19 Feb 2026
Greenberg Traurig Adds Jonathan Temps as Chicago Shareholder to Strengthen Private Funds and Global Real Estate Practice
"Greenberg Traurig has hired Jonathan Temps as a Chicago shareholder in its Private Funds Group; he will work on private-equity real estate funds and related fund transactions within the Global Real Estate Practice."
Temps joins Greenberg Traurig from Baker McKenzie and brings more than two and a half decades of experience spanning private equity, investment funds, and mergers and acquisitions. He will focus on guiding sponsors of private-equity real estate funds and their investors through the full lifecycle of raising, managing, and deploying capital. His practice covers major activities undertaken by real estate investment funds, including M&A, co-investment opportunities, continuation fund arrangements, secondary transactions, and joint venture partnerships. Temps has negotiated and closed dozens of deals and funds with transaction values totaling tens of billions of dollars and has led negotiations for both general partners and limited partners across the United States, Asia, Europe, and South America. In addition to prior roles at law firms, he has worked for an investment bank and for a real estate private equity fund, where he served as head of capital markets and legal, and he has substantial experience with tax-advantaged real estate structures such as Delaware statutory trusts, umbrella partnership REITs, and qualified opportunity zones.