Real estates and projects

A real estate lawyer with interests in investment, development and asset management, Catriona acts for domestic and international clients including developers, investors, landlords, tenants, and operators.  She has an appetite for complex transactions and structures and enjoys being able to solve a problem.

Catriona has acted on a broad variety of matters, from the acquisition and development of luxury hotels to advising through the full life cycle of Central London office properties.  She has experience dealing with out-of-town business parks and with the repurposing of big-box stores and vacant industrial premises; she has taken a portfolio of logistics and industrial warehouses from site assembly through finance, development and leasing, and on to disposal. She enjoys handling transactions through the use of corporate structures (domestic and offshore), including joint ventures and corporate acquisitions & disposals.

She has assisted with turning television studios into residential developments, and has worked on airports, refineries, pipelines, office towers and holiday parks.

She deals with regeneration and development projects, acting for private investors and for sponsors in conjunction with public bodies and institutional lenders.  She has also advised parties within the rail industry in connection with developments of, and around, rail depots and stations.

Catriona also regularly advises on the real estate aspects of private equity investments, and assists companies in taking up office space, moving offices and other aspects of their occupational needs.