Anthony D. King

Anthony (“Tony”) King is Co-Head of the Firm’s Asia Private Equity Practice and a Partner in the Firm’s Mergers & Acquisitions and Real Estate Departments. Tony’s work focuses on private equity and corporate acquisitions, dispositions, joint ventures, minority and strategic investments and other M&A transactions across various industries, with significant experience in real estate and real estate-intensive M&A transactions as well as transactions in the digital infrastructure, gaming, digital services and pharmaceutical/healthcare industries.  His broad-ranging practice spans the full investment spectrum, from “take-privates” of publicly-listed companies to complex joint ventures, investment platform structures and single asset acquisitions.  He also advises clients on corporate and securities laws and corporate governance matters. 

Tony was based in the Firm’s Hong Kong office from 2013 through 2020, during which time he was involved in a wide-range of pan-Asia private equity M&A transactions and led the Firm’s Real Estate private equity practice in Asia.  He has been involved in some of the largest private-equity M&A transactions in Asia, including acting for Blackstone in connection with its A$24 billion acquisition of AirTrunk, one of the largest data center transactions globally to date and the winner of numerous legal awards.  Tony will be primarily located in the Firm’s Singapore office upon its opening in 2026.

Throughout his career, Tony has represented a wide range of private equity clients, including Blackstone, Carlyle, EQT, First Reserve, KKR, KSL and Silver Lake Partners, and their affiliated funds.  Significant representations include: 

• EQT’s infrastructure funds and their data center portfolio company, EdgeConneX, including in connection with Sixth Street’s minority investment in EdgeConneX and EdgeConneX’s investment in Chayora Holdings, a China-focused data center operator;
• Blackstone and its private equity, real estate, infrastructure and secondaries funds on:
  • the A$24 billion (US$16.1 billion) acquisition of AirTrunk, the largest data center operator in Asia-Pacific;
  • the $6.3 billion acquisition of Australian-gaming company Crown Resorts;
  • the $6 billion acquisition of Home Partners of America;
  • the $5.56 billion sale of The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas;
  • the investment by Realty Income Corporation in a joint venture owning interests in the real estate assets of the The Bellagio Las Vegas;
  • the $2.3 billion acquisition of Takeda Consumer Healthcare Company Limited and its subsequent sale to MBK Partners in Japan;
  • the $1.9 billion acquisition of the Motel 6 and Studio 6 business from Accor and subsequent $525 million sale of its franchise business to India-based OYO Rooms;
  • the $1.7 billion take-private transaction for TSE-listed Infocom Corporation;
  • the joint venture with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, CPPIB and funds affiliated with Rialto Capital acquiring a 20% equity stake in the approx. $17 billion senior mortgage loan portfolio of former Signature Bank;
  • the acquisition of majority stakes in Sony Payment Services and CMIC Co., Ltd. in Japan;
  • the acquisition of Nucleus Networks, a phase one clinical trials provider in Australia and the U.S.;
  • the formation of DCI Data Centers in Australia;
  • the privatizations of ASX-listed Astro Japan Property Group, AIM-listed Japan Residential Investment Company Limited and SGX-listed Croesus Retail Trust;
  • the listing of the Embassy Office Parks REIT and investments in Mindspace REITin India and Blackstone’s investments in their underlying assets;
  • the minority investment by Blackstone Strategic Partners in alternative asset manager PAG;
  • additional real estate transactions in China, India, South Korea, Japan, Singapore and Australia in the mixed-use, office, logistics, retail and hospitality sectors, including its $480 million acquisition of 50% of Taubman Asia’s interests in three Asia-based shopping centers, its $1.25 billion acquisition of VivoCity Mall in Shanghai, its investments in the Quayside Collection at Sentosa Cove, Singapore and its investments in SCP Company Limited and the Top Ryde shopping center in Sydney, Australia;
  • the investments in Partners Group Holdings Limited, National Lifestyle Villages and International Asset Reconstruction Co., RGIS Holdings and Vanguard Health Systems;
  • the acquisition of mortgage REIT Capital Trust, Inc.’s investment management business and certain fund co-investments and related investment in Capital Trust (now known as Blackstone Mortgage Trust (BXMT));
• Carlyle in connection with the sale of a 7.5% interest in Carlyle to affiliates of Mubadala Development Company;
• KSL Capital Partners in its investment in resort chain Soneva in the Maldives;
• IndoSpace, an Indian-focused logistics owner and operator, in the formation of a long-term strategic partnership with GLP

Additional corporate clients have included the Virgin Group, Tyco International, TD Bank and Nieman Marcus Group.

Tony joined the Firm in 2003 and became Partner in 2013. He received his B.A., magna cum laude, from Pomona College in 1997 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2003. Tony is admitted to practice in New York and as a solicitor in Hong Kong.