Laura Wild
Bryan Cave Leighton PaisnerPraised for being ‘commercial and pragmatic’, the hotel and hospitality team at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner works with a host of clients across the UK, Europe and Middle East. The team leverages its global network to advise on the full lifecycle of large, multinational hotel projects projects, regularly demonstrating its capabilities in lease agreements, franchising, acquisitions and financing. The team is led by the ’amazing’ Laura Wild, who advises on hotel acquisitions and disposals, developments, financings, and branding agreements. Real estate specialist Chris de Pury regularly handles structured investments and disposals, joint ventures and developments, while Nazir Dewji focuses on non-contentious construction work, including procurement strategy and implementation, including the drafting and negotiation of procurement contracts for construction, engineering and facilities management projects. Charlotte Tullis is also recommended.
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‘The team is very responsive and work together to ensure relevant deadlines are met. All of the team are very personable and are willing to go the extra mile for their client. ’
‘While they can be compromising and fair, they are not averse to pushing back against some of the aggressive approaches of other firms and are not interested in point scoring, but rather just to get the deal done to the best interests of the client. '
‘Laura Wild has worked with us over many years and numerous deals. We very much treat Laura as one of our team, such is the level of faith we place in her. We invariably ask her advice on what route to take and immediately feel comfortable with the proposal. She knows how we as an organisation tick and speaks our language.’
‘BCLP in my view are the strongest hospitality practice in London. BCLP has always been seen by the business as user friendly, knowledgeable and commercially sharp. They have been proactive in introducing us to their wider team which is a sign of confidence in their product - who have been very helpful in giving commercial insight.’
‘Very commercial and pragmatic in their legal advice. Always on hand and available at short notice and always trying to drive forward a robust and sound legal solution.’
‘Charlotte Tullis is one to watch.’
‘The team is very approachable, professional, available any time of the day and deals with all concerns we may have as clients. Their knowledge and minute detail on looking at everything provides us with confidence we are in very good hands. We get the best advise in all matters. Very pleased with them and I always highly recommend them to everyone I know that need great lawyers.’
‘Laura is absolutely amazing, she is the best, she is always there for us, even if we just need an answer on a small matter she is always available and very quick to respond. But like Laura the other individual team members have always treated us as clients with so much attention and care, we never have to chase on anything, they always are there dealing with issues we face. ’
Key clients
- Tristan Capital Partners
- Deliveroo
- Wolseley Hospitality Group
Work highlights
- Advising Tristan Capital Partners on the acquisition of an office building located on St Andrew Square.
- Advising Wolseley Hospitality Group, in respect of its portfolio London restaurants.
- Advising Deliveroo on the UK and global roll-out of its Editions and Hop businesses.
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Laura Wild