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Providing comprehensive Real Estate Investment and Capital Market legal services, we offer tailored advice to protect our clients’ investments from risk, helping to maximise their value.

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We provide bespoke legal advice to a diverse range of clients, including UK and international corporates, funds, institutional investors, trusts, sovereign wealth entities, family offices and ultra-high net worth individuals.

We assist them in acquiring, managing and securing the best returns on their investments across all major asset classes.

With over 140 lawyers in our award-winning Built Environment team, working across offices in Bristol, Edinburgh and London, we are equipped to support our clients’ real estate investments, regardless of their scale or location. We bring together expertise from real estate, corporate, banking and finance, real estate disputes, construction and planning, to safeguard investments from risk.

Our aim is to work in partnership with our clients and deliver advice that is tailored to their strategy and investment goals. The success of this approach is evident in the deep, long-term relationships we have cultivated with our investor clients.

Additionally, we understand the importance of sustainability and the need to decarbonise real estate assets to meet tenant demand and prevent assets from becoming obsolete. Leveraging our market-leading expertise in both the built environment and energy sectors, we are uniquely positioned to provide effective legal solutions that help our clients achieve these sustainability goals.

Services

Expertise in major asset classes

Comprehensive expertise across office, retail, industrial, mixed-use properties, hotels, leisure, student accommodation, and build-to-rent.

Real Estate acquisitions and disposals

Advising clients investing in, buying or disposing of real estate (including via special purpose vehicles).

Asset and portfolio management

Managing and optimising returns from real estate assets and portfolios across the UK.

Real estate fund acquisition and disposal

Supporting the acquisition and disposal of real estate funds.

Fund structures and structuring transactions

Advising on fund creation and structuring real estate investments.

On and offshore tax planning

Providing tailored tax planning strategies, both onshore and offshore, to maximise investment efficiency.

Environmental and Net Zero issues

Addressing environmental challenges, including sustainability and Net Zero goals, to future-proof your investments.

Examples of our work

Tritax Big Box REIT

Advising the largest listed investor in high-quality logistics warehouse assets in the UK on the real estate aspects of its £5 billion portfolio.

LGPS Central UK Direct Property Fund

Advising on the acquisition of c.£500 million of directly held property investments across a range of sectors.

London & Regional

On the acquisition and disposal of numerous investment properties, including the £253 million sale and leaseback of 43 Holiday Inn Express hotels and a £75 million office asset.

Darwin Alternatives

Advised on the acquisition and financing of a £150 million crematoria and memorial parks portfolio and luxury holiday lodges in Oxfordshire.

Aerium Group

Providing investment and asset management support on a £500+ million UK-wide real estate portfolio.

Zetland Capital

Advising on the acquisition and subsequent refinance of the 338-bedroom Macdonald Manchester Hotel, the 156-bedroom Macdonald Holyrood Hotel in Edinburgh, and a number of pub portfolios in and around London.