About
Abbey is an associate in our London office private equity real estate team advising investors on UK and European private equity real estate deals across the risk spectrum. In particular, Abbey's practice centres around joint ventures, real estate M&A, direct and indirect acquisitions and sale and leasebacks.
Abbey has experience across a wide range of real estate assets and businesses including offices, data centres, residential (PRS/BTR and build-to-sell), student accommodation, healthcare and life sciences, and logistics assets.
Additional Information
Abbey's experience includes advising:
- Partners Group on:
- its pan-European joint venture with Italian student housing specialist Camplus International and alternative asset manager DeA Capital Real Estate, aiming at developing and operating more than 5,000 beds across European cities
- its programmatic joint venture with Host Student Housing to build up to a £1 billion UK purpose built student accommodation (PBSA) and co-living platform and on the joint venture’s first acquisition of a four-asset seed portfolio
- Sixth Street on its UK and European real estate acquisitions, investments, joint ventures and financings
- Yondr on the €500 million acquisition, development and financing of one of the world’s largest data centres and its associated letting to a major international tech company
- GIC in connection with its acquisition of a 40% interest in The Oxford Science Park from Magdalen College, Oxford and on a strategic joint venture between GIC and Magdalen College aimed at accelerating major development of the Science Park
- Arrow Capital Partners on its Strategic Industrial Real Estate (SIRE) joint venture with US private equity real estate fund Cerberus to acquire and manage, for long-term purposes, a projected €3 billion portfolio of industrial and urban logistics properties across Europe
Please note this includes experience at previous firms.

Abbey Shaw
Associate
London Office
100 Bishopsgate
London EC2P 2SR