Managing Associate

Michael Condlyffe

M&A
Real Estate

mcondlyffe@sidley.com

London +44 20 7360 3633

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MICHAEL CONDLYFFE focuses his practice on real estate and real estate finance. He has wide-ranging experience of acquisitions, disposals, development, restructuring, financing, and leasing. Michael’s experience covers a wide range of asset classes including commercial offices, retail, leisure and hospitality, senior living facilities, development sites, student accommodation, telecommunications networks, infrastructure, and energy projects.

Michael has worked with private equity funds, institutional investors, corporate occupiers, landlords, and developers. He has also advised on a number of M&A transactions where real estate is a key component.

Experience

Michael’s experience includes advising:

Recharge Industries, a portfolio company of Scale Facilitation, on its acquisition of Britishvolt Limited and Gigafactory site in Northumberland.
Northwood Investors on the Sale of 20 Gracechurch Street in London.
KKR on its majority acquisition of Biosynth Carbosynth, a Swiss life sciences reagents and custom synthesis and manufacturing services company.
a UK power-generation company in connection with various acquisitions and disposals of operating assets as well as associated financing arrangements.
a variety of corporate landlords and institutional investors on acquisition and disposal agreements, agreements for lease, leases, and licenses.
a number of corporate occupiers including a FTSE 100 food and drinks manufacturing business and an international law firm in relation to the relocation of their headquarters.
an international construction group on its merger arrangements for a combined consideration of £270 million.
on the sale of a £5 billion asset portfolio (containing a number of owner-occupied and buy-to-let mortgage assets) to a consortium of institutional investors.
one of the UK’s leading food byproduct manufacturers on an international business purchase.
an international telecoms operator on the commercialization of the UK’s largest tower company.
a holiday and leisure company on the sale of a stake in its business to two investment funds.
a private equity fund on the acquisitions of various leisure and hospitality businesses.
on the acquisition and development of a UK senior living facility.
an English Premier League football club on an over-station development for student accommodation and separately a battery storage project at the club’s stadium.
an international manufacturing company on its multibillion euro financing arrangements.
a number of hospitality businesses on compulsory voluntary arrangements and associated landlord and tenant matters.

*Some of the above matters were handled by Michael prior to joining Sidley.

Credentials

Admissions & Certifications

England and Wales (Solicitor)

Education

BPP University Law School, Graduate Diploma in Law, 2015 (Distinction)
University of Cambridge, B.A. (Hons), 2014