Jonathan Kandel

The Carlyle Group in the formation of its US$2.3 billion Carlyle Japan Partners IV

Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking Division on its acquisition of B&B Hotels

TPG Real Estate Partners:

• on its c. €300 million acquisition of Témpore Properties, a Spanish Real Estate Investment Trust
• on the acquisition of a site comprising approximately 39,000 sqm of buildable area in central Lisbon, Portugal, as part of a joint venture with Round Hill Capital
• TPG Real Estate Partners II on its £450 million acquisition of Arlington Properties from Goodman Group and Legal & General

Searchlight Capital on the acquisition of a 26% minority stake in Latécoère

KKR in relation to the initial public offering of Telepizza

GIC, Singapore's sovereign wealth fund:

• on a $1 billion joint venture to acquire Equinix Inc’s European hyperscale data centres which involved complex cross-border tax implications
• as part of a consortium on the c. €4.4 billion acquisition of a 55% a stake in the real estate assets of French multinational hotel group AccorHotels
• on its €2.4 billion acquisition of P3 Logistic Parks

Lone Star in the financing aspects of its acquisition of the Xella Group from PAI Partners and funds managed by Goldman Sachs’ investment arm

Brookfield:

• on its acquisition and financing of the SACO (Serviced Apartment Company) platform from Oaktree Capital Management
• on its acquisition of GL Europe RE Holdings SARL, a U.K. student accommodation platform, from Avenue Capital

Blackstone and Telereal Trillium on the £1.46 billion privatisation of Network Rail’s commercial estate

Blackstone:

• on the £450 million sale the 7,921-bed Victoria Hall student accommodation portfolio
• on the €492 million acquisition of a portfolio of European logistics assets from Marathon (in partnership with Industrial Securities, part of MARCOL)
• on its acquisition of the O’Flynn Group (and various related transactions), which includes the Victoria Hall student housing business

Global Logistics Properties (GLP) on the US$2.8 billion acquisition of European logistics business IDI Gazeley from Brookfield Asset Management

Goldman Sachs, Park Square and NGA Human Resources on the sale of NGA’s UK mid-market and small and medium business divisions to Bain Capital Private Equity
presentative matters

Lone Star in the financing aspects of its acquisition of the Xella Group from PAI Partners and funds managed by Goldman Sachs’ investment arm

Oaktree Capital Management on the carve out and sale of its UK student housing business to a consortium of GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, and global student accommodation firm GSA 

Aleph Capital on the set up of its platform, joint venture with Crestview and investment in Interoute

Molson Coors on its $12bn acquisition of SABMiller’s interest in MillerCoors joint venture

Macquarie sponsored funds in relation to Birmingham, Bristol, Rome, Sydney and Brussels airports; in relation to the M6, Ontario Highway 407, Chicago Skyway and APRR toll road transactions and in relation to certain of their telecoms and network acquisitions

Orion Capital Managers:

• on the £400 million acquisition of a portfolio of seven retail parks from Hammerson plc
• on the acquisition of Telford, Wakefield, East Kilbride and Kingsgate Shopping Centres
• on the acquisition of 259 City Road and The Glebe residential developments
• and CarVal Investors on the disposal of certain joint ventures

Qatari Diar and CPC in relation to the acquisition of Chelsea Barracks and One Hyde Park 

Credit & Restructuring

LSF10 Wolverine Investments S.C.A, an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of Lone Star Funds, in connection with its offering of €515 million Senior Secured Notes due 2024 for the acquisition by Lone Star of the Stark Group

KKR Special Situations and its portfolio company Selecta, on the pending acquisition of Gruppo Argenta, a leading vending and coffee service provider in Italy

Toys “R” Us, Inc., and 24 of its direct and indirect subsidiaries (Toys) for Chapter 11 protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division, to address the debtors’ more than US$5.2 billion of global prepetition indebtedness

Blackrock in relation to its corporate credit and CLO platform

Carlyle, Blackstone and Blackrock in relation to certain CLO transactions

Lehman Brothers Holding Inc on matters relating to the administration of the estate of Lehman Brothers International (Europe)

KKR Special Situations:

• on the restructuring of its portfolio company, Northgate Information Solutions Holdings Limited
• on the establishment of a distressed debt and corporate turnaround advisory business
• on a joint venture with two Italian banks regarding Italian loans

AXA in relation to their real estate credit platform

Funds

Representations include acting for:

• TPG Real Estate on the fund formation and fundraising, gathering $3.7 billion in capital
• Starwood Capital Group in connection with its most recent flagship fundraise, Starwood Global Opportunity Fund XI, which exceeded its US$5 billion - US$6 billion target and finished hitting its hard cap with a total of US$7.6 billion in commitments, making Fund XI the largest fundraise in Starwood’s 26-year history
• ABN Amro, Abraaj, Actis, Aermont, AEW, AMP Capital, Apax, Arcus, Argan, Barclays, Bastion, BC Partners, Blackrock, Brookfield, BTG Pactual, Carlyle, Charterhouse, Crestview, DLJMB, EISER, EQT, GMT, GPI Capital, GLP, Graphite, GTCR LLC, Hastings, Hermes, HSBC, Industry Funds Management, Industri Kapital, InfraRed, JPM, Lion Capital, Macquarie, Orion, Pollen Street, RREEF, Starwood, Summit LP, TDR, Terra Firma, TPG, Trilantic, Vitruvian Partners and Warburg Pincus on fund raisings

Secondary Transactions/GP Minority Deals

Blackstone Strategic Capital Holdings on its strategic minority partnership with BC Partners

Rhône Group in its strategic partnership with Eurazeo SE (EPA: RF) for a 30% interest in Rhône Group in exchange for $270 million in cash and Eurazeo stock

Starwood Capital Group in connection with a minority investment into its funds by Dyal Capital Partners, a unit of Neuberger Berman Private Equity

Acting for TDR Capital in the creation of an Annex Fund to TDR Capital II

Acting for a Canadian pension fund on secondary market sale of a portfolio of private equity fund interests to a European private investment company

Acting for Argan, DLJMB and GMT as GPs on secondary transactions

Acting for Landmark and OTPP as investors in secondary transactions

Spin Outs

Acting for management teams spinning out of Barclays, HSBC, ABN Amro, Credit Suisse, Babcock & Brown, Fortis and Bank of America

Own Account

China Investment Corporation (CIC); Government of Singapore (GIC); KAUST; Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP) and OMERS on own account tax matters

Weil, Gotshal & Manges

• Partner, Head of Tax, 2011–2015

Clifford Chance

• Partner, 2008–2011
• Associate, 2001–2008
• Trainee Solicitor, 1999–2001