Principal Partner of the
From 26 August to 20 September

Property Advisory

Special Situation Transactions

Unlocking Opportunity in Complexity

At PrivateInvest, our deep experience in property finance, structured finance, and asset recovery allows us to provide advisory services for special situation property transactions. We specialise in navigating complex scenarios, including distressed assets, incomplete developments, recapitalisations, and value recovery through legal or capital structuring.

Special situation advisory focuses on opportunities arising from unusual or distressed circumstances that require flexible capital and active asset management. We target transactions outside the reach of traditional capital providers, aiming to create value through disciplined execution and strategic structuring.

Why Partner with PrivateInvest

What sets us apart is our ability to combine capital, expertise, and execution, delivering strategic opportunities that are often unavailable through conventional channels.
Deep structuring expertise

Tailored solutions across debt, preferred equity, and ownership.

Hands-on execution
Active involvement in repositioning, recovery, and value-creation strategies.
Alignment of interests
Disciplined capital deployment, protecting the downside while maximising upside.

Special Situations Focus

Every special situation is unique, requiring a tailored approach that reflects the specific circumstances of the asset, the transaction, and the market environment. At PrivateInvest, our strategies are flexible across the capital stack, deploying senior debt, preferred equity, or direct ownership depending on what is required to achieve the most effective structuring and risk management.

Our approach combines rigorous analysis, structured oversight, and active management to identify value where traditional capital providers may be constrained. We work closely with borrowers, developers, and other stakeholders to understand each asset’s challenges and opportunities, ensuring that every transaction is structured with clarity, protection, and strategic intent.

For investors, this methodology seeks to provide access to opportunities that may not be widely available, enabling participation in assets where value is pursued through disciplined execution rather than reliance solely on market movements. Through active investment management, ongoing performance monitoring, and the ability to adapt strategies to changing circumstances, we aim to manage risk and pursue improved risk-adjusted outcomes, while maintaining alignment of interests between investors and the management team.

Our Special Situations focus encompasses a wide range of scenarios, including:

Distressed properties

Mortgagee sales, stalled developments, incomplete construction.

Restructuring & workouts

DOCA, administration, recapitalisation events.

Mispriced or non-core assets

Divested by institutions or corporates.

Repositioning opportunities

Rezoning, redevelopment, or re-leasing to realise hidden potential.

Investment opportunities are available exclusively to wholesale clients as defined under the Corporations Act 2001 (Cth).

Official Premier Partner

Leigh Haboldt

Construction Manager

Leigh has over 25 years of experience in the construction industry. His career began in Melbourne, where he completed a 4-year carpentry apprenticeship with a commercial builder.

During this time, he was involved in the construction of many commercial projects inclusive of Police Stations, hospitals and medical facilities, sporting complexes, retirement villages, hospitality buildings and education. From early on in his apprenticeship, Leigh undertook supervision of many small projects such as office fit-outs and shop fit-outs and art galleries.

On completion of a carpentry apprenticeship, Leigh founded LMH Carpentry & Maintenance, delivering mostly insurance maintenance repairs as well as residential and commercial renovations & extensions throughout the metropolitan area.

After relocating to Perth with his family in 2006, Leigh founded LMH Builders and applied his construction experience managing high end residential projects across Perth western suburbs ranging in value from $2m-$15m. Also undertaking commercial structures in the aviation and marine industry.

Leigh serves as Construction Manager for InvestPrivate, the PrivateInvest shareholders’ private development entity, which also holds a registered builder’s licence.

When required, Leigh assists PrivateInvest in undertaking construction related due diligence during the assessment of loan transactions. He may also inspect construction sites as part of PrivateInvest’s execution focused lending model, supporting ongoing monitoring of projects through to completion.

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Partner with PrivateInvest for a finance experience built on trust, transparency, and tailored solutions.

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