Shoosmiths LLP

Real Estate Midlands

Rhodri has extensive experience across a breadth of real estate work - investment, finance, development and energy / infrastructure - advising various stakeholders across the life cycle of property assets, including acquisition, lettings, funding and disposals.

Examples of the types of work Rhodri has undertaken include:

• • delivering the first strategic land acquisitions by a developer for substantial logistics developments, acting on their acquisition and pre-letting of a distribution hub development set to be the largest of its kind in Europe;
  • project managing the re-finance of a thirteen site, £160 million warehousing portfolio, with 70+ occupational leases;
  • advising a property investment / development company in securing a 229 acre site for the promotion and potential acquisition of land for c.8 million square feet of employment development, via a hybrid promotion / option agreement
  • acting for the UK's largest service area operator on the acquisition of substantial motorway service station site off the M25
  • managing the due diligence review of 100+ service station sites for a 'supermajor' oil & gas company on projects for potential re-development;
  • leading the property support on corporate acquisitions of windfarm portfolios for a global investment manager
  • advising lenders on an investment finance of £320 million UK wide portfolio acquisition, and a £43 million finance restructuring of a landmark resort/sporting venue pursuant to a Canadian corporate amalgamation;
  • disposals of substantial property portfolios for administrators and LPA Receivers, including shopping centres, hotels, marinas, retail and residential/mixed use developments;

Rhodri joined Shoosmiths in 2019, having previously worked at Eversheds Sutherland and Morgan Cole (now Blake Morgan).