Following the purchase of the Sanderson Hotel in London from Qatari Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani, Israeli property tycoon Amir Dayan (אמיר דיין) is planning massive renovations. The billionaire hotel magnate Amir Dayan plans to include luxury restaurants and a member only club in the facility with aims to making the Sanderson the number one lifestyle establishment in London.
Vivion, a real estate firm based in Luxembourg, is backed by Israeli tycoon Amir Dayan’s family. Vivion purchased the 204-room St. Martins Lane and 150-room Sanderson hotels in a deal worth $333M (255M pounds) from the family office of former Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thani.
Amir Dayan is a major shareholder of Vivion, and a member of its advisory board. According to reports published in The Times, Sheikh Hamad originally purchased the hotels 8 years ago for 192M pounds, yielding around 62 million pounds in profit.
Despite several other competing companies offering more money for the hotels, sources close to the deal claim the acquisition and significant discount was made possible due to the close friendship between the Israeli billionaire Amir Dayan and Qatar’s former Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad. The sources added that several more deals between the two prominent businessmen are being discussed.
Amir Dayan Family Investments
Amir Dayan משה ואמיר דיין ומשפחת אמיר דיין was born in Tel Aviv, Israel, in 1974 to a large prominent family of entrepreneurs. Since 2005, the Israeli investor and businessman specializes in the acquisition of commercial real estate and management with his family.
Amir Dayan is primarily active in the European hotel business industry, mainly in the Netherlands, Romania, UK, and Germany. Dayan is also a shareholder in various other companies like Golden Capital.
The global pandemic affecting the real estate industry seems not to have affected Mr. Dayan’s investments. Another company owned by Amir Dayan, Lianeo Real Estate, recently published a significant increase in both new leases and the extension of existing rental contracts for 2020. For example,
Lianeo was able to successfully negotiate an extension to an existing rental agreement with a German State Office for Geoinformation and Land Surveying for an additional 15 years. The lease extension pertains to the rental of 13,500 square meters in an office building in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony.
