About

General counsel (Latin America) at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA), David Handelsmann is branded an ‘experienced and extremely capable attorney.’ In an active past 18 months, Handelsmann has been involved in high value and innovative transactions including a $367m follow-on capital raising by Macquarie’s Mexican Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), FIBRA Macquarie. The deal faced significant regulatory scrutiny following the introduction of new REIT regulations in 2014 and required investor approval for changes to FIBRA Macquarie’s governing documents. Needing to act quickly ‘we ensured that we were across the detail of the new regulations as soon as they were published and worked hand-in-hand with external counsel to adapt our governing documents as required’. Handelsmann also played a leading role in $214.6m of real estate M&A transactions that consolidated FIBRA Macquarie’s position as one of the largest owners of industrial real estate in Mexico. One source says, ‘David has a unique endurance during the deals, he is always focused. He has the full picture throughout the entire deal; he understands everything that is going on in a transaction and has a clear mind when decisions are needed’. Handelsmann himself says ‘as a legal team that is embedded with the business, we influence the strategic direction of the company by being part of the deal teams that evaluate and prosecute investment opportunities’.