Based in our London office, Samuel Charlton is a Partner in the Firm’s Real Estate Department. Samuel concentrates his practice on private equity real estate acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures on behalf of leading international fund sponsors.
He has notably advised Blackstone in multiple transactions, including in respect of the acquisition of a portfolio of over 200 Swedish logistics and industrial assets from Castellum for $2.2 billion, its JV with Optimum Asset Management investing in a 30 asset real estate portfolio spanning residential and business properties in Germany, valued at approximately €800 million, its JV with Telereal Trillium for the £1.46 billion acquisition of part of Network Rail’s commercial estate portfolio, its minority investment in Logicor, its €340 million sale of the DoubleTree Amsterdam Hotel, its £190 million sale of the DoubleTree Westminster Hotel and its £300 million sale of the DoubleTree Tower of London Hotel, its acquisition of OfficeFirst Immobilien AG and its sale, alongside partner Round Hill Capital, of a €1.3 billion residential real estate portfolio to Heimstaden Bostad AB. Samuel has also advised Boreal on its joint venture with Cadillac Fairview to build a €3 billion European logistics portfolio and Hotel Investment Partners on its acquisition of six hotels on the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.
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Education
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Cornell Law School, 2010 J.D.
cum laude
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Johns Hopkins University, 2007 B.A.
Associations
- New York State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
Samuel Charlton is a Partner in the Firm’s Real Estate Department. Samuel concentrates his practice on private equity real estate acquisitions, dispositions and joint ventures on behalf of leading international fund sponsors.
He has notably advised Blackstone in multiple transactions, including in respect of the acquisition of a portfolio of over 200 Swedish logistics and industrial assets from Castellum for $2.2 billion, its JV with Optimum Asset Management investing in a 30 asset real estate portfolio spanning residential and business properties in Germany, valued at approximately €800 million, its JV with Telereal Trillium for the £1.46 billion acquisition of part of Network Rail’s commercial estate portfolio, its minority investment in Logicor, its €340 million sale of the DoubleTree Amsterdam Hotel, its £190 million sale of the DoubleTree Westminster Hotel and its £300 million sale of the DoubleTree Tower of London Hotel, its acquisition of OfficeFirst Immobilien AG and its sale, alongside partner Round Hill Capital, of a €1.3 billion residential real estate portfolio to Heimstaden Bostad AB. Samuel has also advised Boreal on its joint venture with Cadillac Fairview to build a €3 billion European logistics portfolio and Hotel Investment Partners on its acquisition of six hotels on the islands of Sardinia and Sicily.
Samuel received his J.D. cum laude, from Cornell Law School in 2010 and his B.A. from Johns Hopkins University in 2007.