Business

Real estate

Real estate

Our clients include entrepreneurs, investors, developers, landowners, borrowers, banks, institutions and charities. We act for private investors, developers and entrepreneurs including names from The Sunday Times ‘Rich List' in the UK and family trusts.

We advise non-profit institutions including Great Ormond St Children's Charity and Yale University as well as high-profile brands such as fashion designers MaxMara and Moschino.

With the influx of international private wealth into the UK commercial property market in recent years, we have seen the private investor competing with the major institutional funds for investment opportunities. We cater for the particular needs of those private investors including tax efficient structuring and the level of private client services they demand.

Recent work

  • Acting for McCabe Builders (UK) Limited in relation to significant residential developments in north London and on Clapham Common.
  • Acting for Soho House in the structuring of its first US expansion, in Manhattan, including construction and financing.
  • Acting for private bank C Hoare & Co in relation to its own development proposals.
  • Acquiring a mixed portfolio of office, industrial and warehouse units worth over £20m ($40m) for The Paul Hamlyn Foundation, and a mixed commercial portfolio of a similar size for an anonymous Rich List investor.
  • Acting for The Grocers Company, a UK non-profit institution, in the purchase of a central London property to add to its investment portfolio.
  • The formation of a master LLC (limited liability company) vehicle to buy, build, own and occupy a state-of-the-art medical office building in the US and the negotiation of construction and permanent financing, and all the leases.

 

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