Paddy (Patrick) McKillen (born 1955; Belfast, Northern Ireland) is an Irish property investor and businessman.During the 1980s he built up a portfolio of prime assets including commercial buildings, retail stores and shopping centres in Dublin, Belfast, Cork and Limerick. In the late 1990s he turned his attention to acquiring and building a portfolio of prime properties in London, Paris, Asia and the US.Throughout his career, McKillen has demonstrated a policy of buying prime properties, improving them and holding them for long periods of time to maximise the investment. His portfolio consists of retail and commercial properties, and hotels including Claridges, The Connaught and The Berkeley in London, retail properties in Place Vendome in Paris and properties in other major cities. In February 2011 he won a landmark Supreme Court Case in Ireland and blocked the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) from seizing some €2.1 billion loans associated with companies he had a shareholding in. Wikipedia
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