Real Estate M&A
Matheson has advised on a number of the most high-profile Real Estate M&A transactions in the Irish market. The cross-departmental Real Estate M&A Group, made up of highly experienced deal specialists from our Real Estate, Construction, Corporate, Tax, Funds and Banking departments sets us apart in the market.
Given the wide range of complex issues that arise on Real Estate M&A transactions, the multidisciplinary team is equipped with the experience and expertise to meet its clients’ diverse needs. Group clients include sophisticated private equity sponsors, publicly-traded REITs, international acquirers, significant pension organisations, sovereign wealth funds and other institutional investors active in this space.
Matheson’s Real Estate M&A Group advises on all matters connected to our clients’ real estate and real estate-related activities, from structuring and fundraising to deployment of capital – including mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, take-privates and restructuring.
The Group is also highly experienced on the leverage aspects of real estate transactions and regularly advises both lenders and borrowers across the entire capital structure.
The Group’s unique experience has been built up over years of applying a multi-disciplinary approach to advising both domestic and international clients across all major asset classes including office, industrial and logistics, data centres, infrastructure, retail, hotel, leisure, residential “buy-to-let” sectors and large-scale mixed use and multi-family developments.
With Matheson’s broad and deep knowledge of the Irish real estate market and regulatory and tax landscape, the Real Estate M&A Group is equipped to both deal with the ever-changing and rapidly growing real estate market while remaining laser focused on delivering solutions for its new and existing clients.
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Experience Highlights
Matheson has unrivalled experience in the Real Estate M&A sector, having advised:
- Goldman Sachs on the sale of Blanchardstown Centre, one of Ireland’s leading shopping destinations, to Strategic Value Partners, LLC (the largest real estate deal of the year in 2024).
- Arrow Global Adviser Limited and Eagle Street Partners Ireland Limited on their acquisition of the Square Shopping Centre through the acquisition of Oaktree’s Indego group of companies.
- Pandox AB on the recommended cash offer of €1.4billion for the Dalata Hotel Group one of the largest real estate M&A deals in the Irish market in 2025.
- Cellnex Telecom, Europe’s largest operator of towers and telecom infrastructures, on the sale of its Irish business to Phoenix Tower International.
- Blackrock, global investment manager, on the acquisition of Jacobs Inn Dublin and the subsequent sale of the asset to Azora, a Spanish real asset investment firm.
- Macquarie Asset Management in relation to its acquisition of the Beacon Hospital Group, one of Ireland’s most technologically advanced private hospitals, serving more than 200,000 patients each year.
- Macquarie Asset Management in relation to its acquisition of Beauparc, the leading Irish and UK recycling and processing led waste-to-resource business spanning domestic and commercial waste management, renewable energy supply, recycling collection and processing, logistics, green fuels and recovery energy, a business that comprised many different real estate asset classes spanning large operational waste management plants to office blocks to landfill sites.
- CA Ventures as part of a joint venture with Harrison Street Real Estate in the financing of a development site at Parnell Street, Dublin for the construction of a 240-plus bed student accommodation scheme.
- Goldman Sachs on the financing of Blackstone’s purchase of the Blanchardstown Shopping Centre and the subsequent re-structuring and acquisition of Blackstone’s interest.
- BC8 on its acquisition of The Talbot Group, a leading real estate heavy provider of services for adults with an intellectual disability and acquired brain injury, and its subsequent sale of the Talbot Group to DIF Capital Partners.
- Brookfield in respect of the acquisition of lands in connection with the development of a windfarm in Co. Tipperary.
- Irving Oil on the Tedcastle Group acquisition of a portfolio of over 130 real estate properties located throughout Ireland.
- Orpea SA, the nursing home provider, on their first acquisition in the Irish market along with a number of follow-on acquisitions of various nursing homes across Ireland to establish their position as the largest operator in the market.
- Blackstone on the financing of the development by Lioncor of the Glassbottle site in Dublin, which when completed will be the single largest residential development in Dublin City comprising over 3,500 units.
- Wells Fargo and Bank of America on the acquisition financing to Blackstone for the purchase of the SalesForce Tower, the largest single office block in the Dublin market.
- Oxley on the purchase, development, letting and sale of its Dublin Landings development comprising 600,000 sq ft of office space, 330 PRS units, retail and leisure and on the development, letting and sale of its Dublin Arch development comprising 400,000 square ft of office space, 200 PRS units, a 150 key Hotel, retail and leisure.
- Kennedy Wilson on the acquisition and financing of its industrial portfolio in Ireland.
- Barings on the financing to KKR and Palm Capital in connection with its acquisition of the Core Industrial Portfolio.
- Arrow on the acquisition of Start Mortgage Group which includes over 12,000 residential mortgages.
