Reena Patel

• Reena has advised BAE Systems Pension Funds (through LaSalle and Columbia Threadneedle) for 25 years in connection with its investment portfolio, acting on acquisitions, forward funding, lettings and disposals of its portfolio of retail parks, shopping centres, leisure, student accommodation, co-living, supported living, retirement villages, offices, education, hotels, warehousing and industrial assets.
• Reena leads our client relationship for Hyde Housing Association, advising Hyde on complex transactions including its partnerships with institutional investors to deliver more housing and affordable housing into the sector and its acquisition of Pinnacle Spaces.
• Reena leads our client relationship for Canada Life Limited, advising on all aspects of their real estate and pensions needs.
• Following our successful appointment to the Land Securities legal panel, Reena leads the Gowling team advising LandsecU+I on its regeneration schemes in London and the Southeast.
• Reena leads the teams advising on all aspects of leasing, asset management, development/repurposing, funding and disposals on a number of shopping centres: The Victoria Centre, Nottingham, Milton Keynes, Telford Shopping Centre, Trinity Walk, Leeds and Queensgate in Peterborough. Reena worked with Empiric to build a c£1 billion student property portfolio since Gowling WLG advised on setting up the client's REIT in 2014. This work included advising on forward funding and investment acquisitions, portfolio financing and disposals and the recent public take-over by Unite plc.
• Reena is part of the firm's Living sector group, advising on senior living, retirement villages, student accommodation and co-living sub-sectors as well as mixed-use residential and commercial.
• Reena has worked with clients to structure and transact long income, commercial ground rent and income strip acquisitions, fundings and disposals in a multitude of asset classes.

Recognition

"Through leading the wider real estate team, who have the experience and breadth of expertise in all areas of law, she is able to advise us on the optimum structure and to negotiate documentation for our transactions, in any asset class, in such a way that protects our clients' best interests. She is reliable, trustworthy, pragmatic and we really enjoy working with her."
– LaSalle

"Reena and her team achieve a rare thing, a trusted advisor and partnership relationship, embedding talented experts within our project teams with a shared passion. This is achieved through their mindset, continually looking for opportunities to help us by listening, understanding our aims and sharing our sense of purpose. The result is tangible commercial outcomes and much-needed sector innovation."
– Tom Grundy, General Counsel of the Hyde Group