Shoosmiths LLP

Real Estate

Will is a Partner in real estate with wide experience of all transactional real estate matters, including extensive experience advising on:

investment sales and acquisitions for institutional investors; residential, commercial and mixed-use developments for developers; all aspects of portfolio management for commercial landlords and occupiers; and the real estate aspects of corporate and finance transactions.

His recent project experience includes advising:

on the £600m sale of two major designer retail outlets in Cheshire Oaks and Swindon; an institutional investor on a £90m multi-let retail sector disposal and a distressed shopping centre sale for £80m; a major house builder and commercial developer joint venture on a landmark city centre regeneration scheme; a listed residential developer on an agreement for a substantial rural housing scheme and construction of new secondary school; on the acquisition, ongoing asset management and potential mixed-use development of a regional shopping centre; and head office acquisitions and lease regears for several major corporate occupiers.

Will joined Shoosmiths' real estate practice in January 2019, having previously worked at PwC and Hogan Lovells.