bond transactions and
public/private-financing assignments throughout the United States. Before joining
Katz Hollis, he was with Arthur Andersen in San Francisco where he was responsible
for various real estate consulting engagements.
Mr. Khan is a member of the Urban Land Institute. He holds an MBA from the University
of Southern California, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of California,
Berkeley.
To contact Shobi S. Khan by email, please send to ShobiK@kennedyusa.com.