Michael Twining Partner

Michael Twining

Mike specialises in acting for institutional investors and private equity companies and is involved in many of the largest portfolio transactions in a range of sectors including industrial, logistics and student accommodations.

Clients

Mike's clients include Blackstone, SEGRO plc, Harbert Management Corporation, M&G, Diageo Pension Fund, HSBC Bank Pension Fund, The Arch Company, The Office Group, Mirastar and The Northern Ireland Government Pension Fund.

Experience

• Advising SEGRO plc on its £202 million acquisition of Perivale Park from Federated Hermes.
• Advising Blackstone on the acquisition of UK student accommodation company IQ from Goldman Sachs which has been described as the UK's largest private real estate transaction.
• Acting for Diageo Pension Fund on the letting of a 310,000 sq. ft. warehouse facility at Didcot Square in South Oxfordshire.
• Advising Blackstone on the UK aspects of the acquisition of twelve logistics portfolios across Europe from Macquarie Capital and Elite Partners Capital in nine transactions for €520 million.
• Acting for M&G on the £36 million purchase of Gascoigne Road, Barking from Mirastar (where he impressed enough to help win Mirastar as a client later in the year).
• Acting on the £36 million acquisition of an industrial estate in Kingston for Mirastar.
• Advising Diageo on the £127 million sale of the 212,000 sq ft trading park - Mowlem Trading Estate – setting a record yield for industrial in London.
• Advising SEGRO on the £183 million acquisition of land in Iver for a  one million square foot data centre development.
• Advising Harbert Fund V on the £350 million purchase and finance of the Merlin portfolio of a portfolio of 15 north west sites.
• Leading on the £85 million acquisition and development funding of land in Croydon for the development of a multi-let scheme for SEGRO.
• Advising M&G on the £78 million acquisition and subsequent £99 million sale of Saffron House, Holborn. This was a real statement transaction and very high profile given it was a London office transaction in the midst of COVID-19.
• Advising on the £124 million acquisition of Nido House for Blackstone/IQ.
• Advising M&G on the £132 million purchase of Ryder Court and the £202 million sale of the Bow & Arrow portfolio.