Mark G.Davies

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Mark Davies practices commercial real estate, real estate private equity, and planning law.

Mark has significant experience in corporate real estate (large-scale acquisitions, disposals, and financings, together with M&A work, including single-asset and portfolio transactions, developments, and forward fundings) and landlord and tenant work. His focus has been on logistics and retail but also extends to student housing and film studios.

Over the last several years, Mark has practiced primarily in the area of real estate private equity, principally involving investment funds and joint ventures. Acting for sponsors, investors, managers, and operating partners, Mark's early and ongoing experience with direct real estate deals lends a unique breadth of insight into the structure and intent of the indirect side. Mark's experience in the private equity arena is a mix of UK, overseas, and cross-border vehicles.

Mark has also developed a range of planning experience, including an abundance of work on complex s106 and s278 agreements, particularly involving retail and student housing developments.

The clients Mark has recently and regularly represents include: on direct real estate and planning: Oxenwood, British Land, LondonMetric, STERIS, Greystar, Delancey, MARK, and Aermont (supporting the growth of the iconic film and television Pinewood Studios) and on real estate private equity: CBRE, Pictet, Townsend, and Henley.

Experience

  • Lekela Power sold to Infinity Group and Africa Finance Corporation in Africa's biggest renewable energy dealJones Day is acting 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.
  • Hansteen Holdings and associated group entities acquire 34 properties from St Modwen Properties Plc and associated group companiesJones Day represented Hansteen Holdings Plc and group entities on its £53.7 million ($68.2 million) acquisition of 34 properties from St Modwen Properties Plc and associated group companies.
  • Oxenwood sells portfolio of prime logistics properties in UK to Ascendas ReitJones Day advised Oxenwood Real Estate, in a joint venture with Catalina Holdings, on the sale of a portfolio of prime logistics properties in the UK to Ascendas Reit for £207 million ($264.6 million).
  • LondonMetric acquires portfolio of 10 single-let properties from The ACT FoundationJones Day advised LondonMetric Property Plc in connection with its £55 million acquisition of a portfolio of 10 single-let properties consisting of 9 urban logistics assets and a retail store from The ACT Foundation.
  • Hercules Unit Trust forms joint venture with M&G Real EstateJones Day advised Hercules Unit Trust in its simultaneous acquisition of the Fort Kinnaird retail park in Edinburgh by a new joint venture formed between Hercules Unit Trust (HUT) and M&G Real Estate and sale of the Gallagher retail park in Cheltenham to The Crown Estate.
  • Western Digital acquires Tegile SystemsJones Day represented Western Digital, a leading provider of storage technologies and solutions that enable people to create, leverage, experience, and preserve data, in connection with its acquisition of Tegile Systems, Inc., a developer of flash and persistent-memory storage solutions for enterprise data center applications.
  • Oxenwood Real Estate acquires £286 million (US$366.9 million) Ultrabox logistics portfolioJones Day advised Oxenwood Real Estate LLP on its joint venture with a Canadian institutional investor and the acquisition by that joint venture of the Ultrabox portfolio of nine prime logistics assets in the UK totaling 3.87 million sq. ft. for £286 million (US$366.9 million).
  • CBRE GIP's European Co-Investment Fund acquires portfolio of assets from Prologis UKJones Day advised CBRE GIP's European Co-Investment Fund (a Dutch incorporated fund) in relation to the acquisition of a portfolio of 22 UK logistics assets (mix of development and stabilized assets) and circa 20 associated property holding companies and management companies, and the formation of an associated 85/15 joint venture with Prologis UK.
  • Sierra Wireless acquires Blue CreationJones Day advised Sierra Wireless in its acquisition of all of the outstanding shares of the parent company and sole owner of Blue Creation.
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