Managing Partner of our London office, Wheatly MacNamara is a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee, head of the London Real Estate M&A practice and co-head of the London Real Estate group.
Wheatly concentrates her practice on real estate acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures, particularly for private capital sponsors. She represents such leading international fund sponsors as Blackstone, KKR, KSL, Starwood, Apollo and Sixth Street. She has notably advised Blackstone in multiple transactions, including the over 200 acquisitions that became the Mileway last-mile logistics platform, as well as its €21 billion recapitalisation. She also acted for Blackstone on its $7 billion hyperscale data center development joint venture with Digital Realty, C$6.2 billion take-private acquisition of Dream Global REIT, its €12.25 billion sale of Logicor to CIC and its €630.7 million acquisition of Hotel Investment Partners and subsequent sale to GIC of its 35% stake in the company. She has acted for a range of sponsors on joint ventures and operating partner platforms, including with operating partners such as M7, Valor and Cabot.
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Accolades
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Private Equity News "Twenty Most Influential in Real Estate" (2025)
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IFLR1000, "Women Leaders" (2021-2022)
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Law360, "Rising Star in Real Estate" (2018)
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The Legal 500, "Leading Individual", Private Equity: high-value (2023)
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The Lawyer, "Hot 100" in the "Dealmaker" category (2018)
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Legal Business, "Alpha" in the "Women Deal Stars: Private equity" category (2018)
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Private Equity News "Twenty Most Influential in Real Estate" (2025)
Education
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Stanford Law School, 2005 J.D.
Stanford Law Review; Stanford Journal of International Law
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Duke University, 2001 B.A.; B.S.
Associations
- New York State Bar Association
Wheatly MacNamara is Simpson Thacher’s London office Managing Partner and a member of the Firm’s Executive Committee. She is head of the London Real Estate M&A practice and co-head of the London Real Estate Group. Wheatly’s main area of concentration is real estate, an area in which the Firm has a preeminent international presence.
Wheatly concentrates her practice on real estate acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures, particularly for private capital sponsors. She represents such leading international fund sponsors as Blackstone, KKR, KSL, Apollo and Northwood. She has notably advised Blackstone in multiple transactions, including the over 200 acquisitions that became the Mileway last-mile logistics platform, as well as its €21 billion recapitalisation. She also acted for Blackstone on its $7 billion hyperscale data center development joint venture with Digital Realty, C$6.2 billion take-private acquisition of Dream Global REIT, its €12.25 billion sale of Logicor to CIC and its €630.7 million acquisition of Hotel Investment Partners and subsequent sale to GIC of its 35% stake in the company. She has acted for a range of sponsors on joint ventures and operating partner platforms, including with operating partners such as M7, Valor and Cabot.
Wheatly has been recognized for her excellent work in leading international teams in complex multibillion-dollar deals. She was recently named among 2025’s “Twenty Most Influential in Real Estate” by
Private Equity News. She is recognized as a “Leading Individual” in the
Legal 500 Private Equity high-value deals category, has been named a “Rising Star” in Real Estate by
Law360, was recognized as one of the 2018 “Hot 100” in the “Dealmaker” category by
The Lawyer, and was profiled in
Legal Business as one of the “Alphas,” a small group of female deal stars in London.
Wheatly started her career at Simpson Thacher in 2005 and was made partner in 2016. She received her J.D. in 2005 from Stanford Law School, where she was an editor of the Stanford Law Review and the Stanford Journal of International Law. She received her B.A. and B.S. from Duke University in 2001.