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Corporate Real Estate

Our corporate, tax and property lawyers work together to deliver a seamless service for clients in the UK Commercial Property Market.

Key Contacts

Other key Corporate Real Estate contacts

We advise on initial structuring, appropriateness of vehicle and tax issues, through to implementation and corporate documentation.  Many of our transactions have an international element. 

We act regularly for:

  • Investors – institutional, corporate and individual
  • Property funds
  • Property sector PLCs
  • Consortia and joint venture partners
  • Property portfolio owners
  • Funders and sponsors
  • Developers

 

We advise on all types of corporate real estate transactions including:

  • Mergers, acquisitions and takeovers of property businesses
  • Tax-efficient structures
  • Establishing property funds, quoted and unquoted, onshore and offshore
  • IPOs and fundraisings for property companies on the LSE Main Market and on AIM
  • Establishment, acquisition or disposal of special purpose vehicles (SPVs), limited partnerships and LLPs
  • Joint venture and consortia arrangements, including transfer of assets, profit extraction, financing and exit strategies
  • Commonhold and other property-related corporate vehicles
  • Corporate reorganisations
  • REITS

Recent transactions include advising:

  • Redefine International plc - on its merger with Wichford P.L.C., to create an enlarged, income-focused property investment company on the LSE Main Market  (£300+ million market capitalisation, and over £1 billion of property investment assets)
  • Prime plc - on its proposed Main Market IPO (up to £200m fundraise)
  • I.M. Properties PLC - on the acquisition of all of the issued units in a Jersey Property Unit Trust, from a subsidiary of Allied London Properties Limited (the landmark building for the new Spinningfields retail scheme in Manchester)
  • Medicx Fund - a specialist healthcare property investment company – on its IPO on the LSE main market and subsequent £55.9million placing and offer for subscription
  • Wal-Mart/Asda - on the £multi-million disposal of the Gazeley group, its property development subsidiary, to a subsidiary of Economic World Zones FZE

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