Sector experience
Real estate
We advise property owners, investors, developers and occupiers on the agreements, structures and finance behind property transactions.
Overview
Property transactions bring together commercial agreements, corporate and trust structures and finance. We advise on leases, sale agreements, developments and property-owning structures, coordinating with conveyancers on transfer and registration.
Our real estate work draws on our property, corporate, finance and trusts work.
Clients in this sector include property owners, investors, developers, landlords and tenants..
How we help
Our work in this sector
Leasing
We draft and negotiate commercial leases for landlords and tenants across office, retail and industrial property. We give particular care to escalation, operating cost, renewal and early termination provisions, which are often the source of later disagreement.
Acquisitions and disposals
We advise on the sale and purchase of property and property-owning companies, and on the sale of letting enterprises as going concerns. We coordinate with the conveyancers attending to transfer and registration so that the transaction proceeds as one.
Development
We advise developers, landowners and investors on development agreements and property joint ventures. We focus on the allocation of development risk, funding obligations and the arrangements for completed space.
Holding structures
We advise on holding property through companies and trusts, with the client's tax advisers. We consider how property should be held before the transaction is signed, not afterwards.
Property finance
We advise on finance and security arrangements for acquisitions and developments. Drawing on our banking and finance work, we align the finance and security with the transaction documents.
Technically sound. Commercially minded.
Advice that begins with technical precision and extends to the commercial and strategic judgement that founders, owners and executives rely on.