MPT is a NYSE-listed real estate investment trust (REIT) that acquires, develops, and invests in healthcare facilities, leasing these facilities to healthcare operating companies and providers.
The multi-disciplinary ABL team advising MPT on the transaction included Partner Jonathan Wenig and Senior Associate Scott Phillips (Corporate & Commercial); Partner Ben Mahoney (Banking and Finance), and Partner Ken Gray and Senior Associate Dorian Henneron (Property & Development).
Ben Mahoney congratulated MPT on behalf of the ABL team: “This is a great outcome for MPT, particularly given the complexity of the deal structure required to make the transaction work. We look forward to assisting MPT on the path toward settlement.”
Scott Phillips added: “This transaction is a great example of foreign investors’ appetite for quality Australian social infrastructure assets. It is great to see investors of the calibre of MPT choose to invest in the assets that Australia needs to care for our growing and ageing population.”
As referenced in MPT’s announcement, the transaction will further enhance MPT’s tenant and geographic diversification objectives. Edward K. Aldag Jr - MPT’s Chairman, President and CEO - commented: “We are very excited to enter 2019 with the opportunity to establish a new long-term relationship with Brookfield and Healthscope, Australia’s second largest private hospital operator”.
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