Commercial Real Estate

Our team advise across the board for developers on investment acquisitions, sales, refinances and estate management work for a range of clients, including private investment clients, residential/commercial developers, secured lenders (high street funders, challenger banks and private equity funds) and over 200 local authorities nationwide.

Work highlights

• Acting for Hornbeam Park Developments Limited in connection with the purchase of various significant residential and commercial development sites in and around Harrogate and all of their leasehold property management work and acquisition at James Street Harrogate for letting and investment.

• Advised the London Borough of Waltham Forest on two significant deals that form part of a strategic partnership with the University of Portsmouth, including a complex Development agreement for a property with an investor/ developer and also a sale of a property to a joint venture involving a developer and the University.

• Acting for Siemens Healthcare on a very significant deal for them which will see the construction of a specialist manufacturing facility for medical scanning equipment, together with global HQ. The deal value at the expiry of the development will be in excess of £200M in Oxford.

• Acquisition of a multi-million pound key site known as Teville Gate in Worthing on behalf of the Council, in order to unlock its potential redevelopment in the area. The transaction involved complex contract negotiation and title due diligence.

• Advising Endsleigh Park Limited on an acquisition of an investment property comprising of 132 residential units.

• Advised landowner, GICO Limited, on a 12-year lease deal agreed with Huddersfield-based, Black Cat Fireworks for a new central storage hub for 50,000 sq ft of warehousing space.

• Advised insolvency practitioners, Begbies Traynor, and its sister business Eddisons, on the lease of their new larger premises in Wellington Place, Leeds.

• Advised restaurant chain, John Smith & Company (Edinburgh) Limited, on the grant of a 15-year lease for new premises in Epsom, for its German Doner Kebab chain as part of the business’s ongoing redeployment of its commercial stock in the south of England.

• Advised Endure Fund on the property development loan to the owners of High Brockholme Farm to support the development of a new luxury wedding venue on a scenic North Yorkshire farm.

Meet the Commercial Real Estate Team

Deborah Powell Partner 0370 194 5487 | 07917 472896 deborah.powell@bevanbrittan.com

Simon Jackson Partner 0370 194 7778 simon.jackson@bevanbrittan.com

Matthew Walsh Senior Associate 0370 194 5482 | 07809 831434 matthew.walsh@bevanbrittan.com

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Giacheia

Paralegal 0370 774 2963 | 07825 854032 assil.giacheia@bevanbrittan.com

• Advising London Borough of Hackney, acting as a developer, on the redevelopment of two sites for a complex mixed-use project. The sites were developed to incorporate two schools, commercial and high-end residential use. We advised the authority throughout the entire project from due diligence, planning, construction, landlord and tenant, leases and finally plot sales.

• Advising investment company Westbrooke on a number of high value secured bridging facilities.

Chambers UK, 2023

Lyndon Campbell Partner 0370 194 5471 | 07801 271106 lyndon.campbell@bevanbrittan.com

Nick Thackray Partner 0370 194 5483 | 07500 005630 nick.thackray@bevanbrittan.com

Sherrie Roberts Legal Executive 0370 194 5485 sherrie.roberts@bevanbrittan.com