Commercial Real Estate

Our key experience includes advising:

Qatar National Bank on the £1.15 billion financing of The Shard of Glass and London Bridge Place. The Shard will be the tallest building in the UK.

Global Infrastructure Partners on its agreement with BAA Airports Ltd to acquire London Gatwick Airport for approximately £1.5 billion. We also advised on GIP's £1.125 billion debt financing for the acquisition.

Marks and Spencer on the £200 million property-backed pre-funding of contributions for its pension scheme.

Lend Lease in connection with the development of Stratford City Olympic Village for the 2012 Olympics.

Cambridge Place Investment Management on the establishment of Crownstone European Properties and the associated acquisition of EUR 1.3 billion of European real estate.

PricewaterhouseCoopers on the pre-let of a 500,000 square foot office building at 7 More London.

Arsenal on the arrangements for its move to Emirates Stadium and the redevelopment of Highbury. The Arsenal Stadium has been nominated as Infrastructure Journal 's 'Deal of the Decade'.

Whitbread on the sale of David Lloyd Leisure for £925 million, the sale of the TGI Friday's business and on a number of hotel acquisitions in connection with the expansion of the Premier Inn brand, and on the sale of their interests in a 50/50 joint venture holding of 46 Marriott branded hotels for £951.4 million.

Punch Taverns on a number of major pubs, hotels and restaurant transactions including the refinancing of its Punch Taverns Finance securitisation. In recent years, we have acted for Punch and others on transactions involving over 8,000 pubs for an aggregate consideration of more than £10 billion.

Derwent London, on a number of acquisitions, disposals, lettings and tenancies, including the purchase of Central Cross on Tottenham Court Road for £146 million.