Alexander
Barker

At his previous firm, Alex advised on a variety of real estate transactions including:

Funds managed by Ares Real Estate in the £400m acquisition of a portfolio of hotels in the UK.

The landowner of Earl’s Court on the redevelopment and regeneration of over 40 acres of brownfield land at Earl’s Court to deliver circa 4,000 homes including advising on various related land purchases and development constraints.

Cortland Partners on the forward purchase and simultaneous financing of a 559-unit build-to-rent scheme in Manchester, UK.

Blackstone supported by iQ Student Accommodation (a Blackstone portfolio company) on the acquisition of two purpose-built student accommodation assets comprising over 1000 beds in the UK.

Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC and funds managed by Greystar on several acquisitions of built-to-rent and purpose built student accommodation assets in London including the purchase of a development site comprising a hotel and office space in central Croydon for redevelopment as a build-to-rent scheme comprising over 700 units.

A life sciences company on the purchase and development forward funding of a site for use as lab and office space.

Oxford Properties advised by M7 Real Estate in several purchases of retail parks and logistics sites around the UK.

A US based REIT on the property due diligence side of its multi million pound acquisition of a holiday park operator with a portfolio of holiday parks in the UK.

Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies on the property due diligence side of a financing of a portfolio of retail parks in the UK.