Nicholas Rees specialises in domestic and cross-border acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, private equity transactions and minority investments.
Nicholas acts for financial investors and corporate clients in a range of sectors, with a particular focus on Real Assets.
- Norges Bank Investment Management on its £570 million acquisition of a 25% stake in Shaftesbury Capital PLC's £2.7 billion Covent Garden Estate and the associated long-term joint venture arrangements
- Avolon, a global aviation leasing company, on its $5 billion acquisition of an aircraft portfolio from Castlelake Aviation Limited
- Temasek on its £2bn takeover, alongside EQT and CPPIB, of Keywords Studios
- Standard Chartered on its US$3.6bn disposal of its aircraft leasing platform to AviLease
- Nuveen on its Euro540 million joint venture with Global Student Accommodation
- Norges Bank Investment Management on a further investment into its logistics JV with Prologis
- Cerberus on its acquisition of Abelo from Oaktree Capital Management
- Nordic Aviation Capital on its acquisition by Dubai Aerospace Enterprise for $2 billion
- Temasek on its acquisition of Element Materials Group
- Temasek on its acquisition of a minority stake in each of Spectris, LeapFrog Investments and FNZ Group
- CK Asset Holdings on the US$4bn sale of AMCK Aviation to Carlyle Aviation Partners
- CK Asset Holdings on the acquisition and subsequent £1.2bn disposal of the holding company of 5 Broadgate in the City
- Nuveen on its acquisition of Glennmont Partners, one of Europe's largest renewable energy fund managers
- CK Asset Holdings on its £4.6bn takeover of Green King plc
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Contact details
- Clifford Chance, London
- +442070061706
- Email me
- Practice area M&A corporate
- Sector Private equity
Career & qualifications
- University of Wales, Cardiff (LLB, First Class Honours) 1993
- Bristol University (LLM, Distinction) 1996
- Joined Clifford Chance 1999
- Partner since 2010
- Clifford Chance Moscow (Head of M&A/PE) 2011 to 2015