Sovereign Investors

Representative experience

GIC in a joint venture with Lehman Brothers to acquire 79 Holiday Inn properties in the UK in a transaction valued at more than US$1bn.

Kingdom Holdings on its acquisition of a 7% stake in Careem, a Dubai-based car booking service.

Norges Bank in its joint venture acquisitions with TIAA-CREF of office properties located in San Francisco and Washington, D.C.

Mapletree Investment Pte Ltd, the real estate arm of Temasek, on the £417.5m acquisition by its portfolio companies of 24 student accommodation assets in the UK.

ICD, the sovereign wealth fund of the Government of Dubai, on its acquisition of Porto Montenegro.

Ivanhoé Cambridge in the US$5.3bn joint venture acquisition with Blackstone of Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village.

Mumtalakat on the buy-out of the shares in McLaren Automotive and the McLaren F1 business and the merger of the two businesses.

A public international organization on its investment in Kaszek Ventures III, a Cayman fund focused on Latin America.

A Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund on its solar energy joint venture.

A Southeast Asian sovereign wealth fund on its US$285m follow-on investment in Duquesne Light, the largest electric utility in greater Pittsburgh.

An Australian superannuation fund on its investment in Waterland Private Equity Fund VII, a Dutch fund focused on investments in Northern Europe.

A Malaysian pension fund on its investment in Summit Partners Growth Equity Fund IX.

GIC as part of a consortium of investors on their acquisition of a stake in Philippine renewable power producer Energy Development Corp.

A Canadian pension fund on a multibillion dollar restructuring of its global real estate portfolio.

Southeast Asian sovereign wealth fund on its direct investment in Neo On Business Ltd, a Brazil-based software company.

An East Asian sovereign wealth fund on its investment in GSO Capital Solutions Overseas Fund III.

QIC, which holds a 50% stake in Merry Hill, on arrangements related to Westfield's sale of their 50% stake to Intu and new co-ownership arrangements with Intu.

Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund in the privatization and sale of Greece’s national train operator TrainOSE S.A.