A Corporate Real Estate team with extensive experience advising on complex and high-profile real estate backed corporate transactions
Operating as part of a broader real estate group comprised of more than 130 lawyers, including 45 Partners, our corporate real estate team is able to work seamlessly with experts across real estate, finance, tax and litigation to advise many of the sector's most prominent clients on their most sophisticated deals. We advise clients across the full spectrum of corporate real estate transactions - from single asset trades, joint venture platforms, all the way through to pan-European operating businesses.
Our experience gives us an unparalleled understanding of the nuances and challenges investors operating in the real estate sector face, providing best-in-class advice on acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, developments, forward funds, asset and development management, structuring, financing, take privates and everything in between.
Our clients range from developers, publicly quoted companies, financial institutions, private equity investors, sovereign wealth funds and property funds to private investors, corporate occupiers and retailers and property services companies.
Providing expertise to a diverse clientele in corporate real estate
- Mergers, acquisitions and takeovers of real estate backed operating businesses
- Joint venture and consortia arrangements, including transfer of assets, profit extraction, financing and exit strategies
- Establishment, acquisition or disposal of special purpose vehicles (SPVs), limited partnerships and LLPs
- Property funds, unit trusts and other investment vehicles
- REITs
- Public/private sector collaboration JVs for large scale regeneration
- IPOs and fundraisings for property companies (LSE Main Market and AIM)
- Distressed asset and debt portfolio transactions
- Corporate reorganisations
- Real estate agencies acquisitions and disposals