Steven Cowins

Practice Details

• Firm Information
  Position

  Shareholder

  Firm Name

  Greenberg Traurig, LLP
• Representative Cases & Transactions
  Cases

  Experience: Fund Formation: Advising AEW Europe on the formation of its second pan-European value-add fund.
  Advising Deutsche Finance International on various pan-European m
  ates including the formation of its third European value-add real estate fund targeting in excess of EUR 1 billion of commitments
  a UK urban logistics platform.
  Advising Europa Capital on the formation of its continental diversified income fund with a target capital raise of EUR 2 billion as well as Europa value-add funds IV, V
  VI, Europa's UK debt funds
  the establishment of the Europa Generation student accommodation platform.
  Advising the UK's largest local authority pension fund, Greater Manchester Pension Fund on its investment into a GBP 25 billion + specialist fund vehicle.
  Advising Heim Global Investor on the establishment
  first close of its new GBP 700 million UK residential development fund.
  Advising Heitman on the recapitalisation,
  continuation of its German
  Dutch residential fund, valued at EUR 500 million.
  Advising NREP (now part of Urban Partners) on the formation of two German focused debt funds including its first ESG/sustainable debt fund focused on green senior
  mezzanine loan investments in Germany
  the Nordics.
  Advising Paloma Capital on the formation of its first three UK focused value-add funds
  its continuation vehicle with a cornerstone investor.
  Advising Precede Capital Partners on the establishment of,
  investment by QuadReal Property Group into, their new GBP 1 billion debt platform
  its second segregated m
  ate with QuadReal Property Group targeting mezzanine debt investments in UK real estate assets.
  Advising Revcap on the establishment of its value-add Kitty Hawk Capital Partners Funds I to IV, its core-plus Whitehawk Funds I to XI, pan-European opportunistic Sparrowhawk Funds III
  IV
  various segregated m
  ates
  joint ventures.
  Separate Accounts, Segregated M
  ates & Joint Ventures: Advising BlackRock on several products involving British Airways Pension Fund including the establishment of a life sciences vehicle valued at over GBP 1 billion.
  Advising Oaktree Capital on various European joint ventures in relation to various residential portfolios.
  Advising Valor Real Estate Partners on the formation of three separate accounts with AIG, one separate account with a US REIT
  one separate account with a large Canadian pension plan.
  M&A: Advising BlackRock (as investment adviser to the British Airways Pension Fund) on the disposal of its 25.5% interest in the Sainsbury's Reversion Portfolio with an underlying value of GBP 784 million.
  Advising a joint venture between Oxford Properties
  Trinity Investment Management / Pioneer Group on its GBP 420 million acquisition of the corporate structure which owned Victoria House, Holborn.
  Advising Valor Real Estate Partners
  AIG on the EUR 1 billion sale of their pan-European urban logistics portfolio, comprising approximately 4.5 million sq ft of real estate in the UK, France,
  Germany.
  Advising Starwood Capital on its joint venture with Lendlease
  the acquisition of the GBP 3.5 billion Silvertown GDV development site in East London.