Sarah Sivyour
AshurstAshurst's full-service corporate occupiers offering counts asset management, market leading acquisitions and disposals, and real estate finance within its scope of work. Acting for investment banks, developers, and real estate funds, and for landlords and tenants alike, the group also handles the acquisition and leasing of office headquarter buildings and green lease drafting. The team is collectively led by Sarah Sivyour, transactional real estate expert who handles the sale and leaseback of real estate portfolios, Richard Vernon, who is lauded for his strengths in real estate sustainability work, and David Jones, who concentrates on the global real estate investment market.
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‘They make the effort from the outset to understand the commercial drivers and goals to help them tailor their advice and input to helping achieve solutions.’
‘Ashurst are more than a legal service provider, they have become a trusted business partner after more than a decade of working together. They provide high quality commercial advice, their drafting is exceptional and they turn around documents promptly. They offer great training and go above and beyond to ensure they provide a fantastic service.'
Key clients
- La Francaise
- Savills
- Deutsche Bank
- Oxford Properties
- Lendlease Group
- Invesco
- Barings
- H&M
- Panattoni
- McLaren Group
- Ballymore
- CDLHT
- Intermediate Capital Group
- Cain International
- Stanhope
- Almacantar
- British Land
- Tritax Group
- Qatari Diar
- Hines
Work highlights
- Advised CLSA UK on its London headquarters move from Moor House to newly constructed space at 8 Bishopsgate the most sustainable newly constructed office building in the UK.
- Advised Invesco on its London headquarters move from Portman Square to a new space in 60 London Wall.
- Advised Kyndryl UK on the surrender and regrant of its London headquarters on the second floor of 100 Liverpool Street.
Lawyers
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Richard Vernon
AshurstPractice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Sarah Sivyour, David Jones, Richard Vernon