Commercial property: Manchester
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Kuit Steinart Levy LLP
Tim is a partner in the firm's commercial property team. Areas of Expertise Tim has extensive experience in dealing with sales, purchases and leases of commercial and residential property and corporate work. He now predominantly assists housebuilders and developers in securing and developing sites for commercial and residential development, including options to purchase, contracts subject to planning, development agreements, overage, planning & infrastructure agreements and sales of affordable housing to registered providers. To learn more about Kuits please click here.
Shoosmiths LLP
Emma is a real estate lawyer with over 20 years' experience of acting on a wide range of property transactions, with particular expertise in acting on investment acquisitions and development projects involving delivery of purpose-built student accommodation schemes, offices, hospital facilities, leisure facilities, business parks and residential and commercial mixed-use schemes. Her recent experience includes: acting on a 2.4 million square footage mixed-use office, retail and leisure scheme, including acting on one of the largest regional office deals recorded in 2021 and the largest in Manchester since 2020 advising on the forward sale and development of what (at that time) will be the most sustainable building in operation in Manchester City Centre acting on the acquisition of a 149-acre ex-colliery, including dealing with the complex site structure and financing acting for a cinema owner and operator on its UK portfolio and running the team servicing this client acting for different clients on a number of purpose-built student accommodation schemes, including dealing with the acquisition and financing Emma is named as a Rising Star in the Legal 500
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Pinsent Masons LLP
Pinsent Masons LLP
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Addleshaw Goddard
Catherine advises regulated businesses, developers and investors on the disposal, development, pre-letting and funding of a range of asset classes including regulated operational assets, logistics, offices and student accommodation. Catherine co-leads (with Jonathan Powling) the Logistics Sub-sector group at Addleshaw Goddard, which published the market leading 'How Soon is Now?' logisitcs report - gathering the views of leading investors, developers, occupiers and operators and setings out policy recommendations on how the logistics sector should respond to the current challenges and opportunities.Catherine also advises landlords and corporate occupiers on a range of landlord and tenant matters, leading teams to cost effectively manage property interests balancing the interests of landlord and occupier to ensure that institutional requirements are met whilst facilitating the occupiers' day to day business
Addleshaw Goddard
Vicky is a partner in the Real Estate department who has experience acting for a range of clients, specialising in institutional investor work. She is account manager for Standard Life Investments, advising in relation to all aspects of its property transactions, including development and funding, sales and acquisitions and management work. Vicky also works with regional developers, including Peel and has recently acted for Manchester City Council in its £1 billion joint venture to regenerate East Manchester
Kuit Steinart Levy LLP
Partner and head of commercial property, Nick specialises in property development (including site assembly, development agreements, forward funding and forward commitments, joint venture arrangements, construction and planning and infrastructure agreements), property acquisitions and disposals, and commercial landlord and tenant matters. Nick's clients include major plcs, together with many national and regional property development and investment companies. He advises across all practice areas, including the leisure, office, industrial and residential sectors. To learn more about Kuits please click here.
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Clyde & Co
Stephen is a partner head of the commercial real estate team at BLM. He carries out a wide range of property work, and has a particular interest in advising developers on the acquisition, funding, development, sale and letting of residential, commercial and mixed use developments. He also has substantial experience in advising on the sale of contaminated land for redevelopment and property transactions for charities.During his career he has advised private, public and third sector clients, including local, national and international companies, independent and state schools and social housing providers.
Brabners LLP
Pinsent Masons LLP
Jonathan is a partner and deals with a wide range of commercial property investment and development matters. This includes advising on investment acquisitions and disposals in various sectors (commercial, industrial, medical centre and student accommodation). He also acts on specialist property investment/development transactions involving enterprise zone sites and ‘golden contracts’, in addition to general development work involving developments in the residential, industrial, office and medical centre sectors.
DAC Beachcroft LLP
DAC Beachcroft LLP
Hill Dickinson LLP
Head of the national property and construction team, Jim joined Hill Dickinson’s rapidly-expanding Manchester property team from Pinsent Masons in May 2015 and in May 2017 became the first Manchester-based head of Hill Dickinson’s national property practice.Key sectors: logistics/industrial property; retailKey clients: DHL, Lookers Motor Group, EuroGarages, Williams Lea Taghttps://www.hilldickinson.com/people/jim-purves
Brabners LLP
Hill Dickinson LLP