Mark G. Davies

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Mark Davies advises on complex real estate joint ventures and investment funds. Mark brings more than a decade's experience advising on the direct real estate and planning aspects of large-scale developments, acquisitions, and disposals.

Mark's work with sponsors, investors, managers, and operating partners spans UK, overseas, and cross-border real estate transactions and vehicles. The Jones Day clients he has worked with include Castlelake, CBRE, Cortland, Delancey, Get Living, Goldman Sachs, LaSalle, Oxenwood, and Pictet.

Experience

  • CBRE Investment Management invests €300 million in Vía Célere, a Spanish residential developer owned by VärdeJones Day advised CBRE Investment Management, investing on behalf of its indirect private real estate division, in connection with the recapitalization of Värde Partners' ownership stake in Vía Célere.
  • OMERS subsidiary M7 acquires industrial estate from Network Space DevelopmentsJones Day represented a subsidiary of OMERS Administration Corporation, managed by M7 Real Estate, in the £47 million acquisition of Broadheath Network Centre, a multi-let industrial estate in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.
  • Goldman Sachs forms new student housing joint venture with Generation Partners for £110 millionJones Day advised Goldman Sachs on the £110 million acquisition from AIG of two student accommodation properties in Bournemouth and Cardiff, with a total of 907 student beds.
  • Oxford completes sale of £518 million UK retail park portfolio to RedevcoJones Day advised Oxford Properties Group in the £518 million sale of a portfolio of 16 retail parks across the UK to Redevco, one of Europe’s largest privately owned real estate managers.
  • CBRE Investment Management invests €150 million in Verdion European Logistics Fund 2Jones Day advised CBRE Investment Management in the €150 million cornerstone investment in Verdion European Logistics Fund 2, a closed-end value-add real estate venture which targets repositioning assets in established Northern European logistics locations.
  • CBRE-managed fund invests in venture focused on living sector assetsJones Day advised a real estate investment fund managed by CBRE Investment Management Indirect Limited (a subsidiary of CBRE Group, Inc.) in its cornerstone contribution to a €150 million vehicle formed by Westwind Capital, a European private equity real estate investment management platform, to acquire a portfolio of modern private rented sector multifamily properties
  • LaSalle forms JV with Swiss Life Asset ManagersJones Day advised LaSalle Investment Management on a German-focused logistics real estate joint venture with Swiss Life Asset Managers.
  • DOOR and APG joined by Aware Super in Get Living investmentJones Day represented DOOR, S.L.P. (a residential investment vehicle co-sponsored by Delancey and Oxford Properties) in relation to the acquisition by Aware Super of Qatari Diar's 22% stake in Get Living PLC, the UK's most experienced and pioneering developer and operator of large scale BTR neighborhoods, joining APG and DOOR who each control a 39% stake.
  • Lekela Power sold to Infinity Group and Africa Finance Corporation in Africa's biggest renewable energy dealJones Day acted as counsel to the management team of Lekela Power in its acquisition by Infinity Global Energy, a joint venture between Infinity Worldwide Investments and Africa Finance Corporation in Africa’s biggest renewable energy deal.
  • ARA Asset Management Limited acquires InfraRed Capital Partners' European Real Estate Investment Management businessJones Day advised ARA Asset Management Limited in the acquisition of InfraRed European Real Estate Investment Management, a specialist discretionary fund manager in the real estate sector, from InfraRed Capital Partners.
  • Entity advised by Henley Investment acquires Bedfont Lakes, New Square office parkJones Day represented an entity advised by Henley Investment Management Limited in connection with its acquisition of the Bedfont Lakes, New Square office park near Heathrow airport and the establishment of a joint venture with Sixth Street.
  • Pictet Alternative Advisors forms joint venture with Immobel for redevelopment of office property in ParisJones Day advised Pictet Alternative Advisors SA in its joint venture with Immobel for the redevelopment of an approximately 4500 sqm office property in Paris.
  • Goldman sold iQ Student Accommodation dorms to Blackstone for £4.66 billionOn May 15, 2020, Jones Day clients Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division and the Wellcome Trust completed the sale of iQ Student Accommodation to Blackstone for £4.66 billion (US$5.73 billion), representing the largest ever private real estate transaction in the UK.
  • CBRE Global Investment Partners acquires 25% of Cityhold Office Partnership ("CHOP")Jones Day advised CBRE Global Investment Partners in its 25% acquisition of the interests in CHOP valued at approximately €625 million from TIAA-CREF (largest U.S. life insurance company) advised by Nuveen Real Estate (an independent subsidiary of TIAA-CREFF) which also provides investment management services to CHOP.
  • Delancey and APG Joint Venture acquires Earls Court for £425 millionJones Day represented Earls Court Investment Holdings Ltd, a subsidiary of a joint venture between a fund advised by Delancey and APG on behalf of its pension fund clients, in connection with its £425 million acquisition of EC Group Holdings Limited from a subsidiary of Capital & Counties Properties Plc.
  • Sumitomo Heavy Industries acquires InvertekJones Day advised Sumitomo Heavy Industries, Ltd. in the acquisition of the entire issued share capital of Invertek Drives Ltd.
  • International Automotive Components Group Limited leases space at Boulevard Industry Park, Speke, LiverpoolJones Day advised International Automotive Components Group Limited in connection with surrendering a lease at Boulevard Industry Park, Speke, Liverpool and taking a new lease of warehousing space for approximately 76,000 square feet at the same estate, and the regearing of a further lease at the same estate so that the regear lease and the new lease are co-terminus.
  • Joint administrators of Angelic Interiors seek insolvency advice relating to Triangle Site assetsJones Day acted for the joint administrators of Angelic Interiors Limited (in administration) in relation to a number of applications made under the Insolvency Act 1986.
  • Pinewood Group lets part of Pinewood Studios to Walt DisneyJones Day advised Pinewood Group Limited in respect of the letting of part of Pinewood Studios to Walt Disney for an undisclosed rent.
  • Oxenwood acquires two prime logistics units in Leicester and Manchester, United KingdomJones Day advised Oxenwood Real Estate LLP in the acquisition of two prime logistics units in Leicester and Manchester, United Kingdom.
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