Services

We specialize in providing financing solutions for investors, asset owners and occupiers, enabling our clients to achieve their growth, development, and capital objectives.

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Financing Solutions
  • Sell Side Advisory
  • Buy Side Advisory
  • Equity Dilution and JV Equity Raise
  • Development & Acquisition Debt Raise

 

Operational Solutions
  • Portfolio Advisory
  • Asset Leases
Real Estate
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Financing Solutions
  • Mergers & Acquisitions
  • Equity Dilution and JV Equity Raise
  • Sale & Leaseback And Built-To-Suit Funding
  • Development & Acquisition Debt Funding

 

Operational Solutions
  • Operator & Management Agreement
  • Asset Leases
  • Business Optimization
Education & Healthcare

Sectors

CoReal's niche sector expertise alongside a diverse transaction experience, ensures that we provide a highly-tailored transactional & corporate advisory solutions and facilitate the strategic delivery and execution of these solutions, according to the client objective and the specific sector.

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Real Estate

We advise on divestments & investments in institutional grade real estate assets and portfolios across the GCC, US & EU.

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Education & Healthcare

We advise on M&A, Lease & Management Agreement advisory for operating companies, as well as Sale & Leaseback and Build-to-Suit funding across the GCC.

Clients

The CoReal team has strong relationships across the market participants in real estate, education & healthcare sector having either sold or bought for them or sold to them.

  • GCC Merchant Families
  • Real Estate Asset Managers
  • REITs
  • Pension Funds
  • Developers
  • Corporates
  • Private Equity
  • Healthcare Operators
  • Education Operators
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Transactions

CoReal has advised on over US$ 3.5 billion of some of the most complex transactions in the Sectors including the recent ones mentioned below

DIFC, Dubai
  • Deal Structure
  • Asset Sale
  • Asset Class
  • Land
  • Transaction Value
  • AED 290m
  • Highlights
  • Advised EmiratesNBD on the sale of a 1.35 million SF GFA prime site at DIFC
Palm Jumeirah Dubai
  • Deal Structure
  • Asset Sale
  • Asset Class
  • Land
  • Transaction Value
  • AED 700m+
  • Highlights
  • Advised a leading UAE bank on the sale of
    a super prime 500,000 sq f development
    site at Palm Jumeirah
RTL Logistics Riyadh
  • Deal Structure
  • Asset Purchase
  • Asset Class
  • Logistics
  • Transaction Value
  • SAR 60m+
  • Highlights
  • Sourced and advised a leading regional
    asset manager on the acquisition of a
    115,000 sq f cold store in Riyadh
Sobo Residence Dubai

 

  • Deal Structure
  • Asset Sale
  • Asset Class
  • Multi Family Residential
  • Transaction Value
  • AED 38m
  • Highlights
  • Advised the owner on the sale of a multi
    family residential asset at Jumeirah
    Village Circle
HOSPITAL BTS Dubai

 

  • Deal Structure
  • Built-to-Suit/Asset Lease
  • Asset Class
  • Healthcare
  • Transaction Value
  • AED 250m+
  • Highlights
  • A 27-year lease on an under construction
    hospital asset in Mirdif, Dubai on behalf of
    the tenant.
Lycee Francaise Dubai

 

  • Deal Structure
  • Equity Sale
  • Asset Class
  • Education
  • Transaction Value
  • AED 147m
  • Highlights
  • International education enterprise
    generating annual revenues of ca. US$
    24m with 2,200 enrolled students.

Team

  • Gaurav Shivpuri

    Partner

    +971 50 426 3880

    Gaurav founded CoReal in 2019, bringing with him over 25 years of experience in the real estate sector, including more than two decades in the Middle East. His expertise spans investments, fundraising, advisory, and operations across mid- to large-scale projects.
    Over the course of his career, Gaurav has been involved in transactions exceeding US$ 3.5 billion, including debt structuring, sale and leasebacks, and build-to-suit developments across the GCC. In addition, he spearheaded the conceptualization, structuring, and fundraising of three pan-GCC real estate funds, raising over US$ 500 million in combined corpus.
    Since founding CoReal, Gaurav has successfully closed transactions worth over US$ 750 million across the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. Prior to CoReal, he spent 17 years with JLL, where he led the firm’s advisory, corporate finance, and capital markets practices in the Middle East.
    Gaurav holds an MBA from the Cornell-ESSEC program with a specialization in Real Estate Finance.
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  • Ross McLaughlin

    Director

    +971 52 956 7418

    Ross has 18 years’ experience in the UAE and GCC real estate markets. His broad experience in valuation, development advisory, transactions and asset management has seen him involved across the full real estate life-cycle.
    He has led mandates for major investors, financiers, developers and corporates, advising on notable large-scale financing mandates including the largest real estate IPO in Dubai ($47 billion) and company merger in Abu Dhabi ($12.5 billion).
    Ross’ asset management experience seen him responsible for a $100 million revenue budget across office, retail, education and residential assets.
    His experience has created a deep understanding of what drives asset value, with a proven track record of delivering income growth across portfolios.
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