EXPERTISE
Daniel is a corporate lawyer who has spent his career working exclusively in the real estate sector. He regularly advises clients on structured acquisitions and disposals of real estate assets, joint ventures, management agreements, private equity funding arrangements, W&I Insurance and fund formations. Daniel's clients include private equity funds, debt funds, asset managers, developers, family offices and financial institutions. Daniel has facilitated investments in all sub-sectors of real estate, including BTR, Student, Office, Logistics, Retail, Data Centres, Co-living, Science Parks and Real Estate Debt.
Daniel is head of the Real Estate Investments and Private Funds Group and is also head of the "innovations and alternatives" real estate sub-sector at Addleshaw Goddard.
- Experience
- Advised British Land on the acquisition of 9 retail parks for circa £600m in two inter connected transactions
- Advised Realty Income on the acquisition of 11 shopping centres from Epic plc for circa £203m
- Advised a large international PERE Fund on:
the acquisition of the Housebuilder HarperCrewe and the joint venture with the founders
tthe disposal of a portfolio of science parks to Harrison Street for £185m and the joint venture in respect of the potential housing estate
the forward funding of 3 connected BTR assets
the acquisition of a central London hotel
the acquisition of several central London office development sites
- Advised Lands Improvement and Telereal Trillium on a joint venture with a pension fund and a charity structured as a contractual derivative in respect of a mixed-use development site consisting of 5,500 homes and 1.5m sq ft of commercial space at Houghton Regis
- Advised Starwood on a joint venture with Lendlease and the acquisition of the £3.5 billion Silvertown mixed-use development site in East London
- Advised Brockton Capital on its investment in, and subsequent exit from, Virtus Data Centres for circa £500m
- Advised Precis Capital on its joint venture with Towerbrook and Carlyle to advance £1bn of real estate development loans
- Education
- University of Leicester – LLB Law First Class Honours 2005
- Nottingham Law School – LPC Distinction 2007
- Testimonials
The Legal 500 (2022) referred to Daniel as being "well-equipped to advise fund managers, asset managers, developers, family offices and financial institutions". With one client saying "Daniel Woolston – cannot help enough in walking us through our first fund so that we are completely confident in our choices, structure and we understand what we are doing and why."
"Woolston is a name to note for structured investments, funds and joint ventures" - Legal 500
