mike pashley

Investment Director

Mike joined the investment team as an Investment Director in July 2021. He is a Chartered Accountant and has over twenty five years of experience in real estate transactions as European Finance Director at Apollo Real Estate Advisors (“AREA”) and then at ARES Management after the takeover in 2013.

Mike gained international experience in his early career at Ernst & Young with a year in Singapore and three years in Hong Kong, where he specialised in financial services. After leaving E&Y, Mike joined Lehman Brothers as European Financial Controller. After two and a half years in investment banking and having been involved in the real estate transactions of Lehman Brothers, Mike decided to move into real estate private equity with AREA.

At AREA Mike was responsible for overseeing the fund reporting, tax, accounting and cash management of calling capital and distributions for the real estate funds raised and managed by AREA/ARES. In addition, Mike was involved in deal structuring and documentation, obtaining third party financing, tax reporting, hedging and performance reporting.

Mike worked with Frank Croston and Chris Evans on the hotel transactions that AREA invested in, with Hamilton appointed as owners representative for all hotel investments. These included transactions in the UK, Spain and Holland.