Pacific Oak Capital Advisors, LLC (“Pacific Oak”) began its operation in 2018. Pacific Oak serves
as the exclusive external advisor to a publicly registered, non-traded real estate investment trust
named Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity REIT, Inc. (the “SOR REIT”). Also, Pacific Oak serves
as external manager to certain subsidiaries of Keppel Pacific Oak US REIT (the “Keppel REIT”
and, together with the SOR REIT, the “REITs”) which is listed on the Singapore stock exchange.
Pacific Oak also provides advisory and management services to other real estate investment trusts,
collective investment vehicles and accounts. As used in this brochure, the term “client” refers to
each of Pacific Oak’s investment advisory clients (e.g., the REITs) and not to the investors in any
of the REITs or collective investment vehicles.
Pacific Oak previously served as the exclusive external advisor to a publicly registered, non-traded
real estate investment trust named Pacific Oak Strategic Opportunity REIT II, Inc. (“SOR II
REIT”). On October 5, 2020, SOR II REIT merged with an indirect subsidiary of the SOR REIT
and each issued and outstanding share of SOR II REIT’s common stock converted into common
stock of the SOR REIT.
As the external advisor to the REITs, Pacific Oak manages the day-to-day operations of the REITs’
portfolios of real estate properties and real estate-related assets (including real estate-related
securities) and is primarily responsible for the identification, analysis and acquisition of real estate
properties and real estate-related investments. Generally, proposed investments by a REIT are
required to be approved by at least a majority of such REIT’s board of directors (and in certain
situations, a majority of the conflicts or other similar committee of the board). As such, Pacific
Oak generally functions in a non-discretionary capacity.
However, subject to the limitations in each REIT’s charter and the oversight of its board of
directors, Pacific Oak may exercise limited discretionary authority to make certain securities
investments on behalf of the REITs. Please refer to the respective REIT’s prospectus for a further
description of Pacific Oak’s investment authority with respect to such REIT.
Pacific Oak is controlled and indirectly owned by the following individuals:
Peter McMillan III; Born 1957
Education: Clark University, 1979, B.A. (with honors) – Economics; Wharton Graduate
School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, 1982 – MBA (Finance)
Business Background: Member of the board of directors of TCW Funds, Inc. and TCW
Strategic Income Fund, Inc., and is a member of the board of trustees of Metropolitan West
Funds; Co-founder and Principal of KBS Capital Advisors, LLC formed in 2006; Co-
founder and Managing Partner of Willowbrook Capital Group, LLC; prior to forming
Willowbrook in 2000, Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of
SunAmerica Investments, Inc.; before joining SunAmerica in 1989, Assistant
Vice
President for Aetna Life Insurance andAnnuity Company.
Keith D. Hall; Born 1958
Education: California State University, Sacramento, 1981, B.A. (with honors) – Finance
Business Background: Co-founder and Principal of KBS Capital Advisors, LLC formed
in 2006; Co-founder of Willowbrook Capital Group, LLC; prior to forming Willowbrook
in 2000, Managing Director at CS First Boston with responsibilities for Mezzanine Lending
and Commercial Real Estate Development; prior to joining CS First Boston in 1996,
Director in the Real Estate Products Group at Nomura Securities; during the 1980s, Senior
Vice President in the High Yield Department of Drexel Burnham Lambert.
Both of Pacific Oak’s principal owners are actively involved in Pacific Oak’s management and
operations. The primary responsibility for the investment recommendations made by Pacific Oak
to its clients, including the selection of real estate properties and real estate-related investments,
and the negotiation of the terms of these investments, resides ultimately with Pacific Oak’s
principals, Messrs. McMillan and Hall.
Pacific Oak provides investment advisory services to the REITs in accordance with the investment
policies and objectives adopted by the REITs’ boards of directors. Consistent with the REITs’
investment objectives and strategies, the securities advisory services that Pacific Oak provides
generally are limited to certain real estate-related securities. The individual needs of the investors
in the REITs are not considered when making investment recommendations or providing other
advisory services. Instead, Pacific Oak provides advice directly to the REITs and not individually
to the investors in the REITs. While the majority of Pacific Oak’s investment recommendations
are approved by the REITs’ boards of directors, Pacific Oak may exercise limited discretionary
authority with respect to certain real-estate securities investments within certain parameters set by
the REITs’ boards of directors. Pacific Oak also provides advisory and management services to
certain subsidiaries of the Keppel REIT pursuant to a services agreement with the manager of the
Keppel REIT and certain other affiliates of the Keppel REIT.
Pacific Oak provides advisory and management services to each of the REITs pursuant to the terms
of an advisory agreement executed with each REIT.
In addition to managing the day-to-day operations of the REITs’ portfolios of real estate properties
and real estate-related assets (including real estate-related securities) and providing real estate
investment recommendations to the REITs, Pacific Oak also may provide asset management,
capital management, marketing, investor relations, compliance and other administrative services
to the REITs.
Affiliates of Pacific Oak provide non-securities related investment management services to other
real estate investment vehicles as described in Item 10.
As of December 31, 2023, Pacific Oak managed client assets of approximately $3,481,073,537.