Patrick Hennessy

Paddy’s experience prior to joining Latham includes advising:

• Brookfield Asset Management on:
  • Acquiring 19 student housing portfolios across Spain and Portugal and related joint venture arrangements
  • Its €1.2 billion sale of the Iberian PBSA Livensa Living portfolio to Nido Living
  • Acquiring the Gazeley logistics business and its subsequent €2.5 billion disposal to Global Logistics Properties
  • Acquiring Center Parcs, as well as on ongoing management and ownership matters
  • Establishing a multi-tiered joint venture to facilitate the acquisition of an iconic London office building
  • A programmatic JV to acquire logistics and industrial assets across CEE
  • Establishing a programmatic joint venture to acquire a UK portfolio of multi-family homes and single-family homes
  • Acquiring a portfolio of boutique hotels across Europe
  • Acquiring a controlling interest in a group of French companies comprising a student housing business, a hotel apartment operator business, and a construction and developer business, as well as on implementing related management incentive plans
  • Renegotiating shareholders’ agreements relating to the holding structure of a French student housing company, hotel apartment operator, and construction company
  • Establishing a programmatic joint venture investing in French logistics and industrial assets
  • The programmatic joint venture with Panattoni to acquire and develop assets in numerous jurisdictions
  • Acquiring Temprano Capital Partners and implementing related management incentive plans
• Apollo Global Management on:
  • Acquiring Gatehouse Living Group, a vertically integrated UK residential investment and management platform, as well as on implementing the related management incentives scheme arrangements
  • The take-private of Atlantic Leaf, a South African and Mauritian dual-listed company owning an extensive portfolio of UK industrial real estate assets
  • Selling the majority of the Atlantic Leaf portfolio to third-party logistics investors
  • Its proposed acquisition of a portfolio of companies to create and manage a residential property platform
  • Its proposed auction sale of a portfolio of hotels located throughout the UK
  • Acquiring a portfolio of UK real estate assets from receivers for £310 million
• Centerbridge Partners on:
  • Acquisition and joint venture arrangements for a portfolio of boutique hotels in Belgium and Holland, and on implementing related management incentive plans
  • Acquisition and joint venture arrangements for a portfolio of industrial open-storage assets across Europe
  • Acquiring a portfolio of logistics assets in Germany, the UK, Switzerland, Poland, and Hungary
  • Establishing a joint venture to acquire a business park in the UK (via the purchase of the property holding vehicles) and implementing associated incentive arrangements
  • Refinancing M7 Real Estate Limited’s external debt facilities
  • Acquiring various property holding companies in Europe
• Related Argent on:
  • A joint venture in relation to the first major phase of an £8 billion development at Brent Cross Town, a new town in North London
  • Its joint venture with Invesco Real Estate to deliver £600 million of gross development value at the £8 billion Brent Cross Town (London) project
  • Its joint venture with NTT to create a BTR and MFS scheme at the £8 billion Brent Cross Town (London) project
  • Its joint venture with NTT to create the fourth BTR scheme at the £8 billion Brent Cross Town (London) project
  • Its joint venture with The Olayan Group for the BTR development in the UK at the Triangle Site on York Way, part of the King’s Cross Estate in London
  • The business transfer and acquisition arrangements for the business and operations of King’s Cross, London
  • The proposed disposal of certain high-profile residential sites in the UK (via property holding companies)
  • Restructuring the funding arrangements for the Argent Related joint venture
  • Various group governance and management incentive arrangements
• Blue Owl Digital Infrastructure (previously IPI Partners) on:
  • Acquiring Supernap Italia, the owner of a portfolio of data centers in Italy
  • Acquiring (and implementing joint venture arrangements relating to) Safe Host, the owner of a portfolio of data centers in Switzerland
  • A proposed joint venture with a Spain-based asset manager to create a programmatic data center portfolio in Spain
  • A proposed joint venture with a UK-based asset manager to create a programmatic data center portfolio in the UK
  • A proposed joint venture with a France-based asset manager to create a programmatic data center portfolio in France
  • A proposed joint venture with a Denmark-based asset manager to create a programmatic data center portfolio in the Nordics
  • The proposed sale of an Italian portfolio of data centers to a continuation vehicle
• Trinity Investments on:
  • Acquiring The Standard Hotel (London) from Crosstree
  • Acquiring The Hoxton Hotel (Barcelona)
  • Proposed joint venture arrangements in connection with establishing its European operations
• Reef + Partners on:
  • Its joint venture arrangements with a sovereign wealth fund in connection with acquiring a London public square and subsequent development of a state-of-the-art healthcare facility
  • Its proposed venture and management arrangements relating to aa business and science park in the UK
• Realty Income on:
  • Acquiring a portfolio of supermarkets and other UK commercial properties
  • Acquiring a portfolio of companies owning Tesco supermarkets in the UK
  • Acquiring a portfolio of companies owning B&Q superstores in the UK
  • Various joint venture arrangements to develop assets in various European jurisdictions, including the UK, Germany, and Italy