Overview
Whatever the investment market conditions, new challenges and opportunities emerge in real time and investors need to respond with speed in order to capitalise on changes in the sector. Choosing a real estate investment law firm whose lawyers are agile and you can trust is essential to ensuring you have the legal advice and support you need every step of the way.
Our market-leading team advises all types of real estate investors to help them realise returns and achieve strategic aims. Our real estate investment lawyers offer full-service support throughout the life cycle of an asset including acquisitions, financing, developments, management and sales. Pairing technical legal excellence with commercial knowledge, we prioritise helping you to meet the challenges and demands of real estate asset ownership throughout the term of your investment.
We have a deep understanding of real estate investment across all asset classes including offices, logistics, retail, business parks, hotels, industrial estates, leisure, private rented sector, healthcare, life sciences, retirement, student accommodation and mixed use investments, enabling us to provide pragmatic advice on any type of investment. From high value, complex deals through to small capital investments and asset management, we provide advice at any scale or scope.
We know that part of delivering a stand-out client experience is having a deep understanding of your evolving business, such as ESG and responsible investment sensitivities while focussing on returns and efficiencies. Our wide range of clients include real estate investment trusts (REITs), property and development companies, financial institutions, pensions funds, fund managers, overseas entities and high net worth individuals.
Drawing on comprehensive experience, our team has an established reputation of working with leading global commercial investors. Whether a single asset or a portfolio transaction, our team will assist you to achieve the best results no matter the market conditions.
Investment legal services
- Acquisitions and disposals
- Asset management
- Corporate restructuring
- Fund formation
- Fund management
- Investment management
- Joint ventures
- Logistics
- Tax
We take a collaborative approach to legal negotiations and provide a holistic service, collaborating with teams across our full-service law firm including tax, corporate, litigation, planning and construction, keeping you fully informed and one step ahead of future risk.
With offices worldwide and a global network, our team is well-placed to advise on cross-border and international deals in key investment markets around the world and can assist in accessing international real estate markets.
Utilising our dedicated in-house Legal Digital Delivery team, we drive innovation through technology-based solutions to increase the speed of legal function and transactional project management providing a modern and sophisticated legal service focussed on giving our clients commercial advantage.
Joint Ventures
Our corporate structures lawyers work advise upon the acquisition and disposal of real estate through corporate vehicles and fund structures, whether established in the UK or in offshore locations such as the Channel Islands, Isle of Man, Luxembourg, BVI or The Netherlands. We have experience in advising on key issues such as warranties, limitations on liability, W&I insurance, tax warranties and indemnities, completion accounts and TUPE.
We also advise upon the design and formation of optimum holding structures and joint ventures for investment and trading assets, including use of unit trusts, partnerships, LLPs and limited companies with an overarching consideration of the AIFMD and the regulation of collective investment schemes. We find that most structuring decisions are tax driven, so our tax lawyers are involved from the outset to find the right structure for our clients.
Tax
Our dedicated Real Estate Tax team has a deep understanding of the sector and its economics. Combining this knowledge with careful legal analysis, we accurately advise at speed on taxes relevant to your projects. Our clients have access to tax lawyers who have day-to-day experience of tax issues pertinent to both direct and indirect real estate structuring, sales and acquisitions, mixed-use development and legal structuring of different tenures.
Our team deals with all transactional direct taxes (including NRCGT), transfer pricing, SDLT, VAT and capital allowance work, as well as more in-depth analysis around structuring and knotty technical tax issues, designing and implementing tax efficient structures.
