Michael Buhagiar
Michael Buhagiar
Michael Buhagiar
Biography
Michael has experience advising on all aspects of real estate finance matters. He advises both borrowers and lenders acting for institutional investors, property companies, clearing banks, and alternative debt funds. Michael has worked on a variety of transactions from syndicated facilities on property portfolios to bilateral development facilities and has experience in the logistics, office, retail and senior living sectors.
Michael has spent time on secondment at global property developer, Related Argent, in their legal team.
Admissions
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England and Wales
Related Practice Areas
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Real Estate Finance
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Finance
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Financial Institutions
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Real Estate
Experience
- Part of the BCLP team who provided finance advice to Precis Advisory in connection with two sites in London’s Knowledge Quarter. Belgrove House is proposed as a new specialised office and laboratory building for the life-sciences sector. It will be a Discovery Hub and UK HQ/centre of excellence for MSD UK (the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company).
- Advising Henderson Park to secure a €1.2 billion financing in respect of its takeover of Green REIT Plc, the largest ever transaction in the Irish real estate market.
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Advising Korean investors HANA and Kiwoom on the finance aspects of the purchase of the Sanctuary Building for over £280 million. Later advising the investors on the finance aspects of the subsequent disposal to L&G for around £300 million.
- Advising Brookfield Asset Management funds on acquisition financings, including:
- Advising Brookfield Asset Management’s fourth flagship opportunity fund (BSREP IV) on financing the acquisition of a logistics asset located in the United Kingdom. The facility has a value of £54 million.
- Advising Brookfield Asset Management’s first European secondaries fund (BRES) on financing the acquisition of four logistics assets located in the United Kingdom. The facilities have a total value of c.£106 million.