Shoosmiths LLP

Partner, Real Estate

With a focus on commercial real estate development and funding, Jason has a strong track record advising on UK regeneration projects, mixed use office and commercial development, logistics and warehousing.

He advises clients on site acquisitions, pre-lets and forward funding arrangements with pension funds and investors, together with joint venture arrangements between developers and property-led corporate transactions.

Recent projects where Jason has advised include:

• advising one of the developer parties involved in the first-phase preparations for a 175 acre regeneration project for a logistics park in the West Midlands
• advising on the acquisition pre-let and forward funding of the largest (2020) automated parcel delivery in Europe based in the North of England
• Advising on acquisition development sale on the a 2.2m Amazon facility in the UK
• Advising on the site assembly and development of a 2m square foot logistics park in the UK
• the £98 million investment sale of 55 Colmore Row, Birmingham, following a back-to-frame £32 million re-development completed just eight months earlier.

Jason leads the Midlands region with teams in Birmingham and Nottingham

Jason trained and qualified at a national firm before joining Shoosmiths in 2004.

Giggleswick School, North Yorkshire; Aston University (1988 BSc Hons 2(1)); De Montfort University (1992 CPE; 1993 LPC Commendation).

Rugby and shooting.