Corporate
Through our Corporate Opportunities team we will invest in opportunities that are backed by real estate assets or that are directly real estate related, but which are not direct asset purchases. This means that we look at a wide range of opportunities from venture capital in unlisted start-ups through corporate development capital in SMEs to strategic investment capital in FTSE listed companies.
This frequently results in our involvement in the more alternative real estate sectors such as self-storage, student accommodation, and retirement/care corporate development, as well as established leisure industries such as pubs and hotels. It can also involve us acquiring an operating business alongside the real estate asset base. When investing in an operating business we will look to back entrepreneurial and proven management teams, such as Kew Green Hotels.
Within this arena we employ creative integrated financial solutions and investment structuring, frequently using convertible preference shares, loan stock, mezzanine finance and asset linked loan notes.
In summary the range of opportunities that we will consider is as follows:
- Private Equity – Management buy-outs or management buy-ins - supporting a credible and proven management team
- Venture/Development Capital – backing entrepreneurs to build a new business from scratch or providing growth finance to an already seeded company
- Joint Ventures – with investment/development or operational specialists or other finance providers who need additional equity and/or real estate expertise
- Corporate investment – investment in corporates operating real estate related businesses in need of either: additional equity; a new investor; or real estate expertise - often with a longer term view using creative structuring including convertible preference shares or the provision of mezzanine finance
- Listed Companies – stake building with a view to forming strategic alliances, joint ventures or backing management teams in entrepreneurial initiatives
- Debt – investment in debt and debt instruments secured on real estate assets, on a purely financial basis or with a view to controlling or managing the underlying asset, and the provision of mezzanine finance
- Derivatives – as investments or as hedging instruments
The range of sectors and businesses we will consider is very broad but includes:
- Traditional real estate sectors (office, retail, industrial)
- Hotels
- Pubs
- Cinemas
- Care homes
- Retirement housing solutions
- Student/key worker accommodation
- Listed property companies
- Property management companies
- Residential companies/portfolios
- Housebuilders and housebuilders stock
- Strategic land acquisitions
- Development companies/opportunities
- Transport Hubs – airports, ports etc.
- Datacentres
- Self-storage
- Service stations
- Hospitals and healthcare related assets
- Distressed debt
- Mezzanine finance
- Equity release
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