Real Estate Portfolio Management

Providing real estate advice for the John Lewis Partnership on all aspects of its day to day operations, including John Lewis's 48 shops, Waitrose's 350 shops and all their other property requirements including state of the art distribution centres.

Acting for Waterstones on all aspects of its 290 + UK wide store portfolio including day-to-day transactional work and in contested 1954 Act proceedings.

Extensive West End and luxury retail property experience including for international investors and over ten years’ experience in acting for The Crown Estate’s £2.2 billion St James's portfolio.

Acting for M&S plc on the M&S Energy Society, a community energy scheme designed to generate renewable energy from solar panels installed on M&S stores across the UK.

Advising an international investment bank in relation to three large central London rent reviews and also in relation to significant dilapidations claim.

Advising a Middle-Eastern client on the acquisition, management and then disposal of a Guernsey based, sharia compliant, UK property fund specialising in student accommodation in leading university cities across the UK, for which we won The Real Estate Team of the Year Award at The Legal Business Awards 2016.

Acting for The Crown Estate across its rural assets, which together form one of the largest portfolios of agricultural, forestry and common land in the UK and which includes The Crown Estate’s Windsor Estate.

Acting on the portfolio management work for UK shopping centres.

Acting for the Falcon Property Trust on all asset management matters for the UK portfolio of 36 industrial estates, as well as the sale of the portfolio to Legal and General for over £100 million.

Advising a major American investment fund on asset management and then sale of Pencoed Industrial Park.

Advising Darwin Property Investment Management Ltd on all aspects of the Darwin Leisure Property Fund, a diversified portfolio of UK Holiday Parks.

Advising a property funds company in resisting threatened injunction application over shopping centre development.

The Crown Estate's sole legal adviser in the administration of freehold property that may be subject to escheat. We investigate and administer new escheat cases, as well as some of the many accumulated cases. Our aim is to protect The Crown Estate from risk and, where appropriate, return such property to private ownership.