Providing real estate, commercial and employment 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 the collaborative JV between Crosstree Real Estate Partners and AEG on its new 210,000 sq ft urban outlet centre at The O2 bringing 80 retail stores to the leisure destination for the first time including Ted Baker, Calvin Klein and Hackett.
Acting for Waterstones on all aspects of its 290 + UK wide store portfolio.
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 North Somerset Council on the acquisition of the Sovereign Shopping Centre in partnership with Legal & General.
Acting on numerous acquisitions of high profile UK shopping centres and retail parks including Westgate Shopping Centre (Oxford), Silverlink Shopping Park (Newcastle), Aintree Shopping Park (Liverpool), Ocean Retail Park (Portsmouth), Victoria Retail Park (Nottingham), South Aylesford Retail Park, Morfa Shopping Park (Swansea).
Advising The Crown Estate on the procurement of its St James’s Market project, a £400 million redevelopment of three sites in London to deliver nearly 28,000 sq m of mixed use accommodation – the largest single project that The Crown Estate has ever undertaken.
Acting on the administration of the Yorkgate Shopping Centre, York.
Advising an international investor on the acquisition through the BVI holding company, of the long leasehold interest in The Rolex Store at One Hyde Park at a yield of 1.75%.
Acting on the refinance of two shopping centres in Kings Lynn and Loughborough as part of a facility secured on a wider portfolio of properties worth £94 million and including restructuring the ownership, setting up a new joint venture structure and the replacing loan-on-loan financing with direct asset finance.
Advising Houston-based energy manufacturing and logistics company Philips 66 Limited on its acquisition of NJB Services Limited, a UK company with interests in five filling sites in the North of England.