WORK HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE ​

• All real estate aspects of Corporate Disposals and Acquisitions. Examples include acting:

  • for a commercial real estate development and investment company on a £350 million corporate sale of part of an office campus in the City of London; and

  • for an international real estate investment company on a £90 million corporate sale of an office development in Mayfair.

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• Asset Disposals and Acquisitions . Examples include acting:

  • for a private developer on the sale of the reversionary interest in recently developed sites in Kings Cross (mixed-use), West Kensington (residential) and St John’s Wood (residential). The West Kensington matter involved the service of section 5 notices both in the UK and abroad pursuant to the Landlord and Tenant Act 1987;

  • for a global investment management company on a £39 million acquisition of a university accommodation site in Lincoln subject to lease;

  • for a real estate investment company on a £21 million sale of a commercial property subject to leases in central London; and
    on the sale of part of The Royal London Hospital site and six leasebacks.

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• Property Finance. Examples include acting:

  • as part of a team for a private developer on a £130 million refinancing of a site in Hackney;

  • for a real estate investment company on a £35 million facility secured over various multi-let properties on Kings Road, Chelsea; and

  • for a high street lender on a £22 million refinancing secured over nine mixed-use and four residential properties.

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• Landlord and Tenant/Asset Management. Examples include acting:

  • for a private real estate investment firm in connection with the pre-letting of restaurant and retail space in a new development on Piccadilly (with annual rents in the region of £1.5 million);

  • for a private real estate investment firm in connection with the letting of office space in a newly refurbished headquarters building in Kensington (with annual rents in the region of £2 million);

  • for one of the largest commercial real estate investment companies in connection with a complex agreement for surrender and various leasebacks plus lease regears and the grant of reversionary leases in EC4;

  • for the landlord of Tower 42 and other multi-let properties in connection with all letting and property management matters; and
    for the University of Oxford as tenant in connection with a new lease of land at John Radcliffe Hospital to enable the development of a major new research facility.

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• Development. Examples include acting:

  • for one of the largest commercial real estate development companies on the redevelopment of a site just off Fleet Street and a site on the South Bank;

  • for a private developer on a £13.5 million acquisition of an old sorting office in Islington, being acquired for mixed-use redevelopment; and

  • for a private developer on a £12.7 million joint venture acquisition of a site in Clapham, being acquired for mixed-use redevelopment.

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• Residential. Examples include acting:

  • for a local authority on the acquisition of multiple residential properties within a short space of time; and 

  • for high net worth individuals on the acquisition of prime London residential properties.

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