Harvinder Rai

Principal Associate

Birmingham

harvinder.rai@gowlingwlg.com

+44 (0)7766 992 670

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Bio

Harvinder Rai is a Principal Associate in Gowling WLG's real estate group.

He has wide-ranging real estate experience, advising and acting for registered providers of social housing (both not-for-profit and for-profit) and institutional investors within the social/affordable housing sector. Harvinder provides expert support to his registered provider clients in the delivery of new social and affordable homes through development and bulk turn-key acquisitions and to his investor clients in the deployment of responsible capital in the supported living arena.

Harvinder's clients include Legal & General Affordable Homes, Sanctuary Group, Fox Hound Capital and Triple Point Social Housing REIT.

Experience

Spent 13 months on secondment within the Legal & General Affordable Homes inhouse legal team as general legal counsel providing legal advice and support to internal stakeholders, scrutinising new development scheme investments, drafting, negotiating and advising on nomination agreements, non-disclosure agreements, service contracts and drafting contractual framework agreements and term sheets governing the development, sale and purchase of properties within group entities. Liaising with external panel lawyers and managing large scale DD on portfolio sale and purchase transactions.
Advising Legal & General Affordable Homes on a wide range of matters, including land-led, section 106 and open market acquisitions at turn-key and golden-brick stage. For example:

Harvinder led a multi-disciplinary team in the negotiation and implementation of a conditional framework agreement for the construction and delivery of circa 176 new build homes by a major house-builder and onward sale on a shared ownership basis. This has included advising on the ancillary shared ownership sale and marketing collateral and overseeing negotiation of a data protection agreement between the parties and a service level agreement with the appointed sales agent; and
on the setup of contract packs for the sale of 87 shared ownership apartments at the White City Living development in Hammersmith

Working with Sanctuary Group on a wide range of acquisitions and disposals, funding and site set-ups. Examples include acting on the bulk sale of new build apartments for private rent pursuant to an agreement for lease, including negotiation of the construction and development provisions in the agreement.
Advising Fox Hound Capital on the acquisition of large portfolios of residential properties and their onward sale to a fund for conversion and use as homelessness accommodation. The properties acquired have ranged from family homes through multi-bedroom shared accommodation to blocks of flats, with varied and complex title and planning issues for resolution.
Advising Triple Point Social Housing REIT on all aspects of its real estate and debt-raise legal work. In particular, Harvinder has developed a particular specialism in portfolio acquisition by way of a corporate wrapper.

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