MIPIM 2019 Funds and Investors • The Duchy of • Aberdeen Standard Lancaster Investments • The Goldsmiths’ • APAM Company • Ardstone Capital • The Gunmakers’ • Aviva Investors Company • Benson Elliot • The Mercers • BMO Real Estate Company Partners • The Philimore Estate • British Airways • The Portman Estate Pension Fund MIPIM 2019 • CBRE Global Investors Prop Co’s and • Christ’s Hospital developers • EPIC • Apartments for • Investra Capital London • JCAM Commercial • Canmoor Real Estate Property • Consolidated Limited Developments • LaSalle Investment • Dwyer Property Management • Ediston • Mayfair Capital • Hunter UK Retail Unit Property Unit Trust Trust • Palmer Capital • Knight Dragon Group • Patrizia • LXB Retail Properties • Ronald McDonald Plc CLIENT LIST CLIENT House Charities • Opus Land • Savills Investment • Precis Holdings Managers • Redevco • The Corporation of • Shaftesbury Plc Trinity House • The Alrov Group • The Crown Estate • Wrenbridge 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 Our team has an outstanding reputation in acting for institutional investors and pension funds, private and public property companies, funders, developers, occupiers and residential, rural and urban estates, charities, high net worth individuals and landowners involved in all types of commercial real estate matters. In addition to our main commercial real estate group, we provide a complete property service to our clients with specialised teams dealing with planning, construction matters (both non- contentious and contentious), real estate finance, real estate litigation, corporate real estate/structuring/sales/ acquisitions and tax advice. Areas of expertise: • investment and funding EXPERTISE EXPERTISE • development • occupiers • retail • hotels REAL ESTATE ESTATE REAL • planning • construction • real estate finance • real estate taxation • real estate litigation • residential investment and development • creation, sale and purchase of corporate real estate structures REAL ESTATE RANKED IN BOTH THE IN CHAMBERS LEGAL 500 AND CHAMBERS 2019 for all our real estate teams Ranked Band 1 including property litigation, planning, residential and construction ‘BEST LAW FIRMS’ RANKED - HOT 100 Recognised in the LAWYERS 2018 inaugural Times ‘Best Head of Real Estate Law Firms’ index for Litigation Natasha Rees landlord and tenant work 14 PARTNERS Awards and Accolades Awards PROPERTY LAW ‘LEADING FIRM OF THE INDIVIDUALS’ YEAR 2017 14 of our partners are CityWealth Magic ranked as ‘leading Circle Awards individuals’ Chambers 2019 HALL 1 OF FAME BAND 1 IN 2 REAL ESTATE CHAMBERS 2019 LITIGATION PARTNERS Real Estate Litigation included in the “Hall of partner Jonathan Ross Fame” Legal 500 ranked as band 1 in Chambers 2019 Matthew Ronan Swainston Ledwidge PARTNER PARTNER, AND HEAD OF COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE T: +44 207 863 8448 T: +44 207 863 8463 M: +44 7825 418 354 M: +44 7901 940 579 E: ronan.ledwidge@ E: matthew.swainston@ forsters.co.uk forsters.co.uk Helen Andrew Streeton Crabbie PARTNER, PARTNER, COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE T: +44 207 399 4837 T: +44 207 863 8456 M: +44 7964 899572 M: +44 7940 564 781 E: helen.streeton@forsters. E: andrew.crabbie@ co.uk forsters.co.uk Ben Katherine Barrison Ekers PARTNER, PARTNER, PROPERTY COMMERCIAL LITIGATION REAL ESTATE T: +44 207 863 8319 T: +44 207 863 8563 M: +44 7976 974 634 M: +44 7887 419 638 E: ben.barrison@forsters. E: katherine.ekers@ MIPIM TEAM co.uk forsters.co.uk Victoria Magnus Towers Hassett PARTNER, PARTNER, COMMERCIAL COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE REAL ESTATE T: +44 207 863 8462 T: +44 207 863 8459 M: +44 7775 408 752 M: +44 7717 579 777 E: victoria.towers@ E: magnus.hassett@ forsters.co.uk forsters.co.uk Forsters can advise on any real estate matter regardless of size, complexity or sector with the highest level of expertise. WHY WHY FORSTERS? “Absolutely fantastic.” Chambers UK, 2017 REGENERATION HOTELS KNIGHT DRAGON JOINT TREASURE Greenwich Marriott Hotel, Peninsula Grosvenor Square Forsters continues Forsters has provided a to act for and advise multidisciplinary team to advise Knight Dragon Hong Kong based Joint Treasure in relation to its International Limited on the comprehensive acquisition of the luxury 5 star redevelopment and hotel, London Marriott Hotel regeneration of Grosvenor Square. Greenwich Peninsula. The London Marriott Hotel The development Grosvenor Square was formerly on the 150 acre site a stately townhouse, it is now is well underway a 237 room hotel that is also with eight residential home to two Gordon Ramsey towers having restaurants, Maze and the Maze reached practical Grill. The hotel has a 24-hour completion and fitness centre and event space five more under measuring nearly 10,000 sq ft construction. The which consists of ballrooms and £8.4bn scheme conference rooms. will provide 15,750 The acquisition of the London residential units Marriott Hotel Grosvenor Square alongside 23,000 has further reinforced Forsters’ sq m of retail and position as one of the leading restaurants, nearly real estate practices in London. 60,000 sq m of The ability to provide our offices, 6,000 sq m client with a full service offering of hotel space, with the added element of 38,000 sq m hotel sector expertise covering of education everything from corporate, facilities and an employment, real estate finance, iconic transport construction and planning TRACK RECORD TRACK interchange in place advice has allowed us to execute of the existing North this complex and time pressured Greenwich tube deal smoothly and in line with station. our client’s requirements. 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