Real Estate Investment Lawyers

A BIG APPETITE FOR BIG REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS?

You know as well as we do that premium real estate investments can have twists and turns. Choose lawyers with a history of helping clients to eat big deals for breakfast: managing risk and getting your deals done.

We've advised across all real estate sub-sectors on complex deals for clients including Ares, Aviva, British Land, Federated Hermes, Kamco Invest, Patrizia and Telereal Trillium. Private equity real estate funds, asset managers, developers, family offices, sovereign wealth and large pension funds, REITs and financial institutions rely on us to apply imagination and impact to their indirect real estate projects.

Some of the challenges we've recently helped clients address include:

  • Entering into high value and complex joint venture agreements (both 50/50 and also 90/10);
  • Investing in, buying or disposing of real estate (including via special purpose vehicles);
  • Structuring real estate investments (including using specialist structures such as Shariah-compliant structures);
  • Investing and acquiring operational real estate rich businesses and PropTech (including for private equity investors);
  • Preparing equity incentive arrangements and management contracts in relation to real estate investments, real estate debt and operational real estate; and
  • Investing in Real Estate debt structures via preferred equity, debt stacks and A/B inter-creditors.

We understand in depth the economic metrics and drivers which clients use when underwriting investments and use this to ensure advice is commercial, meaningful and put in context. 

Helping you eat iconic real estate investments for breakfast.

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A few examples of client's we've supported

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Battersea Power Station

Acting for Battersea Power Station Development Company on its £1.583bn sale of the commercial elements within the Battersea Power Station development to a Malaysian joint venture. 


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Telereal Trillium

Acting for Telereal Trillium on its entry into a joint venture with Blackstone Property Partners to acquire Network Rail's £1.46bn commercial estate portfolio.


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Singapore Press Holdings

Acting for Singapore Press Holdings on its £448m acquisition of the Student Castle student accommodation portfolio.


An international PERE fund

Acting for an international PERE fund on the acquisition of a UK housebuilder, the combination with another ESG friendly housebuilder and the joint venture with the founders – with the aim of building a £2bn single family housing portfolio.


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Federated Hermes

Acting for Federated Hermes on its entry into a new joint venture with CPPIB relating to Silverstone Park. 


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ALMCOR 

Acting for ALMCOR on its entry into a EUR1.5bn Pan-European first mile logistics joint venture with Cerberus Capital Management.


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Realty Income

Acting for Realty Income on the acquisition of 11 shopping centres from a listed REIT for consideration of approx. £200m.


An international PERE fund

Acting for an international PERE fund on the acquisition and forward funding of three interconnected BTR developments for £300m.


Awards

Real Estate Team of the Year (shortlisted), The Lawyer Awards 2024
Best Law Firm - Fund Structuring 2024
 Pan-European Private Equity Legal Advisor of the Year, Real Deals Private Equity Awards 2023
Best Law Firm – Fund Structuring, Private Equity Wire European Awards 2023
City Law Firm of the Year, The Lawyer Awards 2022