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.