Bonnie Calnan

Partner
About

With over 20 years' experience in the real estate sector, Bonnie is trusted by leading institutional investors, including private equity firms and sovereign wealth funds. She brings together deal expertise and operational real estate insight to deliver complex transactions, including cross border portfolio deals, take privates of real estate platforms, and joint ventures. She also advises on associated asset and development management arrangements. 

Bonnie blends legal expertise with the use of legal tech and AI enabled project management to help clients scale, streamline, and de risk their most strategic investments.

Bar admissionsSolicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales

EXPERIENCE

  • Advising Blackstone on its acquisition of the Village Hotels group by way of corporate acquisition for c. GBP800 million.
  • Advising Blackstone on the GBP600 million+ take private of Industrials REIT Limited.
  • Advising Nuveen on its joint venture arrangements with a major pension fund and downstream operational joint venture and management agreements in respect of its UK self storage platform with Easi-Store.
  • Advising a global luxury real estate developer on its joint venture with a Dubai government entity to construct a mixed-use hotel and residential development in Dubai.
  • Advising Blackstone and Mileway on its aggregator portfolio for its IOS strategy across the UK and Europe
  • Advising Carlyle on the refinancing of its portfolio of flexible office buildings around central London.
Languages
  • English
Education
  • LPC, 2002 - 2003
  • University of Bristol, 1998 – 2001, LLB

Connect

Phone

+44 (0)20 7796 6443
(Work, London)