Vanessa Gomez is an Associate in the real estate division of Kirkland & Ellis LLP where her practice focuses on acquisitions, dispositions, financings and joint ventures for institutional investors, owners and developers. Prior to Kirkland, Vanessa was an associate at Proskauer Rose. She was an extern for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in 2017 and was employed at various financial institutions in New York and California before receiving her law degree from UC Irvine. Vanessa completed her undergraduate work at Princeton University.