Partner Co-head of Corporate

Victoria is the Co-head of Corporate, UK at CMS. She has been a corporate lawyer for over 20 years and specialises in corporatised real estate and fund formation.

She is a partner in our FIRA team and has advised on some of the highest value and complex transactions in this sector. She has extensive experience in advising managers and investors on the structuring, establishment and investment into large scale joint ventures, complicated structured real estate transactions (including private REITs) and real estate funds. She acts for a number of large international  investors looking to deploy capital into the UK and Europe.

She has experience in the establishment of off-shore structures including pan-European funds. She recently sold down the USAA./Mountpark logistics joint venture (which she established) to JP Morgan for in excess of £500m.

She has a particular interest in the student accommodation and co-living sector. Advising GIC and GSA on their establishment of a £700m student accommodation platform in the UK and Germany and Harrison Street and GSA on their platform in Spain. She established the ground-breaking first co-living Fund for DTZ in the UK and has advised Schroders on the launch of two funds within the beds sector.

Her clients include Aviva Investors, DTZ, Land Securities, The Crown Estate, GPIF, GSA, Schroders and UBS together with and a wide range of Asian based investor clients including GIC, BCDH, China Resources, Mitsui Fudosan, Hao Tian International Construction Investment Group and Cindat Capital.

English

Victoria is an active member of the IPF where she sits on the Indirect Committee

1999 - College of Law, Chester 1996 – University of Exeter (BA)

CMS Focusing on Funds - GDPR May 2018 CMS Focusing on Funds - Double trouble: Luxembourg and French double tax treaty June 2018 CMS Focusing on Funds – Tougher tax rules for German real estate July 2018 CMS Focusing on Funds – Responsibility and sustainability matters (ESG) September 2018 CMS Focusing on Funds – Changes for overseas owners of UK real estate October 2018