About
Moray is a Counsel in our corporate real estate team.
Acting for a broad range of private capital clients, he advises on all aspects of private equity real estate, in particular: M&A and joint ventures.
He is qualified to practice in both England and Wales, and Scotland.
Additional Information
- Advising TPG on various mandates, including its joint venture with M&G Real Estate and the subsequent acquisition and financing of a £700m portfolio of assets by the joint venture.
- Advising GIC on several joint ventures and investments in real estate holding structures across Europe, including (i) the formation of a €2bn pan-European healthcare joint venture and (ii) the extension of its joint venture with Unite Students.
- Advising Ares on the acquisition of a logistics holding company.
- Advising a joint venture between two sovereign wealth funds on the disposal of its interest in another joint venture which holds a London skyscraper.
- Advising Macquarie Asset Management on its acquisition of a stake in EDGE (the sustainability-focused real estate developer) and their future strategic partnership.
- Advising Davidson Kempner on the disposal of the group which held a portfolio of NCP-operated car parks for in excess of £300m and the formation of a joint venture in respect of self-storage assets.
- Advising APG and Sonae Sierra on the formation of a €1.8bn strategic joint venture with Allianz Real Estate and Elo for the operation and development of prime shopping centres in Portugal and Spain.
- Advising a confidential leading alternative asset manager on the acquisition of a group which holds a pan-European portfolio of logistics assets.
- Advising QuadReal on the formation of a €1.25bn joint venture for the investment, development and management of living sector assets in Europe.
- Advising Pandox AB on various acquisitions and financings, including: the acquisition and integration of the Jurys Inn hotels portfolio in the UK and Ireland (in partnership with the Fattal Group) for £800m; and the acquisition of the holding companies in respect of the Midland Hotel, Manchester, the Radisson Blu, Glasgow, the Hilton, Bath and 3 aparthotels in London.
- Advising Leonardo Hotels on the acquisition of the Zien group and its 12 hotels.
- Advising Bruntwood SciTech on a £500m recapitalisation and new joint venture arrangements
- Advising Thomas White Oxford, the development company of St John’s College Oxford, on the formation of a £700m development joint venture with Cadillac Fairview, the real estate arm of Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and Stanhope, the UK-listed developer.
- Advising the Administrators of Debenhams on the “light touch” administration of Debenhams' UK business and the reorganisation of its real estate portfolio.
- Advising Cale Street Partners on their joint venture and acquisition of a 50 per cent stake in a UK shopping centre from intu, and the subsequent acquisition of the remainder of intu's stake and migration to a new services provider following intu's administration.
- Advising London Stock Exchange Group on the real estate aspects of its acquisition of Refinitiv for $27bn.
- Advising ABB on a worldwide reorganisation of its real estate assets before the subsequent sale of a majority stake in its power grids division to Hitachi.
Moray Macdonald
Counsel
London Office
100 Bishopsgate
EC2P 2SR London