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MIPIM 2019 CLIENT LIST • The Crown Estate • • • • Patrizia • Palmer Capital • • • • Investra Capital • EPIC • Christ’s Hospital • CBREGlobal Investors • • • Benson Elliot • AvivaInvestors • ArdstoneCapital • APAM • Funds and Investors Trinity House The Corporation of Limited Real Estate Property Commercial JCAM Investments Standard Aberdeen Managers Savills Investment House Charities Ronald McDonald PropertyUnit Trust Mayfair Capital Management LaSalle Investment PensionFund Airways British Partners BMO Real Estate • Wrenbridge • TheAlrovGroup • Shaftesbury Plc • Redevco • Precis Holdings • Opus Land • • KnightDragon Group • • Ediston • Dwyer Property • • • • The Portman Estate • The Philimore Estate • • • • developers Prop Co’s and London for Apartments Company Mercers The Company Gunmakers’ The Company Goldsmiths’ The Lancaster The Duchy of Plc LXB Retail Properties Trust Hunter UK Retail Unit Developments Consolidated Canmoor
MIPIM 2019 Our team We have one of the largest legal real estate teams in London and as well as a large team, you can be reassured of the quality of the individuals involved. A number of our team are noted as leading individuals in independent directories such as Legal 500 UK and Chambers UK. 27 PARTNERS
SOLICITORS Matthew Swainston Andrew Crabbie Head of Commercial Andrew Parker Real Estate Ben Barrison 76 Elizabeth Small Ben Brayford Head of Real Estate Chris Myers Ta x Craig Thompson Lucy Barber Eugene McMahon Head of Residential Glenn Dunn Natasha Rees Guy Jordan Head of Property Helen Marsh 36 Litigation Helen Streeton Trainees Paul Roberts Howard Gill Paralegals Business Support Lawyers Managing Partner Jonathan Ross Administration Managers Sarah Cook Katherine Ekers Legal Executives Head of Construction Magnus Hassett Smita Edwards Ronan Ledwidge Senior Partner Sarah Pass Victoria Du Croz Victoria Towers Head of Planning Victoria Edwards 31 Head of Real Estate Personal Assistants Finance Administrators REAL ESTATE EXPERTISE of commercial real estate matters. and landowners involved inalltypes charities, highnetworth individuals residential, rural andurban estates, funders, developers, occupiers and and publicproperty companies, investors andpensionfunds, private reputation inactingfor institutional Our team hasanoutstanding • • • • • • • • • • • • Areas of expertise: acquisitions andtax advice. corporate real estate/structuring/sales/ estate finance, real estate litigation, contentious andcontentious), real construction matters (bothnon- specialised teams dealing withplanning, property service to ourclients with estate group, we provide acomplete In additionto ourmaincommercial real corporate real estate structures creation, sale and purchase of development residential investment and real estate litigation real estate taxation real estate finance construction planning hotels retail occupiers development investment andfunding Awards and Accolades Chambers 2019 ranked asband 1in JonathanRoss partner Real EstateLitigation CHAMBERS 2019 BAND 1IN Circle Awards CityWealth Magic YEAR 2017 FIRM OFTHE PROPERTY LAW landlord andtenantwork Law Firms’indexfor inaugural Times‘Best Recognised inthe ‘BEST LAWFIRMS’ Ranked Band1 2019 IN CHAMBERS REAL ESTATE 1
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Chambers UK, 2017 “Absolutely fantastic.” WHY FORSTERS? expertise. with thehighest level of complexity orsector regardless of size, any real estate matter Forsters can advise on TRACK RECORD REGENERATION station. Greenwich tube of theexisting North interchange inplace iconic transport facilities andan of education 38,000 sq m of hotel space, offices, 6,000 sq m 60,000 sq mof restaurants, nearly sq mof retail and alongside 23,000 residential units will provide 15,750 £8.4bn scheme construction. The five more under completion and reached practical towers having with eightresidential is well underway the 150acre site on Greenwich Peninsula. regeneration of redevelopment and comprehensive in relation to its Knight Dragon to actfor andadvise Forsters continues Peninsula Greenwich KNIGHT DRAGON The development our client’s requirements. deal smoothlyandinlinewith this complex andtimepressured advice hasallowed usto execute construction and planning employment, real estate finance, everything from corporate, hotel sector expertise covering with theaddedelementof client withafullservice offering real estate practices in London. position asoneof theleading has furtherreinforced Forsters’ Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square conference rooms. which consists of ballrooms and measuring nearly 10,000 sq ft fitness centre and event space Grill. The hotel hasa24-hour restaurants, Maze andtheMaze home to two Gordon Ramsey a 237 room hotel thatisalso a stately townhouse, itisnow Grosvenor Square was formerly Grosvenor Square. hotel, London MarriottHotel acquisition of 5star theluxury International Limited onthe Kongbased JointTreasureHong multidisciplinary team to advise Forsters hasprovided a Grosvenor Square Marriott Hotel, JOINT TREASURE HOTELS The ability to provide our The acquisition of theLondon The London MarriottHotel OFFICES ALLOY MTD ABERDEEN STANDARD One Crown INVESTMENTS Place Regis House Forsters are advising the Forsters acted on the sale of City owner/developer on the of London office building, Regis mixed use development House, EC4 to a private Middle at One Crown Place, EC2. Eastern investor for a purchase Designed by leading price of £105 million. architects KPF, the scheme The eleven storey building, which will include two towers of 29 comprises 105,000 square foot, has and 33 storeys respectively, a net passing rent of approximately which will house 120,000 sq £4.95 million with tenants including ft of office space with 246 an international law firm and residential apartments on serviced office provider. the upper floors, together Regis House stands on the with hotel and leisure/ site previously occupied by King restaurant space in the William Street underground station, adjacent restored Georgian which was closed in the early 20th terraces. century when the underground routes were reconfigured. RETAIL LXB RETAIL PROPERTIES PLC Stafford retail scheme Forsters advised Jersey resident closed-ended real estate investment company LXB Retail BRITISH AIRWAYS PENSION FUND Properties Plc (LXB) on the disposal of 61-67 Oxford Street its remaining retail Forsters have advised longstanding investments in client, British Airways Pension Fund on Stafford. the sale of the 70,000 sq ft six storey LXB’s interest in mixed use scheme on Oxford Street. the multi-let Riverside Comprising 35,000 sq ft of prime scheme was sold to retail space occupied by Spanish trustees of the Gelos retailer, Zara, two floors of Grade Property Unit Trust, A office space and six high quality managed by Legal & residential apartments, the site General. Tenants at maximises a prominent corner location Riverside include M&S, at the intersection of Oxford Street and Primark, New Look, Soho Street. River Island, Outfit, The scheme was developed by Zizzi, JD Sports, Greggs, British Airways Pension Fund in a joint Vision Express, H&M venture with Dukelease. Designed by and Costa. Stirling Prize winning architects AHMM, The adjoining construction was completed in 2015. Waterfront leisure The scheme comprises a new 21st scheme was century landmark building, with its simultaneously sold to distinctive curved line design. Legal & General Leisure This instruction showcases the Fund on a forward multi-disciplinary capabilities of the purchase basis, with Forsters team, which has advised on a the benefit of leases broad range of issues including rights including a newly- of light, obtaining vacant possession constructed Odeon and all aspects of the site acquisition, cinema. development, letting and disposal. INDUSTRIAL PLP (Peel Logistics Property) and Patrizia Advised Rockspring Transeuropean (now Patrizia) and its development partner Peel Logistics (PLP) on the ‘full-cycle’ acquisition, letting, development and sale of a 256,000 sq ft multi- unit logistics development in Reading. The property was acquired from Reading Borough Council subject to contractual complexities addressing environmental issues, a mass rapid transport scheme buy-back right and potential future overage. The pre-lets tenants for the property included Argos. Following planning advice and s106 agreement negotiation, we advised on procurement for construction of the development. The let property was then sold to Thameside Metropolitan Borough Council (Greater Manchester Pension Fund) for £59.5 million.
WRENBRIDGE Basildon logistics Forsters has advised Wrenbridge, on behalf of the Palmer Capital Development Fund IV, in relation to a joint venture arrangement with the owner of a site in Basildon for the redevelopment of that site into a new 223,000 sq ft warehouse scheme. ALTERNATIVE SECTORS
CARE HOMES Octopus Healthcare Advising on the acquisition of care homes at Churchfield Lane, Benson, Mountsorrel and Water Lane, York by way of forward funding, sale and leaseback and forward purchase.
PRS/BTR LASALLE INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT Canning Town Forsters has acted on behalf of LaSalle Investment Management on one of the first direct investments for its UK PRS Residential Fund. The Fund STUDENT has acquired 87 EASTSIDE LOCKS, BIRMINGHAM residential units from LaSalle Investment English Cities Fund in Phase Three of their Management Rathbone Market We advised LaSalle Investment redevelopment in Management in relation to the Canning Town, East forward funding of a 659 bed student London for £30 accommodation scheme with a gross million. The purchase development value in excess of £43 was structured as a million. The entire scheme has the benefit forward commitment of a long term nominations agreement in and was delivered in favour of Birmingham City University. two phases.