Investment

Recent financial conditions have opened up opportunities for investors in prime properties with increasingly attractive yields. Commercial and timely legal advice is increasingly important to ensure that opportunities are capitalised on and developed going forward.

Our service

We offer comprehensive commercial advice on all aspects of real estate investment, including the acquisition, disposal and letting of all types of investment property including office buildings, industrial estates, shopping centres and warehouses through to portfolio sales and purchases.

We can also work with you on enhancing the value of a portfolio with innovative schemes, collective property investments and estate management.

We cover all aspects of commercial landlord and tenant, property management, covenants, easements and rights of light and property insolvency issues as well as tax effective structures and sales and leasebacks.

We also acquire freehold and leasehold premises for occupation by clients and are experienced in providing prompt and practical advice.

Our experience

We have handled some of the market’s largest and most high-profile investment deals acting for major investors, pension funds, property companies, charities and occupiers. We have acted on portfolios of all sizes from offices to shopping centres and industrial warehouses and have established a lead position in advising European investors on property and property strategies.

We work closely with our tax and financial practices, advising on advantageous tax structures for the acquisition of property and indirect investments.

Work we have done recently with investment funds, pension funds, groups of investors and charities include:

• Providing ongoing advice to a major pension fund on a portfolio of some 70 investment properties, advising them on the acquisitions disposals lease restructuring and management of various substantial investment properties, including shopping centres, offices, industrial estates and retail warehouses.
• Advising on the purchase of portfolios comprising office and call centre properties and development sites currently let to various telecoms companies.
• Providing ongoing advice to a major investment bank on their management work across their industrial, retail, office and venture funds, and acting on recent substantial sales.
• Advising on the sale on long leases of a number of major investment properties in enterprise zones for private investors and associated restructuring of occupational leases.
• Advising on an acquisition of a half share in a trophy residential and retail and leisure development on the south coast with an end development value £400m.
• Advising on the acquisition of four hotels with a combined purchase value of circa £75m.
• Advising on the purchase of a number of substantial shopping centres.