other sectors: property & estates
Our clients expect us to be able to advise on all estates issues
and we do not disappoint. Whether buying or selling land, landlord
and tenant work, large scale development, property finance, establishing
joint ventures for property development, planning and compulsory
purchase, or environmental issues, we have the teams in place to
advise. We provide a partner-led service and are used to working
with colleagues elsewhere in the firm, typically on major projects
to design, build, operate and finance significant new developments
in pfi/ppp or in buying and selling companies where property is
a significant asset. Our recent work includes:
- acting for an institutional pension fund on the acquisition
of a major mixed use premises in Covent Garden for £26m
- advising a university college in a joint venture with a regional
development agency to acquire a former brownfield NHS site and
redevelop it as a brand new mixed use campus, together with an
associated venture with two local authorities to develop a joint
library facility in the establishment of a learning quarter with
a capital value in excess of £70m
- acting for a clearing bank providing development finance to
construct a new shopping centre valued in excess of £100m
- acting for a number of institutional investors in the sales
and acquisitions of shopping centres with values in the region
of £70m
- acting for a local authority on the regeneration of a 70 hectare
brownfield site as a brand new urban village in a joint venture
with the regional development agency, including conducting a compulsory
purchase hearing
Our clients include IM Properties, Wolverhampton City Council,
Cala Homes, West Midlands Metropolitan Pension Fund. We also have lawyers who provide a service to our private clients
which includes residential
conveyancing and agricultural work. We have over 50 property and estates lawyers. Key contacts include:
Martin Edwards, property
disputes, John Rice, property
finance; institutional investment and development; Clive
Read, public law property and planning; Simon
Coghlan, property support; James
Spreckley, direct property investment and development; Angela
Healy, environmental; Quentin
Butler, Landed estates and agriculture. Publications: |
