About
Bagash is a Senior Associate in the firm’s private equity real estate practice.
He is an experienced M&A advisor and has worked on mandates on both the capital provider and operator side, advising clients on corporate acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures. Bagash has also advised clients on the ground-up development of real estate assets and infrastructure.
Additional Information
- Advising a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund on the establishment, corporate set-up and management arrangements pertaining to three separate joint ventures with Greystar Real Estate Partners for the investment in and development of rental housing property portfolios in London and the Netherlands.
- Advising Ares Management on:
- the establishment of a joint venture in respect of a pan-European logistics platform with an asset manager, and securing exclusivity on a pipeline of seed assets across Europe;
- the sale of its European light industrial and logistics assets portfolio to Blackstone;
- the establishment of a joint venture company with Valfondo, to acquire, develop and manage a logistics asset platform across Western Europe and Iberia, including its entry into a full suite of management agreements in respect of the business and assets.
- Advising TPG on:
- its disposal of, and exit from, the Arlington Business Parks platform for a headline price of £714m to Brookfield Property Group.
- its acquisition of logistics assets from, and joint venture arrangements with, M&G Real Estate. The joint venture had assets valued at over £700m.
- its sale of A&O Hostels (a hostels business with a large portfolio across Europe) to funds managed by Stepstone and Proprium.
- its bid for Green Data, a Swiss based data centre operator valued at c.€2bn.
- Advising Alpha Dhabi Holding and its joint venture company ADMO Lifestyle on the negotiation of a suite of management agreements for the construction and management of a luxury resort and restaurant in Saudi Arabia.
- Advising a Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund on the sale of their interest in a joint venture which owned and operated a premier London office building.
- Advising CPPIB on the establishment, corporate set-up and management arrangements of a joint venture with hotels manager Hamilton-Pyramid Europe to acquire and manage hotel properties in key European gateway cities. The Joint Venture had an initial equity commitment of €500m.
- Advising the Pandox AB group on its acquisition of The Queens Hotel in central Leeds, UK, with a total acquisition price of approx. £53m.
- Advising GIC on the extension of its 50:50 London Student Accommodation Joint Venture with Unite Students by a further 10 years and the purchase of two new JV assets bringing the net assets of the JV to c.£1.1bn.
- Advising the London Stock Exchange Group on the acquisition of Refinitiv for $27bn.
- Advising Covid vaccine developer Moderna on its leasehold acquisition agreements and construction arrangements in respect of two buildings totalling 145,000 sq. ft. at the Harwell campus for its Moderna Innovation and Technology Centre campus, a facility for research, development and manufacturing.
- Advising DP World PLC in relation to Port & Free Zone World FZE’s acquisition of all publicly held interests and its ultimate delisting and privatisation.
Mohammad Bagash
Senior Associate
London Office
100 Bishopsgate
EC2P 2SR London