Mark Thompson

Ares Management:

• on its CHF 200 million investment into Peach Property Group AG; and
• on the establishment of £200m joint venture partnership with Mount Anvil to develop London residential assets.

AXA IM - Real Assets on the acquisition of Kadans Science Partner. The c. EUR 500 million transaction represented AXA IM's first acquisition in the European Life Sciences Sector.

Brookfield on its:

• as the majority investor in a fund established to acquire and develop a c. $1bn mixed-use trophy asset on the Champs-Élysées;
• establishment of a EUR 500m joint venture to acquire, develop and manage logistics and industrial assets throughout Iberia;
• c. EUR 1bn bid for a Spanish logistics portfolio and partnership with an asset manager;
• c. £4.5 billion bid for the iQ Student Housing platform. Brookfield was the under bidder on what was the largest private real estate transaction in Europe;
• c. £3 billion consortium bid for Intu plc;
• acquisition and financing of the SACO (Serviced Apartment Company) platform from Oaktree Capital Management;
• on its bid for Generator Hostels;
• acquisition of GL Europe RE Holdings SARL, a U.K. student accommodation platform, from Avenue Capital and subsequently implementing the MIP. The transaction was Brookfield’s first European investment in student housing;
• acquisition of real estate assets from Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. following chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings; and
• acquisition of Candor Investments Ltd from Unitech Corporate Parks plc (a Class 1 disposal).

GIC (Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund) on the acquisition of:

• a UK real estate portfolio; and

P3 Logistic Parks, a leading specialist pan-European owner, developer and manager of logistics properties, from TPG Real Estate and Ivanhoé Cambridge for €2.4 billion.

Global Logistics Properties (GLP) on its:

• acquisition of European logistics business IDI Gazeley from Brookfield Asset Management for approximately US$2.8 billion; and
•  bid for Logicor.

I Squared Capital as the relationship partner on K&E's first European M&A instruction for I Squared - its £2.3 billion recommended offer (in consortium with TDR) for Aggreko plc.

Oaktree Capital Management on the carve out and sale of its UK student housing business to a consortium of GIC and global student accommodation firm GSA

Starwood Capital Group on its:

• £467.9 million recommended offer for RDI REIT plc; and
• £673.5 million recommended acquisition of Balanced Commercial Property Trust Limited.

A consortium consisting of Apax, Warburg Pincus, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on the $3.4 billion take private of Inmarsat, a British satellite communications group.