Real estate lawyers

Advised on a £50m portfolio refinancing for an estate trust and the £50m real estate acquisition facility for a REIT.

Advised on a £7.2m development facility loan to a residential property developer and two further acquisition and development facilities.

Advised on various accessions to a £80m facility for acquisition of a number of large retail sheds.

Advised on an £18.75m refinancing facility for two Jersey SPVs in relation to a multi-let office building in London and a large retail shed in Redditch.

Advised on funding a zero
carbon regeneration scheme providing commercial space
and 800 homes on a 36ha site.

Acted on the acquisition of an office block in Victoria for redevelopment from House of Fraser Stores and the acquisition of a former BAE building that was then split into 15 B1 units to be sold on long leases.

Advised on the acquisition of the landmark Royal Crescent Hotel from the administrators of von Essen Hotels, Ernst & Young.

Successfully defended a local council's High Court challenge in respect of a decision of the Secretary of State to grant planning permission.

Advised on over £150m of transacted assets in a single year.

Advised on acquisition of a mixed use scheme of circa 4,000 units, including an ongoing consortium role in further expansion areas.

Advised on phased redevelopment of a major retail scheme in Trowbridge town centre.

Advised on development agreement as part of bid to the LA vehicle, Taunton Vision, to be the preferred developer for regeneration of part of Taunton town centre.

Advised on the purchase of Lakeside House, a 101,000 sq ft 4 storey prime office building, which was fully let to National Grid on a 10-year lease. The purchase completed within 3 working days of instructions to proceed

Advised on development
agreement for the regeneration
of a substantial part of
Swindon town centre

Advised on the acquisition of 90 Queen Street London EC4 from Great Portland Estates for £61M

Advised as Secretary of State for Environment overrules local planning authority on 55.6 hectare site

Advised and negotiated a promotion agreement and successful planning application for 385 homes

Advised on obtaining planning
permission together with
completion of infrastructure
agreements for a major
mixed-use urban
regeneration scheme

Advised on a scheme of up to 3,000 units - memorandum of understanding, exclusivity and profit share agreements, collaboration and promotion agreements

Acted in refinancing of Mission Marketing Group 

Advised on its loan facilities to Pyros Environmental Limited, for its acquisition of the waste management business of Veolia at Fawley

Advised in relation to the new facilities and the acquisition

Advised on all property aspects and the planning strategy for a 50MW wind project in Norfolk

Defended application to register land as a village green undertaking necessary research, obtaining historical and witness evidence and successfully resisting the application at public inquiry

Proposed scheme with potential for
Eco-Village status circa 3,300 units
– review of existing options and
contracts, release of existing
overage with legal charges and
setting up company for third party
land acquisition

Advised on the award winning
redevelopment of St Pancras
International Station, from headlease
acquisition to retail letting,
construction and media advice

Proposed strategic rail linked
development in excess of 1m
sq ft – option agreements, planning,
highways and other strategic
development issues

Advised several closed-end funds on legal and tax structures and on-going IPO of fund for €£40m

Advised on planning/CPO
issues for a strategic
land holding to provide
1,000 homes

Strategic land development for
1,400 units - joint venture
agreement, s.106 agreement, land
swaps, affordable housing and
infrastructure agreements

Advised in relation to a scheme of circa 5,000 houses consortium agreement, partitioning scheme and equalisation of value structure

Acted for CBRE Global Investors in the £29.9m sale and leaseback deal for a portfolio of 9 PSA Peugeot Citroën car showrooms across the UK

Advised on the acquisition of Palazzo Biandrà Milan for €100m, a prestigious office building of 13000 sqm 

Advised on the sale of its stake in the Wood Wharf Limited Partnership and restructuring of its property interests at the site with Canary Wharf Group

Advised on acquisition and refinancing of 1-3 Hammersmith Broadway in excess of £8m

Obtained clearance
from HMRC that no SDLT due in
relation to a building licence
arrangement with overage

A scheme for up to 8,000 units -
freehold purchases, overage,
charges, tenancies, leasebacks,
guarantees, option agreements and
pre-emptions

Advised on the mixed-use
development, Hanham Hall,
Bristol - England’s first eco
village, which includes c200
residential units

Advised on syndicated real estate facility for €€200m

Advised on CPO issues on the regeneration of Newton Abbott town centre

Advised on the development of a retail investment structure for a range of investments attracted business property relief