King & Spalding with NBK Real Estate Fund on Hartland’s real estate sale
King & Spalding represented NBK Capital Partners Real Estate Fund on the sale of the real estate leased to Hartland International School in Dubai to Elevate, a portfolio company backed by Rava Partners in collaboration with Alta Capital.
In connection with the wider context of this deal, King & Spalding advised on the original acquisition of the school’s property in 2017. Since then, King & Spalding continued to serve the company across all phases of the investment.
The parties
Founded in 2015 as a startup , Hartland International School is an educational institution operated by Meraki Education.
NBK Capital Partners Real Estate Fund is an investor in the region, particularly active in developing premium education infrastructure in the GCC.
The King & Spalding team
The King & Spalding Dubai team advising on this transaction and the full lifecycle of the project featured partners Mike Rainey (pictured left) and Malek Al Rifai (pictured right), counsel Asal Saghari, senior associate Alex Barker, associate Husni Al Far and paralegal Sherif Saleh.
The team of Janus Henderson Emerging Markets Private Investments acted as an investment advisor to the Fund.
