As one of the largest real estate investment teams in London, we support clients throughout the full investment lifecycle, from acquisition and ownership to asset management and disposal. We are known for our commercial focus and pragmatic, proactive advice that aligns with wider business objectives, helping clients secure and enhance both capital value and income returns.
We act for longstanding investors and ambitious new entrants on high-value, complex transactions, often under tight timelines or involving high profile assets. We offer clear, structured guidance that builds confidence from day one. Our team helps clients navigate legal risks, understand regulatory frameworks and maximise deal security, laying the groundwork for successful long-term investment. We act as a commercial partner throughout, enabling your plans and unlocking opportunities with clarity and confidence.
Our client base spans listed companies, investment funds, trust structures, family offices and private individuals, both UK-based and offshore. Clients benefit from our fully integrated real estate platform: we operate from a single central London office alongside specialist colleagues in planning, construction, tax, banking and dispute resolution. This enables us to move quickly, apply sector-specific expertise and stay focused on delivering results.
We have an established track record and active involvement across all real estate sectors:
Office: advising investors on the acquisition, management and disposal of prominent, high-value office buildings across the UK.
Healthcare and later living: advising investor-operators on expanding and evolving operational portfolios in a sector experiencing sustained growth and investment activity.
Life sciences: supporting science and innovation-led regeneration, including repurposing existing space for state-of-the-art lab use. We are acting on high-profile joint ventures and multi-million pound mixed-use schemes centred around life sciences.
Data centres, industrial and logistics: working closely with our construction team to advise on site development, energy strategy and environmental performance in this highly active and infrastructure-driven sector.
Charities and third sector: supporting longstanding clients with complex, often historical property portfolios, delivering nuanced advice that satisfies Charities Act requirements and sector-specific sensitivities.
Media and entertainment: acting on transactions in a fast-growing market, including international investment into UK studio space and production facilities, driven by high-profile demand for creative infrastructure.
Corporate acquisitions: partnering with our corporate team to deliver seamless advice on the real estate elements of large-scale transactions, including recent multi-billion-pound M&A deals.
Hotels & Hospitality: our clients include established national portfolio owner operators, entrepreneurial investors and luxury developers and architects.
Recent Experience
- Acting as exclusive UK real estate advisor to the Global Holdings Group, a global real estate group which specialises, directly and with strategic partners, in large scale iconic office buildings, hotels and luxury residential, as well as investment and development assets.
- Advising the owner of a heritage film and television studio totalling over 500,000 sqft of stage, office, workshop and backlot space on its sale to a global film and television production studio.
- Advising IJM Corporation Berhad on the acquisition of a £72.5 million long leasehold interest of 25 Finsbury Circus, it’s subsequent £150 million sustainability-led refurbishment and reconfiguration with a projected gross development value of c.£420 million, together with the exchange of a pre-letting agreement of over 135,000 sqft with a global law firm.
- Advising Fuller, Smith and Turner on all aspects of its portfolio of 370+ hotel and pubs, recently including its acquisition of Lovely Pubs.
- Advising a UK-based investment fund on the acquisition of a 126,000+ sqft office and studio space in Chiswick Park that serves as the HQ for a broadcasting channel’s UK operations and 600 staff.
- Advising London Metric Property Plc. on a range of high profile logistics acquisition and developments in key locations across the UK including the purchase and forward funding of Alconbury Weald.
- Advising South African investor Zeno on the negotiation of a long-term reversionary lease deal with existing tenant Standard Chartered Bank at 1 Basinghall Avenue and ongoing redevelopment. With a vital role as the bank’s global HQ, negotiations enabled Standard Chartered to remain in occupation during the building’s refurbishment to deliver a market leading office space with BREEAM Excellent certification.
- Advised GSE Property Group on the sale of their Ashford International Truckstop (AIT) development to BP and leaseback to Ashford International Truck Stop Limited, the GSE entity which operates the facility.
- Advising Jaynic Properties on Suffolk Park, a 114 acre site in Bury St Edmunds with occupiers including Greene King who have secured planning for a new £40 million state of the art brewery at the park. Key aspects of our advice have included the sale to Greene King, and associated planning issues.
- Advising an international investor on a £30m complex acquisition and occupational lease re-gear of a portfolio of commercial properties in Borehamwood located within a major regeneration area.
- Advising Satila Property Development AB, part of the Satila Studios Group on the sale of the special purpose vehicle that owns the London landmark property, The Old Session House.
- Advising a private property investment fund on the acquisition of a 43,000 sqft concert hall and 16,000 sqft office space within the landmark Wales Millenium Centre scheme at Cardiff Bay.
- Advising a private property investment fund on the acquisition of a purpose-built 140,000 sqft office HQ in Southampton.
- Advising a private property investment fund on the acquisition of a BCO award winning 90,000 sqft office building in Cirencester and headquarters of one of the UK’s largest wealth management companies.
