Lawyers

Liz Aboud

Gateley Legal, North West

Work Department

Real estate.

Position

Liz’s experience includes development work, investment acquisitions and disposals, particularly in the retail and industrial sectors, and all aspects of non-contentious landlord and tenant and estate management work. She has led teams of lawyers dealing with multiple property portfolio transactions. Recent successes include acting for Listerhills SSV Limited, the developer/joint venture company (owned by the Hayaat Group and Welbeck Land Limited), in connection with the £40m student accommodation village at Listerhills, Bradford, including all aspects of securing grant funding, led a team of lawyers acting for a Manchester-based investor on the acquisition of 77 former Kwik Save sites from Somerfield plc and dealing thereafter with the disposal of the portfolio, led a team of lawyers dealing with the property aspects of a proposed float for Focus Wickes Limited, and subsequently its financial restructuring and led a team dealing with all property aspects of the sale by Focus Wickes Limited of the Wickes group of companies to Travis Perkins.