Chris Beaumont-McQuillan
Partner
Abu Dhabi
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Overview
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Experience
Introduction
Chris leads our Real Estate team in the Middle East, delivering high value deals for sophisticated global clients.
Chris Beaumont McQuillan is Ashurst Perkins Coie's Head of Real Estate in the Middle East. With a focus on Private Equity Real Estate ("PERE"), Chris acts on inbound, outbound and domestic structures and transactions for regional and global GPs, LPs, operators and funders in the real estate and infrastructure space. His clients include some of the world's largest PE funds, asset managers, sovereigns, family offices, insurers, pension funds, REITs, financial institutions, hotel owners and operators, and developers.
Chris advises across the whole real estate lifecycle and capital stack, but with a particular focus on high value JVs, club deals, private funds, opco/propco arrangements, competitive auction processes, mezz and pref financing, asset management, and exits.
His sector experience spans hotels and leisure, the "living" sectors (especially purpose‑built student accommodation), data centers, industrial and logistics, and large‑scale development platforms.
Chris regularly transacts on cross-border deals, which have spanned the Middle East, the UK, Continental Europe, the United States, Asia and Africa.
- AREIT | Advised on numerous equity and debt events, including the disposal to Sweid & Sweid of Aurora Tower, Dubai.*
- UAE Family Office | Advising on numerous big ticket real estate and infrastructure JVs and disposals in the UAE.
- Middle East Family Office | Advised on CMA fund vehicles and development JVs in the GCC.*
- Global Financial Services Institution | Advised on numerous significant corporate lettings and acquisitions, across the UK, Asia and Middle East (KAFD and ADGM).
- European Infrastructure Company | Advised on various matters, including strategic JV with UAE government entity, and various development musatahas and leases across the UAE.*
- Global Luxury Hotel Brand | Advised on various matters, including management agreements relating to new hotel in Saudi Arabia, and disposal of hotel in UAE.
- Global Luxury Hotel Brand | Advised on various matters, including management agreements relating to new hotels in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.*
- European Asset Manager | Advised on long-term, programmatic JV with Asian sovereign fund to invest in and develop multi-let industrial (MLI) schemes.*
- European Asset Manager | Advised on GBP 500 million auction disposal to Asian family office of 18-asset hotel portfolio.*
- US REIT | Advised on JV arrangements (including exit therefrom), development, financing, and ultimate USD 1 billion structured disposal to PE buyer of major stabilized PBSA portfolio.*
* Deals and experience prior to joining the firm