Corporate Real Estate

Our combined expertise in real estate, corporate, finance, tax and investment funds enables us to create a distinctive team for our clients.

Given that many corporate real estate matters involve overseas locations, we have developed close working relationships with many of the leading independent law firms throughout the major jurisdictions. This ensures access at all times to firms with the requisite legal and market experience.

Our team advises on a wide range of corporate real estate matters including:

Restructuring: Alongside the firm's restructuring and insolvency group, we advise in connection with real estate rich reorganisations and restructurings for private equity investors, management teams and corporates. Our work covers all real estate aspects including the impact of proposals on existing legal arrangements such as opco/propco and other lease structures and offshore ownership.
Occupier strategy: We advise corporate owners and occupiers in realising maximum use and value from their real estate holdings and in agreeing contract and lease terms. This includes corporate realisation programmes, relocation projects, the acquisition of new premises, management of existing premises, the disposal of excess space and advice on construction, planning and development issues.
Acquisitions and disposals: We advise on mergers and acquisitions and private equity investments, both domestic and cross-border, where real estate is either the imperative or a material or relevant aspect. This includes advice on acquisitions and disposals including financing and re-organisation issues as well as environmental, regulation and health and safety.

Recent work

OpCapita

Advising OpCapita on its purchase of the business and assets of Comet Group and GAME, in both cases advising on the taking over of retail leases.

Macmillan

Advising Macmillan on its agreement to lease two office buildings in the Regent Quarter Development in London’s King’s Cross.

Alchemy

Advising Alchemy in connection with the £177m buyout by the investee company the Tattershall Castle Group of a portfolio of 178 pubs from the Spirit Group. This was followed by the implementation of a restructuring in conjunction with our tax and corporate teams, involving a substantial reorganisation of the Group's property interests.

ICAP

Advising ICAP in relation to its occupational arrangements as sub-tenant at 1/2 Broadgate, London EC2 in light of the administration of its immediate landlord Lehman Brothers Limited.

The Economist

Advising weekly news, business and politics journal The Economist on its move from 25 St James’s Street, SW1 to establish new editorial headquarters at the iconic Adelphi building, WC2.

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