Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day.
You will definitely see more hires. You hear a lot about the talent war, and we plan to play to win. We are always in the market for top-level talent.
— Michelle Kelban, a New York-based real estate partner at Kirkland & Ellis, in comments given to Bloomberg Law, concerning the firm’s increase in hiring across its real assets practice group, a combination of Kirkland’s real estate practice with its infrastructure, energy and minerals/mining teams. Real estate partners are in high demand thanks to the proliferation of AI data centers.
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