Real Assets
How we can help
The distinction between real estate and infrastructure has narrowed. Institutional investors are increasingly building platforms and portfolios rather than individual assets, across sectors including digital infrastructure, living, logistics, healthcare and energy transition. As investors and managers bring their real estate and infrastructure strategies together under dedicated real assets mandates, they need advisers who understand the underlying assets, the capital structures and the M&A execution in equal measure.
Our Real Assets team is organised around the way private capital actually invests, combining private capital M&A, direct real estate, banking and finance, funds, construction, planning and environment and regulatory expertise within a single group that works together across the entire investment life cycle, from acquisition and financing through development and operation to eventual exit.
Several members of our team have worked within the organisations we advise, and we structure our advice with a clear understanding of how they assess and execute deals.
Supported by G+T’s leading public M&A, ECM, private equity and finance practices, and by integrated capability across tax, competition, regulatory, disputes and ESG, we provide commercial and considered advice on complex, high-value transactions across the full risk curve.
Real Assets experience
Digital infrastructure and data centres
Acting on acquisitions, leasing, structuring and debt financing for major Australian data centre platforms including AirTrunk, CDC, STACK, DCI and GreenSquareDC, comprising over $50 billion of debt issuance since 2018.
Logistics and industrial
Acting for lenders across ESR's Australian financing programme, including the $3.8 billion Milestone Logistics acquisition, over $4.5 billion of debt issuance across EALP, EALP II, EALP III and EADP and Westlink Industrial Park.
Logistics and industrial
Acting for Macquarie Asset Management on its cornerstone investment in the LogiSPACE logistics platform and for Starwood on its $500 million programmatic industrial joint venture with Kinkora Investments.
Living and accommodation
Acting for Samty, Hillhouse and Rava on the $625 million UniLodge acquisition and for the lenders to Blackstone on the $500 million Student One acquisition financing.
Living and accommodation
Macquarie Asset Management on investments in Local: Residential.
Hospitality and leisure
Acting for the lenders to Blackstone on the financing of its $8.9 billion acquisition of Crown Resorts and its $1.2 billion acquisition of Hamilton Island.
Real estate portfolios
Acting for Deutsche Bank on Brookfield and GIC's $6.8 billion National Storage REIT acquisition and for the lenders to Blackstone on the $1.45 billion financing and refinancing of its Australian Core Property logistics portfolio.
Energy and infrastructure
Acting for Sembcorp on its $3.1 billion club financing for the acquisition of Alinta Energy and for the lenders to Snowy Hydro in relation to its debt financing arrangements, including Snowy 2.0.
Platform investments and fund formation
Acting for Assembly Funds Management on the establishment of its retail platform with PGIM Real Estate and for Rava Partners on its acquisition of Barwon Investment Partners, a leading Australian real assets manager.
Back-leverage and loan-on-loan financings
Acting on back-leverage and loan-on-loan financings for credit funds and sponsors, including multi-asset structures for Starwood, HMC and MA Financial and single-asset back-leverage transactions exceeding $4.5 billion.