Riaz Pirmohamed advises on cross-border M&A, joint ventures and private capital transactions, with a particular focus on Real Assets M&A.
Riaz acts for private capital investors, sovereign wealth and pension funds and large corporates in a range of sectors, with a particular focus on Real Assets transactions, spanning real estate, infrastructure, digital infrastructure and transportation. Riaz has deep real estate sector expertise, with experience of the acquisition and disposal of commercial real estate across multiple asset classes in the UK and Europe.
Having trained at Clifford Chance, Riaz has spent time in our Dubai office and on secondment to Cinven.
- Macquarie Asset Management on the US$9 billion sale of transportation infrastructure business, Macquarie AirFinance, to DAE
- Aware Super on its acquisition of a 31.3% stake in a €2.6 billion pan-European retail real estate joint venture, the European Outlet Mall Venture platform
- Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) 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
- A financial investor on a multi-billion pan-European real estate joint venture, including the establishment of a UK REIT
- Nido Living on its €1.2 billion acquisition of Livensa Group from Brookfield
- China Investment Corporation on its €12.25 billion acquisition of Logicor from Blackstone
- Patrizia on its €1.2 billion acquisition of a pan-European logistics portfolio from BentallGreenOak
- IRUS European Retail Property Fund on two concurrent pan-European sales of ten retail outlet centres for €1.28 billion
- Cellnex on its €10 billion acquisition of the European telecommunications tower assets of CK Hutchison Holdings
- Cellnex on the €1.6 billion acquisition of Polkomtel Infrastruktura
- A financial investor and one of its investee companies on the acquisition of a pan-European portfolio of logistics real estate assets valued at over €300m
- Nuveen on its acquisition of Glennmont Partners, one of Europe’s largest renewable energy fund managers
- CK Asset Holdings on the US$4 billion sale of transportation infrastructure business, AMCK Aviation, to Carlyle Aviation Partners.
- Macquarie on various transactions, including the separate investments by PGGM Infrastructure Fund and Australian Retirement Trust in Macquarie AirFinance
- China Aircraft Leasing on transfer of its Boeing aircraft delivery pipeline to Dubai Aerospace Enterprise
- Nordic Aviation Capital on certain corporate aspects of its $6 billion debt restructuring
- GECAS on its strategic joint venture with Israel Aerospace Industries to establish a passenger-to-freighter conversion programme for Boeing 777-300ERSF aircraft
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Contact details
- Clifford Chance, London
- +442070063981
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- Sector Aviation, Infrastructure investors, Real estate, Renewables, Telecommunications