Louise Ward

Private wealth, real estate and construction, sport.

Louise handles general commercial property work, acting for a mix of investors, developers and corporate occupiers across a number of real estate sectors. She has developed particular expertise in advising new entrants to the UK real estate market, for both investment purposes and for their own occupational needs, and of managing large portfolio acquisitions. She also has wide experience of landlord and tenant matters and of project managing overseas transactions and foreign property portfolios. Experience: acted on a first UK acquisition by a Chinese insurer of an £800m trophy London building; acted for BioMed Realty on the acquisition of a multi-let science park with a value of approximately £130m and subsequently on management matters on the park; acted for the purchaser on a corporate-led acquisition and funding of an 80-property portfolio in the sport/leisure sector and co-ordinating the deal team; advised an investment client on the management and eventual £35m sale of a multi-tenanted London office building.