About M&G.
End to end capabilities across all aspects of real estate – from concept and planning, to design and delivery through to funding and investment management – generate superior economic, social and environmental outcomes.
Integrated Real Estate Model.
Our urbanization led strategy, centred on an integrated model of Investment, Development and Construction, delivering a program of mixed-use real estate projects and residential property master-planning, is uniquely placed to adapt to prevailing market conditions as opportunities arise across a range of real estate sectors.
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Shariah Compliance.
We have decades of experience in selecting the right assets for clients who seek Shariah-compliant investments. We assess each asset for its conformity with Islamic principles and seek the endorsement of a qualified Shariah scholar before we consider it for their portfolios.
When you partner M&G, your real estate strategy is built from scratch around you and your ethics. We ensure that you have an expertly crafted, well-diversified asset portfolio, performance managed to achieve superior returns.
Our Philosophy.
Our principles and values define how we do business – they drive our thinking, actions, processes and benchmarks. While we’re committed to growth and progress, we know the integrity of the journey is just as important as the destination we work towards.
Our Experience.
M&G specialize in off market real estate investments and development. The Directors bring 25-years of experience in our core markets, maintaining senior family office, SWF and institutional relationships pivotal to aligning collective investment mandates with bespoke real estate opportunities.
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Fostering senior relationships with the Ruler's Courts, a prime government body in each core jurisdiction, M&G align Sovereign mandates to deliver international landmark projects.
A willingness to undertake ambitious and considered projects, to challenge the status quo,
& collaborate with a range of partners to generate the right
solutions are key elements in M&G's approach.
These, combined with patience & thoughtfulness,
experience & humility,
lead to achieving great outcomes.
The Team.
With 25 years experience and long term family office relationships, Co-Managing Directors Edward Magan and
Ben Ganley connect commercially astute real estate investors with uniquely curated international opportunities.
Edward Magan
Co-Managing Director
1999 – 2005 British Army (Irish Guards).
2006 – 2007 Jones Lang LaSalle.
City Investment Division under Nigel Fox.
2008 – 2014 Chelsfield Partners LLP.
Elliott Bernard & Stuart Lipton & Qatar Investment Authority partners.
2014 Fahad International. KSA based multi-sector family office.
2015 – 2020 Southern Africa special situations venture capital.
Natural resources-based investment portfolio
2020 – 2023 Multi-jurisdictional contentious trust & corporate restructuring.
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Ben Ganley
Co-Managing Director
For the past 15 years Ben has served as CEO and Senior Advisor to a portfolio of distinguished Middle East Islamic Sovereign Wealth Funds, Family Offices and Investment Firms, executing commercial restructures and strategy mandates to consolidate, enhance or exit group holdings and new market entry.
Ben has (re)financed multiple rounds of Islamic financing resulting in being awarded the prestigious Islamic Finance News award for “Most Innovative Deal of the Year” in 2019 and executed numerous fundraising mandates and commercial asset sales to institutional REIT’s.
In 2008, Ben was mandated by the distinguished Al Khorafi family office in Kuwait to support the acquisition of Liverpool Football Club. Ben served the family for a further 6 years, listing RAK Real Estate in London on ICAP Securities for USD 988MM in Q1, 2009 while congruently completing a reverse takeover of Rafco International Real Estate KSC.
Prior to relocating to the Middle East, Ben worked with Deloitte in Corporate Re-Organization and thereafter joined ASX listed Lend Lease Retail and Lend Lease Communities before relocating to the United Kingdom in 2005 to support the restructure and launch of two private equity firm’s targeting social infrastructure and affordable housing.
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