Mark And Fellow Fund Manager Hold Talks Over Possible €10B Merger
UK-based Mark Capital Management has held early-stage talks with Amsterdam-headquartered Orange Capital Partners over a potential merger that would create a €10B real estate company, according to Green Street News.
Both companies have around €5B in assets under management and are understood to have been looking at ways to expand at scale as the market enters a new cycle. Discussions are thought to be on hold until 2026, with OCP also free to speak to other potential partners.
Mark Capital Partners is a privately held real estate investment management firm specialising in urban, mixed-use and value-add real estate. The company was founded in 2004 as Meyer Bergman and established a track record in acquiring and repositioning prime retail and mixed-use assets in major cities.
In October 2020, Meyer Bergman rebranded as Mark to reflect a shift away from a retail focus and toward a multi-asset strategy including residential, offices, logistics, life sciences and digital real estate.
Under the Mark banner, the firm has launched or expanded several specialist platforms, including Crossbay, a last-mile logistics platform targeting distribution assets near major cities, and Doma, a residential investment platform formed with Credit Suisse Asset Management to build a €1B pan-European rental housing portfolio.
Among its highest-profile recent schemes is Borough Yards, a major mixed-use regeneration project in Southwark adjacent to Borough Market. Completed and opened in phases from 2021-2022, Borough Yards covers roughly 200K SF. Mark acquired the site in 2016 and has invested around £300M in its redevelopment.
Established in 2014 by former Goldman Sachs banker Victor Van Bommel, OCP is a midsized European real estate investment and asset management firm with around 75 staff across its Amsterdam headquarters, Dublin, Copenhagen and Helsinki.
OCP has positioned itself as a specialist in sectors supported by long-term demographic and structural trends, particularly housing, student accommodation and other living formats in supply-constrained urban markets. The firm combines investment management with in-house asset management and development.
Residential real estate forms the core of OCP’s strategy, and the firm has built portfolios in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Spain, focusing on cities with strong employment growth, expanding populations and ongoing housing shortages.
None of the parties commented on the report.
