Nicole Gillikin

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ABOUT NICOLE GILLIKIN

Nicole Gillikin is a Managing Director on the Real Estate tax team in the Dallas office of PwC, where she focuses her tax practice on consultation related to real estate fund structuring, mergers and acquisitions within the REIT space, REIT and real estate fund operations, and cross-border real estate investments.Nicole advises clients on real estate fund formation for closed and open end funds. She performs due diligence on potential REIT investments with a view towards REIT related requirements and advises clients on the REIT qualification impact of asset and entity acquisitions and in the context of REIT conversions. She has experience with the acquisition of both private and public REITs. Nicole also advises clients with respect to the REIT qualification impact of ongoing REIT and TRS operations. She has experience working with REITs in connection with investments in residential, office and retail, industrial, manufactured housing, senior housing, student housing, data centers, and hospitality. Nicole also represents several US based real estate development and management clients with respect to structuring real estate investments outside of the U.S. Prior to rejoining PwC, Nicole worked for a number of years in international tax and has particular familiarity with tax planning for a variety of funds and fund investors. In addition to real estate funds, she has advised hedge funds, private equity funds, distressed debt funds, and infrastructure funds, particularly with respect to the cross-border aspects of their structures and operations. This included the provision of U.S. tax advice in connection with fund formations, fund expansions, and portfolio investments. Nicole has also represented major UK pension funds and foreign government investors with respect to their fund investments.