Commercial Real Estate

Our team advises on a wide range of transactions and issues including in relation to the following:

  • Development
  • Landlord and tenant
  • Investment
  • Corporate real estate
  • Real estate finance
  • Management agreements

We work with other teams in the firm to enable the firm to provide a seamless and co-ordinated service to its clients.
The members of the team have advised on the following:

  • Leading the provision of commercial property services and advice to several major London landed estates including the Cadogan Estate and the Sloane Stanley Estate.
  • Advising on the preparations for first registration of a London landed estate.
  • Advising (as seconded in-house counsel) a listed property company in connection with a complex mixed use regeneration scheme relating to a substantial site in West London.
  • Advising on the acquisition and disposal of a number of landmark City and West End office investments including the sale of a corporate structure holding the UK HQ of a major global bank.
  • Advising on the appointment of a development manager by a local authority in connection with a significant Central London regeneration project.
  • Advising a developer in connection with the redevelopment of part of an historic town centre.
  • Advising the landlord on the pre-let of a refurbished flagship Oxford Street store.
  • Obtaining vacant possession of a mixed use property following significant damage by preparing and serving over 200 break notices.
  • Advising on the corporate acquisition of a boutique hotel in central London.
  • Advising on the sale of a 30 acre site for development in southern England.
  • Advising on the purchase of a development site to be constructed as a Waitrose supermarket in Hampshire.
  • Advising a leading supermarket on the acquisition of a number of new store sites in central London.
  • Advising a University on it taking leases for its main campus buildings in central London.
  • Advising major high street clearing banks and other banks on the property aspects of a number of multi-million pound real estate finance transactions and restructuring transactions.
  • Advising a leading chain of restaurants on the acquisition of new retail and office premises in Central London.
  • Advising a company in the acquisition and subsequent disposal of a golf course with planning permission for a multi-million pound development in Cheshire.