• Acquisition, subsequent asset management, development and break up of several mixed use portfolios, including a predominantly retail portfolio of 42 properties for £120million, and a predominantly industrial and office portfolio of 20 properties for £60million
• Acquisition and development of eight separate sites for student accommodation, comprising a cumulative total of 1500 beds for Hong Kong and Singaporean regulated funds, managed through a UK based FCA regulated private equity investment house with an end GDV in excess of £165million, with the first two sites now having been sold for circa £40million
• Acquisition and break up of several cross border residential portfolios, including a portfolio of 1,363 properties for £157million from a major UK high street bank, and a portfolio of 511 units across 18 blocks for in excess of £50million
• Asset management of several shopping centres on behalf of both a listed UK REIT and a large private property company
• Acquisition of an SPV which owned a derelict site in Manchester for the development of a 221 bed Hampton by Hilton hotel with an end value in excess of £30m, with funding through a mixture of equity, development finance, and the creation of a ground rent interest sold for over £8m
• Forward funding and acquisition of a site at MediaCity, Salford for the erection of a build to rent development consisting of 238 units, with amenity space, parking and retail, and an end value of circa £55m
• Acting for an American fund in the provision of finance to an American based developer/operator to build out and operate three developments in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Sheffield to provide 888 beds with an end GDV of circa £105m.

• Law Society Of Scotland
• The Law Scoiety

"Alastair Cowan is recommended"

Legal 500 2015